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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated September 7, 2026

Best open model
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi50.2Intelligence
Best value
Hy3-preview (Reasoning)Tencent268 pts/$Value
Best from China
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi50.2Intelligence
Top three open models
1Kimi K3 (max)Kimi · #8 overall50.2
2GLM-5.3 (max)Z AI · #9 overall48.6
3Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BAlibaba · #15 overall46.7
This week's changes
GPT-6 Astra (max)Intelligence · #2New
MAI-Image-2.6Image · #2New
Realtime TTS-2Speech · #2New
Muse Spark 1.3 (max)Intelligence · #5New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1▲ 1Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines32.2$0.521252.0 s
2▼ 1Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines32.2$1.8722.6 s
3—Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA29.3$1.11662.3 s
4—Muse Glimmer (high)OpenMeta24.4$0.641021.0 s
5—Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant22.2$0.000351.0 s
6—Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant19.2$0.18——
7—Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA18.6$0.351412.0 s
8▲ 1Granite 4.2 30BOpenIBM16.5$0.28591.2 s
9▲ 1Nemotron 3.5 LightningOpenNVIDIA16.4$0.0952920.6 s
10▼ 2gpt-oss-120b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant15.6$0.261890.8 s
11—Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant15.6$0.151132.3 s
12—Apriel-v1.5-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow15.0$0.000——
13—Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow14.3$0.000——
14—Granite 4.2 8BOpenIBM13.9$0.111200.6 s
15—Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA11.5———
16▲ 4Granite 4.2 3BOpenIBM10.7$0.0532050.5 s
17▼ 1gpt-oss-20b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant9.1$0.0932080.7 s
18▼ 1Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA9.0$0.133251.1 s
19▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.6$0.0881661.4 s
20▼ 1Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta8.5$0.42860.9 s
21—DiffusionGemma 26B A4BOpenGoogle7.6———
22—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant6.6$0.402317 s
23—Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant6.4———
24—Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant6.4$0.040390.9 s
25—LFM2.5-2.6BOpenLiquid AI5.3$0.0002012.2 s
26—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta4.6$0.31950.8 s
27—Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant4.0———
28—Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta3.7$0.67911.6 s
29—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA3.4$0.90522.4 s
30—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant3.3$0.301811 s
31—Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM3.2———
32—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant3.2$0.070975.3 s
33—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA3.1———
34—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA2.9———
35—Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta2.9———
36—LFM2.5-8B-A1BOpenLiquid AI2.7$0.000——
37—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA2.1$1.21512 s
38—Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta2.0$0.0281420.8 s
39—Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle2.0$0.000——
40—Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta1.2$0.56651.6 s
41—Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM1.1$0.0631010.8 s
42▲ 14Arctic InstructOpenSnowflake1.0———
42▲ 18DBRX InstructOpenDatabricks1.0———
42▲ 3Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle1.0$0.000——
42▲ 29Gemma 3 1B InstructOpenGoogle1.0$0.000——
42▲ 23Gemma 3 270MOpenGoogle1.0———
42▲ 29Gemma 3 4B InstructOpenGoogle1.0$0.000——
42▲ 29Gemma 3n E2B InstructOpenGoogle1.0$0.000——
42▲ 29Gemma 3n E4B InstructOpenGoogle1.0———
42▲ 9Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle1.0———

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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