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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated July 27, 2026

Smartest
Best open model
GLM-5.2 (max)Z AI51.1Intelligence
Best value
Qwen3.5 4B (Reasoning)Alibaba335 pts/$Value
Best from China
Kimi K3Kimi57.1Intelligence
Top three open models
1GLM-5.2 (max)Z AI · #13 overall51.1
2MiniMax-M3MiniMax · #20 overall44.4
3DeepSeek V4 Pro (Reasoning, Max Effort)DeepSeek · #21 overall44.3
This week's changes
claude-opus-5-maxCoding · #1New
Reve 2.1Image · #2New
MiniMax H3Video · #2New
qwen3.8-maxCoding · #4New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines40.7$2.6881.8 s
2—Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA37.8$1.21961.2 s
3—Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant29.4$0.000351.0 s
4—Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant25.7$0.20——
5—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA25.4$0.381871.6 s
6—gpt-oss-120b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant23.8$0.262910.9 s
7—Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant21.8$0.151102.4 s
8▲ 1Apriel-v1.5-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow21.2$0.000——
9▲ 1Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow20.5$0.000——
10▼ 2Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA17.6———
11—Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA14.9$0.133190.9 s
12—gpt-oss-20b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant14.9$0.0951940.8 s
13—Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta14.3$0.421080.9 s
14—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant14.2$0.0881351.4 s
15—DiffusionGemma 26B A4BOpenGoogle13.5———
16▲ 1Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.4$0.40817.5 s
17▲ 1Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.2———
18▼ 2Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant11.9$0.040920.8 s
19—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta10.0$0.301010.8 s
20▲ 1Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant9.5———
21▼ 1Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta9.4$0.62861.6 s
22—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA9.1$0.90532.3 s
23—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant9.0$0.30834.7 s
24—Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM8.9———
25—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.8$0.070796.0 s
26—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA8.7———
27—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA8.5———
28—Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta8.5$4.4——
29—LFM2.5-8B-A1BOpenLiquid AI8.3$0.0003364.6 s
30—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA7.6$1.2817.0 s
31—Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta7.6$0.0791420.9 s
32—Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle7.4$0.000——
33—Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta6.8$0.56561.6 s
34—Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM6.7$0.0631120.8 s
35—R1 1776OpenPerplexity6.3———
36—Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta6.2$2.0——
37—Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft6.0$0.000450.8 s
38—Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle5.5$0.000——
39—Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM5.2$0.1140710 s
40—LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI4.9———
41—Phi-4OpenMicrosoft4.9$0.22——
42—Granite 4.1 3BOpenIBM4.7———
43—Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft4.6———
44—Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle4.6———
45—Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft4.5$0.000180.8 s
46—Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta4.3$0.10——
47—Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta4.2———
48—Llama 3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta3.5$1.2——
49—Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake3.4———
50—Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B (Vision)OpenMeta3.3$0.3662.5 s

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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