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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated May 8, 2026

Smartest
GPT-5.5 (xhigh)OpenAI60.2Intelligence
Best open model
Kimi K2.6Kimi53.9Intelligence
Best value
Qwen3.5 0.8B (Reasoning)Alibaba526 pts/$Value
Best from China
Kimi K2.6Kimi53.9Intelligence
Top three by Intelligence
1GPT-5.5 (xhigh)OpenAI60.2
Top three open models
1Kimi K2.6Kimi · #5 overall53.9
2MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi · #6 overall53.8
3DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort)DeepSeek · #13 overall51.5
This week's changes
StepAudio 2.5 TTSSpeech · #3New
Bach-1.0 PreviewVideo · #7New
SIMBA 3.0Speech · #7New
qwen3.6-max-previewCoding · #9New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant39.2$0.000361.7 s
2—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA36.0$0.411741.2 s
3—gpt-oss-120B (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant33.3$0.262430.9 s
4—Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant31.2$0.20——
5—Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA28.4———
6—gpt-oss-20B (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant24.5$0.0882620.7 s
7—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant24.3$0.0961881.5 s
8NewNemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA21.4$0.133220.9 s
9▼ 1Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant18.8$0.54561.7 s
10▼ 1Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant18.7$0.18461.6 s
11▼ 1Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant18.5———
12▼ 1Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta18.4$0.481071.0 s
13▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta17.4$3.7302.4 s
14▼ 1Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant15.2———
15▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA15.0$0.90412.6 s
16▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant14.9$0.301281.1 s
17▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant14.8$0.0701211.1 s
18▼ 1Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM14.7———
19▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA14.7———
20▼ 1Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta14.5$0.62771.5 s
21▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA14.4———
22▼ 1Grok 2 (Dec '24)OpenxAI13.9———
23▼ 1Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta13.5$0.291420.8 s
24▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA13.4$1.2371.7 s
25▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta12.5$0.56331.7 s
26▼ 1Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM12.4$0.063920.9 s
27▼ 1R1 1776OpenPerplexity12.0———
28▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta11.9$1.4581.2 s
29▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta11.8$0.101550.9 s
30▼ 1Grok-1OpenxAI11.7———
31▼ 1Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM10.8$0.1124310 s
32▼ 1LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI10.5$0.053730.6 s
33▼ 1Phi-4OpenMicrosoft10.4$0.22352.1 s
34▼ 1Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle10.3$0.14262.0 s
35▼ 1Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft10.1———
36▼ 1Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle10.1———
37▼ 1Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft10.0$0.000171.1 s
38▼ 1Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta9.7$0.10——
39▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta9.7$0.15511.1 s
40▼ 1Llama 3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta8.9$1.2——
41▼ 1Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake8.8———
42▼ 1Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle8.8$0.14252.4 s
43▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B (Vision)OpenMeta8.7$0.25490.9 s
44▼ 1Granite 4.1 3BOpenIBM8.5———
45▼ 1Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft8.4$0.000440.8 s
46▼ 1Llama 2 Chat 70BOpenMeta8.4———
47▼ 1Llama 2 Chat 13BOpenMeta8.4———
48▼ 1DBRX InstructOpenDatabricks8.3———
49▼ 1LFM2.5-1.2B-ThinkingOpenLiquid AI8.1———
50▼ 1LFM2 2.6BOpenLiquid AI8.0$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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