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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated September 30, 2025

Smartest
GPT-5 (high)OpenAI68.5Intelligence
Best open model
gpt-oss-120B (high)OpenAI58.0Intelligence
Best value
Gemma 3n E4B InstructGoogle620 pts/$Value
Best from China
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (Reasoning)DeepSeek57.7Intelligence
Top three by Intelligence
1GPT-5 (high)OpenAI68.5
2GPT-5 Codex (high)OpenAI67.6
3o3OpenAI65.5
Top three open models
1gpt-oss-120B (high)OpenAI · #12 overall58.0
2DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (Reasoning)DeepSeek · #13 overall57.7
3Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba · #14 overall57.5
This week's changes
GPT-5 Codex (high)Intelligence · #2New
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning)Intelligence · #7New
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (Reasoning)Intelligence · #13New
Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 InstructIntelligence · #39New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—gpt-oss-120B (high)OpenOpenAI58.0$0.26——
2—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant45.2$0.18——
3—gpt-oss-20B (high)OpenOpenAI43.3$0.088——
4—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA38.5$0.90——
5—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant36.9$0.070——
6—Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta35.8$0.39——
7—Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant35.5$0.000——
8—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta28.1$0.26——
9—Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta27.9$0.57——
10—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA26.1$0.000——
11—Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta25.7$3.5——
12—Grok 2 (Dec '24)OpenxAI24.7$0.000——
13—Phi-4OpenMicrosoft Azure24.6$0.22——
14—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA23.6$0.60——
15—Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta22.6$0.76——
16—Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle21.6$0.000——
17—Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle20.4$0.24——
18—R1 1776OpenPerplexity19.1$3.5——
19—Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta18.9$0.72——
20—Grok-1OpenxAI18.2$0.000——
21—Gemma 2 27BOpenGoogle17.2$0.000——
22—Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta16.9$0.10——
23—Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft Azure15.7$0.000——
24▲ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B (Vision)OpenMeta15.5$0.16——
25▼ 1Gemma 3n E4B InstructOpenGoogle15.5$0.025——
26NewGranite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)OpenIBM15.2$0.085——
27—Gemma 3 4B InstructOpenGoogle14.7$0.050——
28—Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft Azure13.1$0.23——
29—Llama 3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta13.0$0.75——
30—Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle12.5$0.000——
31—Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft Azure12.4$0.000——
32NewLFM2 2.6BOpenLiquid AI11.8$0.000——
33▼ 1Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta11.3$0.10——
34▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta11.2$0.048——
35▼ 1Phi-3 Medium Instruct 14BOpenMicrosoft Azure10.1$0.30——
36▼ 1LFM2 1.2BOpenLiquid AI8.0$0.000——
37▼ 1Gemma 3n E2B InstructOpenGoogle8.0$0.000——
38▼ 1Gemma 2 9BOpenGoogle7.8$0.20——
39▼ 1Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake7.6$0.000——
40▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 1BOpenMeta7.1$0.053——
41▼ 1Llama 3 Instruct 8BOpenMeta7.0$0.055——
42▼ 1Gemma 3 1B InstructOpenGoogle6.1$0.000——
43▼ 1Llama 2 Chat 70BOpenMeta5.6$0.000——
44▼ 1Llama 2 Chat 13BOpenMeta5.5$0.000——
45▼ 1DBRX InstructOpenDatabricks5.3$0.000——
46▼ 1Llama 65BOpenMeta1.0$0.000——

Intelligence over time

Each maker's best model at the time on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, by the month it was released.

Gained most · Anthropic +57.2Highest now · Anthropic 64.6Gap between highest and lowest 18.1 ptsTime range Nov 2025 – Nov 2026
64.6Anthropic60.0Google56.9OpenAI50.1Meta46.5Kimi

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