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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated August 18, 2025

Smartest
GPT-5 (high)OpenAI69.0Intelligence
Best open model
Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba63.6Intelligence
Best value
Gemma 3n E4B InstructGoogle739 pts/$Value
Best from China
Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba63.6Intelligence
Top three by Intelligence
1GPT-5 (high)OpenAI69.0
2Grok 4xAI67.5
3o3-proOpenAI67.5
Top three open models
1Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba · #8 overall63.6
2gpt-oss-120BOpenAI · #9 overall61.3
3DeepSeek R1 0528 (May '25)DeepSeek · #13 overall58.7
This week's changes
Mistral Medium 3.1Intelligence · #58New
Gemma 3 4B InstructIntelligence · #132Up 13
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning)Intelligence · #32Up 7
GPT-4.1 miniIntelligence · #38Up 7
GPT-4.1 nanoIntelligence · #76Up 3
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 3 more variants63.6$2.6——
2—gpt-oss-120BOpenOpenAI61.3$0.26——
3—DeepSeek R1 0528 (May '25)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant58.7$0.96——
4—GLM-4.5OpenZ AI56.1$0.96——
5—Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 3 more variants53.2$0.75——
6—MiniMax M1 80kOpenMiniMax53.2$0.83——
7—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant52.4$0.000——
8—MiniMax M1 40kOpenMiniMax51.1$0.83——
9—EXAONE 4.0 32B (Reasoning)OpenLG AI Research · 1 more variant50.7$0.70——
10—GLM-4.5-AirOpenZ AI49.5$0.43——
11—gpt-oss-20BOpenOpenAI49.0$0.088——
12—Kimi K2OpenMoonshot AI48.6$1.1——
13—QwQ 32BOpenAlibaba47.7$0.47——
14—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA46.4$0.90——
15▲ 1Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BOpenAlibaba45.2$3.0——
16▲ 1Qwen3 32B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant44.3$2.6——
17▲ 1DeepSeek V3 0324 (Mar '25)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant44.0$0.48——
18▲ 1Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta41.7$0.39——
19▲ 1DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BOpenDeepSeek41.5$0.065——
20▲ 1DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BOpenDeepSeek41.2$0.20——
21▲ 1Qwen3 8B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant40.8$0.66——
22▲ 1Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant40.5$0.000——
23▼ 8Qwen3 14B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant40.3$1.3——
24—DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BOpenDeepSeek38.2$0.88——
25—DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenDeepSeek37.4$0.77——
26—Qwen3 4B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant36.4$0.40——
27—Reka Flash 3OpenReka AI36.3$0.35——
28—Magistral SmallOpenMistral36.0$0.75——
29—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA34.1$0.000——
30—Qwen3 Coder 30B A3BOpenAlibaba33.4$0.90——
31—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta33.1$0.21——
32—Mistral Small 3.2OpenMistral31.8$0.15——
33—Command AOpenCohere31.6$4.4——
34—QwQ 32B-PreviewOpenAlibaba31.5$0.67——
35—Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta31.2$0.59——
36—Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta29.3$3.3——
37—Qwen2.5 Instruct 72BOpenAlibaba29.2$0.000——
38—MiniMax-Text-01OpenMiniMax29.1$0.43——
39—Llama 3.1 Tulu3 405BOpenAllen Institute for AI28.7$0.000——
40—Phi-4OpenMicrosoft Azure28.0$0.22——
41—Mistral Large 2 (Nov '24)OpenMistral · 1 more variant27.0$3.0——
42—Qwen3 1.7B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant26.9$0.40——
43—Mistral Small 3.1OpenMistral26.4$0.15——
44—Pixtral LargeOpenMistral26.1$3.0——
45—Qwen2.5 Instruct 32BOpenAlibaba26.1$0.15——
46—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA26.0$0.16——
47—Gemma 3 27B InstructOpenGoogle25.2$0.000——
48—Qwen2.5 Coder Instruct 32BOpenAlibaba25.0$0.15——
49—Llama 3.1 Instruct 70BOpenMeta24.0$0.76——
50—Gemma 3 12B InstructOpenGoogle24.0$0.063——

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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