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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated September 14, 2026

Best open model
GLM-5.3 (max)Z AI44.9Intelligence
Best value
Agnes 3.0 FlashSapiens AI473 pts/$Value
Best from China
GLM-5.3 (max)Z AI44.9Intelligence
Top three open models
1GLM-5.3 (max)Z AI · #7 overall44.9
2Kimi K3 (max)Kimi · #9 overall43.8
3GLM-5.3-FlashZ AI · #12 overall41.9
This week's changes
Agnes 3.0 FlashIntelligence · #27New
Ling-3.0-flash-VLIntelligence · #77New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines26.1$0.521672.2 s
2—Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines25.5$1.8892.9 s
3—Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA23.4$1.12032.3 s
4—Muse Glimmer (high)OpenMeta18.1$0.64891.1 s
5▲ 1Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant16.7$0.18——
6▼ 1Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant15.4$0.000351.0 s
7▲ 1Granite 4.2 30BOpenIBM14.8$0.28770.8 s
8▲ 3Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant14.2$0.151102.4 s
9▲ 3Apriel-v1.5-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow13.8$0.000——
10▼ 1Nemotron 3.5 LightningOpenNVIDIA13.6$0.0952980.6 s
11▼ 4Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA13.6$0.311712.8 s
12▲ 1Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow13.4$0.000——
13▼ 3gpt-oss-120b (high)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant12.3$0.262170.8 s
14—Granite 4.2 8BOpenIBM11.8$0.11830.6 s
15—Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA11.7———
16▲ 2Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA10.3$0.16——
17—gpt-oss-20b (low)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant10.0$0.102580.8 s
18▲ 3DiffusionGemma 26B A4BOpenGoogle9.5———
19▲ 1Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta9.3$0.42930.8 s
20▼ 4Granite 4.2 3BOpenIBM9.1$0.0532160.4 s
21▲ 1Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant9.0$0.40844.7 s
22▲ 1Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.9———
23▲ 1Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant8.9$0.040420.9 s
24▼ 5NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.9$0.0882611.2 s
25—LFM2.5-2.6BOpenLiquid AI8.4$0.000——
26▲ 1Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant7.8———
27▲ 1Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta7.7$0.67881.6 s
28▲ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA7.5———
29▲ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant7.5$0.30824.3 s
30▲ 1Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM7.4———
31▲ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant7.4$0.070965.6 s
32▲ 1NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA7.4———
33▲ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA7.3———
34▲ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta7.3———
35▲ 1LFM2.5-8B-A1BOpenLiquid AI7.2$0.000——
36▲ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA6.9$1.2914.3 s
37▲ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta6.9$0.0281390.9 s
38▲ 2Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta6.6$0.56551.7 s
39▲ 2Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM6.6$0.0631260.8 s
40▼ 14Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta6.5$0.311190.8 s
41▲ 1R1 1776OpenPerplexity6.4———
42—Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta6.4———
43▼ 1Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft6.3$0.000450.9 s
44▼ 2Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM6.0$0.111233 s
45▼ 3LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI5.9———
46▼ 4Phi-4OpenMicrosoft5.9$0.22392.6 s
47▼ 5Granite 4.1 3BOpenIBM5.9———
48▼ 6Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft5.8———
49▼ 7Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle5.8———
50▼ 8Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft5.8$0.000170.9 s

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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