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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated August 17, 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 · #5 overall59.7
2Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BAlibaba · #7 overall57.7
This week's changes
Sonic 3.6Speech · #1New
Grok 4.6 (high)Intelligence · #4New
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BIntelligence · #7New
glm-5.3-maxCoding · #8New
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProImage · #8New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines42.3$1.8841.7 s
2—Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines41.2$0.52641.8 s
3—Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA38.3$1.11401.8 s
4NewMuse Glimmer (high)OpenMeta35.1$0.581110.9 s
5▼ 1Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant29.7$0.000361.1 s
6▼ 1Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant26.1$0.20——
7▼ 1Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA25.7$0.351321.9 s
8▼ 1gpt-oss-120b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant24.1$0.261770.8 s
9NewNemotron 3.5 LightningOpenNVIDIA23.6$0.0882981.0 s
10▼ 2Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant22.2$0.151102.3 s
11▼ 2Apriel-v1.5-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow21.6$0.000——
12▼ 2Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow20.8$0.000——
13▼ 2Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA17.8———
14▼ 2gpt-oss-20b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant15.2$0.0931251.0 s
15▼ 2Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA15.0$0.133241.1 s
16▼ 2NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant14.5$0.0882191.3 s
17▼ 2Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta14.5$0.421211.0 s
18▼ 2DiffusionGemma 26B A4BOpenGoogle13.5———
19▼ 2Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.4$0.401153.8 s
20▼ 1Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.2———
21▼ 3Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant12.2$0.040501.0 s
22▼ 2Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta10.3$0.301360.8 s
23▼ 2Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant9.5———
24▼ 2Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta9.3$0.67901.6 s
25▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA8.9$0.90532.5 s
26—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.8$0.301383.7 s
27▼ 4Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM8.7———
28▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.7$0.0701753.8 s
29▼ 4NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA8.6———
30▼ 2Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA8.4———
31▼ 2Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta8.3———
32▼ 2LFM2.5-8B-A1BOpenLiquid AI8.1$0.0003362.0 s
33▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA7.4$1.21263.5 s
34▼ 3Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta7.4$0.0281360.9 s
35▼ 2Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle7.4$0.000——
36▼ 2Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta6.5$0.56561.4 s
37▼ 2Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM6.4$0.0631120.8 s
38▼ 1R1 1776OpenPerplexity6.0———
39▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta6.0———
40▼ 4Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft5.7$0.000440.9 s
41▼ 2Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle5.5$0.000——
42▼ 2Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM4.9$0.112224 s
43▼ 1LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI4.6———
44▼ 1Phi-4OpenMicrosoft4.6$0.22253.1 s
45▼ 4Granite 4.1 3BOpenIBM4.4———
46▼ 2Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft4.3———
47▼ 2Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle4.2———
48▼ 2Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft4.2$0.000180.8 s
49▼ 2Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta3.9$0.10——
50▼ 2Llama 3.2 Instruct 3BOpenMeta3.9———

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 “—”.