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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated August 24, 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 · #8 overall57.7
This week's changes
hy4-previewCoding · #5New
GLM-5.3 (max)Intelligence · #6New
MAI-Image-2.5-ProImage · #7New
qwen3.8-flash-nextCoding · #8New
glm-5.3-flashCoding · #11New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines42.3$1.8512.7 s
2—Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines41.2$0.521312.0 s
3—Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA38.3$1.11681.6 s
4—Muse Glimmer (high)OpenMeta35.1$0.581040.8 s
5—Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant29.7$0.000351.1 s
6—Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant26.1$0.18——
7—Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA25.7$0.351421.8 s
8—gpt-oss-120b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant24.1$0.261840.8 s
9—Nemotron 3.5 LightningOpenNVIDIA23.6$0.113151.6 s
10—Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant22.2$0.151122.3 s
11—Apriel-v1.5-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow21.6$0.000——
12—Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow20.8$0.000——
13—Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA17.8———
14—gpt-oss-20b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant15.2$0.0931161.0 s
15—Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA15.0$0.133241.0 s
16—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant14.5$0.0882721.1 s
17—Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta14.5$0.42990.9 s
18—DiffusionGemma 26B A4BOpenGoogle13.5———
19—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.4$0.407314 s
20—Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant12.2———
21—Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant12.2$0.040460.8 s
22NewLFM2.5-2.6BOpenLiquid AI11.0$0.000——
23▼ 1Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta10.3$0.301350.8 s
24▼ 1Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant9.5———
25▼ 1Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta9.3$0.67891.6 s
26▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA8.9$0.90522.4 s
27▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.8$0.301154.9 s
28▼ 1Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM8.7———
29▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.7$0.0702183.9 s
30▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA8.6———
31▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA8.4———
32▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta8.3———
33▼ 1LFM2.5-8B-A1BOpenLiquid AI8.1$0.0003391.8 s
34▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA7.4$1.2924.0 s
35▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta7.4$0.0281400.9 s
36▼ 1Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle7.4$0.000——
37▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta6.5$0.56591.3 s
38▼ 1Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM6.4$0.0631240.8 s
39▼ 1R1 1776OpenPerplexity6.0———
40▼ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta6.0———
41▼ 1Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft5.7$0.000430.8 s
42▼ 1Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle5.5$0.000——
43▼ 1Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM4.9$0.112124 s
44▼ 1LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI4.6———
45▼ 1Phi-4OpenMicrosoft4.6$0.22422.5 s
46▼ 1Granite 4.1 3BOpenIBM4.4———
47▼ 1Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft4.3———
48▼ 1Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle4.2———
49▼ 1Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft4.2$0.000180.8 s
50▼ 1Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta3.9$0.10——

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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