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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated December 16, 2025

Smartest
Gemini 3 Pro Preview (high)Google72.9Intelligence
Best open model
Kimi K2 ThinkingKimi67.0Intelligence
Best value
Gemma 3n E4B InstructGoogle620 pts/$Value
Best from China
Kimi K2 ThinkingKimi67.0Intelligence
Top three by Intelligence
2GPT-5.2 (xhigh)OpenAI72.6
Top three open models
1Kimi K2 ThinkingKimi · #7 overall67.0
2DeepSeek V3.2 (Reasoning)DeepSeek · #9 overall65.9
3MiniMax-M2MiniMax · #19 overall61.4
This week's changes
GPT-5.2 (xhigh)Intelligence · #2New
gemini-3-flashCoding · #4New
deepseek-v3.2-thinkingCoding · #12New
Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerIntelligence · #31New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—gpt-oss-120B (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant60.5$0.26——
2NewApriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow57.0$0.000——
3▼ 1gpt-oss-20B (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant52.1$0.10——
4NewNVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA51.8$0.11——
5▼ 2Apriel-v1.5-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow51.6$0.000——
6▼ 2Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant45.2$0.18——
7▼ 2NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant40.7$0.30——
8▼ 2Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA38.5$0.90——
9▼ 2NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant37.2$0.070——
10▼ 2Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta35.8$0.42——
11▼ 2Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant35.5$0.000——
12▼ 2Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta28.1$0.24——
13▼ 2Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta28.1$4.5——
14▼ 2Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta27.9$0.61——
15▼ 2Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA26.1$0.000——
16▼ 2Grok 2 (Dec '24)OpenxAI24.7$4.0——
17▼ 2Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA23.6$0.60——
18▼ 2Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM22.7$0.11——
19▼ 2Phi-4OpenMicrosoft Azure22.7$0.22——
20▼ 2Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta22.6$0.56——
21▼ 2Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle22.2$0.000——
22▼ 2Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle20.4$0.000——
23▼ 2R1 1776OpenPerplexity19.1$0.000——
24▼ 2Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta18.9$0.72——
25▼ 2Grok-1OpenxAI18.2$0.000——
26▼ 2LFM2 8B A1BOpenLiquid AI17.4$0.000——
27▼ 2Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta16.9$0.10——
28▼ 2Granite 4.0 MicroOpenIBM16.2$0.000——
29▼ 2Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft Azure15.7$0.000——
30▼ 2Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B (Vision)OpenMeta15.5$0.16——
31▼ 2Gemma 3n E4B InstructOpenGoogle15.5$0.025——
32▼ 2Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)OpenIBM15.2$0.085——
33▼ 2Gemma 3 4B InstructOpenGoogle14.7$0.000——
34▼ 2Phi-3 Medium Instruct 14BOpenMicrosoft Azure14.4$0.30——
35▼ 2Granite 4.0 H 1BOpenIBM13.7$0.000——
36▼ 2Granite 4.0 1BOpenIBM13.3$0.000——
37▼ 2Llama 3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta13.0$0.71——
38▼ 2Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft Azure12.7$0.23——
39▼ 2Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle12.5$0.000——
40▼ 2Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft Azure12.4$0.000——
41▼ 2LFM2 2.6BOpenLiquid AI11.8$0.000——
42▼ 2Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta11.3$0.10——
43▼ 2Gemma 3n E2B InstructOpenGoogle11.3$0.000——
44▼ 2Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta11.2$0.060——
45▼ 2LFM2 1.2BOpenLiquid AI9.7$0.000——
46▼ 2Llama 3.2 Instruct 1BOpenMeta8.9$0.053——
47▼ 2Granite 4.0 H 350MOpenIBM8.2$0.000——
48▼ 2Granite 4.0 350MOpenIBM7.7$0.000——
49▼ 2Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake7.6$0.000——
50▼ 2Llama 3 Instruct 8BOpenMeta7.0$0.073——

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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