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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated August 10, 2026

Smartest
Best open model
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi59.7Intelligence
Best value
Hy3-preview (Reasoning)Tencent345 pts/$Value
Best from China
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi59.7Intelligence
Top three open models
1Kimi K3 (max)Kimi · #4 overall59.7
2GLM-5.2 (max)Z AI · #15 overall52.6
This week's changes
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusSpeech · #2New
Qwen3.8 MaxIntelligence · #5New
grok-4.6-highCoding · #5New
Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)Intelligence · #7New
gemini-3.7-flash-highCoding · #8New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines42.3$1.8771.8 s
2—Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines41.2$0.521441.6 s
3—Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA38.3$1.11712.1 s
4—Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant29.7$0.000351.1 s
5—Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant26.1$0.20——
6—Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA25.7$0.351381.8 s
7—gpt-oss-120b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant24.1$0.261750.9 s
8—Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant22.3$0.151052.4 s
9—Apriel-v1.5-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow21.6$0.000——
10—Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow20.8$0.000——
11—Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA18.0———
12▲ 1gpt-oss-20b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant15.2$0.0931341.0 s
13▼ 1Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA15.0$0.133211.0 s
14▲ 1NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant14.5$0.0882391.2 s
15▼ 1Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta14.5$0.421361.0 s
16—DiffusionGemma 26B A4BOpenGoogle13.8———
17—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.4$0.401304.2 s
18▲ 1Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant12.4$0.040770.9 s
19▼ 1Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.2———
20—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta10.3$0.301050.8 s
21—Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant9.8———
22—Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta9.3$0.67811.7 s
23▲ 2Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM8.9———
24▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA8.9$0.90522.4 s
25▲ 2NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA8.8———
26▼ 2NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.8$0.301004.8 s
27▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.7$0.0701474.6 s
28—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA8.4———
29—Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta8.3———
30—LFM2.5-8B-A1BOpenLiquid AI8.1$0.0003331.9 s
31▲ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta7.8$0.0281430.9 s
32▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA7.4$1.21145.0 s
33—Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle7.4$0.000——
34—Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta6.5$0.56641.6 s
35—Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM6.4$0.063860.8 s
36▲ 2Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft6.2$0.000430.8 s
37▼ 1R1 1776OpenPerplexity6.0———
38▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta6.0———
39—Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle5.5$0.000——
40—Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM4.9$0.114511 s
41▲ 2Granite 4.1 3BOpenIBM4.7———
42▼ 1LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI4.6———
43▼ 1Phi-4OpenMicrosoft4.6$0.22——
44—Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft4.3———
45—Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle4.2———
46—Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft4.2$0.000180.8 s
47—Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta3.9$0.10——
48—Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta3.9———
49—Llama 3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta3.1$1.2——
50—Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake3.0———

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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