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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated August 3, 2026

Smartest
Best open model
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi57.1Intelligence
Best value
Qwen3.5 4B (Reasoning)Alibaba335 pts/$Value
Best from China
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi57.1Intelligence
Top three open models
1Kimi K3 (max)Kimi · #4 overall57.1
2GLM-5.2 (max)Z AI · #13 overall51.1
This week's changes
muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)Coding · #13New
gemini-3.5-flash-highCoding · #25New
Inkling SmallIntelligence · #36New
Celeris-1Intelligence · #221New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines40.7$2.6841.8 s
2NewInkling SmallOpenThinking Machines40.2$0.521021.7 s
3▼ 1Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA37.8$1.21621.5 s
4▼ 1Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant29.4$0.000351.1 s
5▼ 1Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant25.7$0.20——
6▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA25.4$0.351421.8 s
7▼ 1gpt-oss-120b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant23.8$0.262120.8 s
8▼ 1Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant21.8$0.151092.3 s
9▼ 1Apriel-v1.5-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow21.2$0.000——
10▼ 1Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow20.5$0.000——
11▼ 1Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA17.6———
12▼ 1Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA14.9$0.133091.0 s
13▼ 1gpt-oss-20b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant14.9$0.102171.0 s
14▼ 1Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta14.3$0.421080.9 s
15▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant14.2$0.0882801.1 s
16▼ 1DiffusionGemma 26B A4BOpenGoogle13.5———
17▼ 1Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.4$0.401074.6 s
18▼ 1Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.2———
19▼ 1Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant12.2$0.040860.8 s
20▼ 1Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta10.0$0.301290.8 s
21▼ 1Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant9.7———
22▼ 1Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta9.4$0.63841.6 s
23▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA9.1$0.90522.3 s
24▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant9.0$0.301084.4 s
25▼ 1Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM8.9———
26▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.8$0.0702254.0 s
27▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA8.7———
28▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA8.5———
29▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta8.5$4.4——
30▼ 1LFM2.5-8B-A1BOpenLiquid AI8.3$0.0003372.5 s
31▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA7.6$1.21055.6 s
32▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta7.6$0.0791430.9 s
33▼ 1Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle7.4$0.000——
34▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta6.8$0.56631.4 s
35▼ 1Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM6.7$0.0631060.8 s
36▼ 1R1 1776OpenPerplexity6.3———
37▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta6.2———
38▼ 1Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft6.0$0.000440.8 s
39▼ 1Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle5.5$0.000——
40▼ 1Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM5.2$0.114910 s
41▼ 1LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI4.9———
42▼ 1Phi-4OpenMicrosoft4.9$0.22——
43▼ 1Granite 4.1 3BOpenIBM4.7———
44▼ 1Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft4.6———
45▼ 1Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle4.6———
46▼ 1Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft4.5$0.000180.8 s
47▼ 1Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta4.3$0.10——
48▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta4.2———
49▼ 1Llama 3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta3.5$1.2——
50▼ 1Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake3.4———

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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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.