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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated October 26, 2026

Smartest
Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)Anthropic57.6Intelligence
Best open model
MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi46.3Intelligence
Best value
Agnes 2.5 Pro BetaSapiens AI235 pts/$Value
Best from China
Kimi K3.1 ProKimi55.1Intelligence
Top three open models
1MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi · #11 overall46.3
2DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)DeepSeek · #13 overall45.1
3GLM-5.3 (Max)Z AI · #14 overall44.8
This week's changes
HeyGen Video 1Video · #3New
Kimi K3.1 ProIntelligence · #4New
Gemini 4 Carbon (High)Coding · #4New
GPT-6.1 Terra (Max)Coding · #13New
MiniMax-M3.1-FlashIntelligence · #18New
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Muse Spark Open (Xhigh)OpenMeta38.9$2.01510.8 s
2—Nemotron 3.5 Super VLOpenNVIDIA26.5$0.314460.7 s
3—Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines25.7$0.522231.6 s
4—Inkling (Xhigh)OpenThinking Machines25.0$1.81951.8 s
5—Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA22.9$1.11581.2 s
6—Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9BOpenNVIDIA21.4———
7—Muse Glimmer (High)OpenMeta17.5$0.521051.1 s
8—Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant16.7$0.16910.9 s
9—Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant14.7$0.000351.1 s
10—Gemma 4 12B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant14.2$0.151142.2 s
11—Apriel-v1.6-15B-ThinkerOpenServiceNow13.4———
12—Nemotron 3.5 LightningOpenNVIDIA12.9$0.0952950.6 s
13—Granite 4.2 30BOpenIBM12.7$0.28470.8 s
14—Nemotron Cascade 2 30B A3BOpenNVIDIA11.7———
15—gpt-oss-120b (High)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant11.6$0.262330.8 s
16—Granite 4.2 8BOpenIBM11.1$0.11540.8 s
17—Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B ReasoningOpenNVIDIA10.3$0.642310.8 s
18—gpt-oss-20b (Low)OpenOpenAI · 1 more variant10.0$0.131861.0 s
19—DiffusionGemma 26B A4BOpenGoogle9.5———
20—Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta9.3$0.42521.0 s
21—Granite 4.2 3BOpenIBM9.1$0.053510.7 s
22—Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant8.9$0.040450.9 s
23—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant8.9$0.0882410.9 s
24—LFM2.5-2.6BOpenLiquid AI8.4———
25—Gemma 4 E2B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant7.8———
26—Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta7.7$0.67891.8 s
27—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA7.5———
28—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant7.5———
29—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant7.4$0.0701220.6 s
30—Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta7.3———
31—LFM2.5-8B-A1BOpenLiquid AI7.2———
32—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta6.5$0.301180.8 s
33—R1 1776OpenPerplexity6.4———
34—Llama 3.2 Instruct 90B (Vision)OpenMeta6.4———
35—Phi-4 Mini InstructOpenMicrosoft6.3$0.13460.8 s
36—Granite 4.0 H SmallOpenIBM6.0———
37—LFM2 24B A2BOpenLiquid AI5.9———
38—Phi-4OpenMicrosoft5.9$0.22392.5 s
39—Phi-4 Multimodal InstructOpenMicrosoft5.8$0.14——
40—Llama 3.2 Instruct 11B (Vision)OpenMeta5.4$0.35261.3 s
41—LFM2.5-1.2B-ThinkingOpenLiquid AI5.2———
42—LFM2.5-1.2B-InstructOpenLiquid AI5.2———
43—Granite 4.0 H 1BOpenIBM5.2———
44—Gemma 3 270MOpenGoogle5.1———
45—Granite 4.0 MicroOpenIBM5.1———
46—Granite 4.0 350MOpenIBM4.8———
46—Granite 4.0 H 350MOpenIBM4.8———
46—LFM2.5-VL-1.6BOpenLiquid AI4.8———
49—NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 4BOpenNVIDIA4.8———

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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