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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated September 1, 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 V3.1 (Reasoning)DeepSeek · #11 overall59.7
This week's changes
Exaone 4.0 1.2B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #81New
Qwen3 4B 2507 (Reasoning)Intelligence · #26Up 59
Qwen3 0.6B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #148Up 10
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 V3.1 (Reasoning)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant59.7$0.96——
4—DeepSeek R1 0528 (May '25)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant58.6$0.96——
5—GLM-4.5OpenZ AI56.1$0.99——
6—Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 3 more variants53.9$0.75——
7—MiniMax M1 80kOpenMiniMax53.2$0.83——
8—GLM-4.5-AirOpenZ AI52.8$0.43——
9—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant52.4$0.000——
10▲ 30Qwen3 4B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 2 more variants50.8$0.000——
11▼ 1EXAONE 4.0 32B (Reasoning)OpenLG AI Research · 1 more variant50.7$0.70——
12▼ 1gpt-oss-20BOpenOpenAI49.0$0.088——
13▼ 1Kimi K2OpenMoonshot AI48.6$1.1——
14▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA46.4$0.90——
15▼ 1MiniMax M1 40kOpenMiniMax45.8$0.83——
16▼ 1Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BOpenAlibaba45.2$3.0——
17▼ 1Qwen3 32B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant44.3$2.6——
18▼ 1DeepSeek V3 0324 (Mar '25)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant44.0$0.48——
19▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant43.2$0.000——
20▼ 1GLM-4.5V (Reasoning)OpenZ AI42.9$0.85——
21▼ 1QwQ 32BOpenAlibaba41.9$0.63——
22▼ 1Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta41.7$0.39——
23▼ 1Qwen3 8B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant40.8$0.66——
24▼ 1Qwen3 14B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant40.3$1.3——
25▼ 1Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant39.4$0.000——
26▼ 1DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BOpenDeepSeek38.6$0.065——
27▼ 1DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BOpenDeepSeek36.4$0.20——
28▼ 1Reka Flash 3OpenReka AI36.3$0.35——
29▼ 1Magistral SmallOpenMistral36.0$0.75——
30▼ 1Qwen3 Coder 30B A3BOpenAlibaba35.6$0.90——
31▼ 1DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenDeepSeek34.5$0.77——
32—DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BOpenDeepSeek33.3$0.88——
33—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta33.1$0.23——
34—Mistral Small 3.2OpenMistral31.8$0.15——
35—Command AOpenCohere31.6$4.4——
36—QwQ 32B-PreviewOpenAlibaba31.5$0.67——
37—Qwen2.5 Instruct 72BOpenAlibaba31.4$0.000——
38NewExaone 4.0 1.2B (Reasoning)OpenLG AI Research · 1 more variant31.3$0.000——
39▼ 1Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta31.2$0.57——
40▼ 9Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA29.6$0.000——
41▼ 2MiniMax-Text-01OpenMiniMax29.1$0.43——
42▼ 1Mistral Large 2 (Nov '24)OpenMistral · 1 more variant28.9$3.0——
43▼ 1Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta28.9$3.5——
44▼ 1Llama 3.1 Tulu3 405BOpenAllen Institute for AI28.7$0.000——
45▼ 1Pixtral LargeOpenMistral28.3$3.0——
46NewGrok 2 (Dec '24)OpenxAI28.0$0.000——
47▼ 2Phi-4OpenMicrosoft Azure28.0$0.22——
48▼ 1Mistral Small 3.1OpenMistral26.4$0.15——
49▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Instruct 70BOpenNVIDIA26.1$0.16——
50▼ 1Qwen2.5 Instruct 32BOpenAlibaba26.1$0.15——

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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