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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated May 22, 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
Qwen3.7 MaxAlibaba56.6Intelligence
Top three by Intelligence
1GPT-5.5 (xhigh)OpenAI60.2
Top three open models
1Kimi K2.6Kimi · #7 overall53.9
2MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi · #8 overall53.8
3DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort)DeepSeek · #15 overall51.5
This week's changes
Sonic 3.5Speech · #1New
Qwen3.7 MaxIntelligence · #5New
Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)Intelligence · #6New
gemini-3.5-flashCoding · #7New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant39.2$0.000351.7 s
2—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA36.0$0.411771.2 s
3—gpt-oss-120b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant33.3$0.262530.9 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$0.0882390.8 s
7—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant24.3$0.0961501.4 s
8—Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA21.4$0.133011.0 s
9—Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant18.8———
10—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant18.7$0.18501.3 s
11—Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant18.5———
12—Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta18.4$0.481081.1 s
13—Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta17.4$3.7532.4 s
14—Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant15.2———
15—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA15.0$0.90412.6 s
16—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant14.9$0.30——
17—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant14.8$0.0701150.6 s
18—Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM14.7———
19—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA14.7———
20—Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta14.5$0.62801.7 s
21—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA14.4———
22—Grok 2 (Dec '24)OpenxAI13.9———
23—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta13.5$0.291190.9 s
24—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA13.4$1.22870.5 s
25—Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta12.5$0.56321.9 s
26—Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM12.4$0.0631140.8 s
27—R1 1776OpenPerplexity12.0———
28—Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta11.9$1.4581.3 s
29—Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta11.8$0.101550.8 s
30—Grok-1OpenxAI11.7———
31—Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM10.8$0.1138810 s
32—LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI10.5$0.0532090.6 s
33—Phi-4OpenMicrosoft10.4$0.22182.5 s
34—Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle10.3$0.14——
35—Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft10.1———
36—Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle10.1———
37—Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft10.0$0.000160.9 s
38—Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta9.7$0.10——
39—Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta9.7$0.15511.2 s
40—Llama 3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta8.9$1.2——
41—Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake8.8———
42—Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle8.8$0.14——
43—Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B (Vision)OpenMeta8.7$0.25480.8 s
44—Granite 4.1 3BOpenIBM8.5———
45—Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft8.4$0.000——
46—Llama 2 Chat 70BOpenMeta8.4———
47—Llama 2 Chat 13BOpenMeta8.4———
48—DBRX InstructOpenDatabricks8.3———
49—LFM2.5-1.2B-ThinkingOpenLiquid AI8.1———
50—LFM2 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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