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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated October 5, 2026

Smartest
Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)Anthropic57.6Intelligence
Best open model
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi46.3Intelligence
Best value
Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BMeta252 pts/$Value
Best from China
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi46.3Intelligence
Top three open models
1MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi · #13 overall46.3
2GLM-5.3 (Max)Z AI · #15 overall44.8
3Kimi K3 (Max)Kimi · #18 overall43.6
This week's changes
Utopai XVideo · #2New
Dreamina Seedance 2.5Video · #3New
Gemini 4 Argon (High)Intelligence · #5New
MiniMax H3 MaxVideo · #5New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines25.7$0.521932.1 s
2—Inkling (Xhigh)OpenThinking Machines25.0$1.81721.8 s
3—Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA22.9$1.11731.2 s
4▲ 1Muse Glimmer (High)OpenMeta17.5$0.581310.9 s
5▲ 1Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant16.7$0.17——
6▲ 1Granite 4.2 30BOpenIBM14.8$0.28770.9 s
7▼ 3Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant14.7$0.000361.1 s
8—Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant14.2$0.151122.4 s
9—Apriel-v1.5-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow13.8$0.000——
10—Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow13.4$0.000——
11—Nemotron 3.5 LightningOpenNVIDIA12.9$0.0952990.6 s
12—Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA12.8$0.451561.3 s
13—Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA11.7———
14—gpt-oss-120b (High)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant11.6$0.261930.8 s
15—Granite 4.2 8BOpenIBM11.1$0.11491.0 s
16—Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA10.3$0.422690.4 s
17—Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta10.0$0.42681.2 s
18—gpt-oss-20b (Low)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant10.0$0.112570.9 s
19—DiffusionGemma 26B A4BOpenGoogle9.5———
20—Granite 4.2 3BOpenIBM9.1$0.0532210.5 s
21—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant9.0———
22—Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.9———
23—Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant8.9$0.040391.2 s
24—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.9$0.0882101.0 s
25—LFM2.5-2.6BOpenLiquid AI8.4$0.000——
26—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta8.1$0.31780.9 s
27—Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant7.8———
28—Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta7.7$0.71821.7 s
29—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA7.5———
30—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant7.5———
31—Granite 4.1 30BOpenIBM7.4———
32—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant7.4$0.0701662 s
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———
36▲ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA6.9———
37▲ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpenMeta6.9$0.0281400.8 s
38▲ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta6.6$0.56421.9 s
39▲ 1Granite 4.1 8BOpenIBM6.6———
40▲ 1R1 1776OpenPerplexity6.4———
41▲ 1Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta6.4———
42▲ 1Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft6.3$0.000450.8 s
43▲ 1Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM6.0$0.111436 s
44▲ 1LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI5.9———
45▲ 1Phi-4OpenMicrosoft5.9$0.22382.6 s
46▲ 1Granite 4.1 3BOpenIBM5.9———
47▲ 1Phi-3 Mini Instruct 3.8BOpenMicrosoft5.8———
48▲ 1Gemma 3n E4B Instruct Preview (May '25)OpenGoogle5.8———
49▲ 1Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft5.8$0.000——
50▲ 1Llama 2 Chat 7BOpenMeta5.7$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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