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Week of August 17, 2026
September 28, 202617 changesSeptember 21, 2026115 changesSeptember 14, 2026174 changesSeptember 7, 2026144 changesAugust 31, 202620 changesAugust 24, 202615 changesAugust 17, 202633 changesAugust 10, 2026116 changesAugust 3, 202613 changesJuly 27, 202639 changesJuly 20, 202618 changesJuly 13, 202611 changes
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Artificial AnalysisIntelligence IndexArenaText arena

Text arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Published August 21, 2026

Most preferred
claude-fable-5Anthropic1,508Score
Best open model
kimi-k3-maxMoonshot AI1,489Score
Best from China
kimi-k3-maxMoonshot AI1,489Score
Most voted
claude-3-opus-20240229Anthropic194,909Votes
Top three by Score
1claude-fable-5Anthropic1,508
2claude-opus-4-6-highAnthropic1,504
3claude-opus-4-7-highAnthropic1,502
Top three open models
1kimi-k3-maxMoonshot AI · #10 overall1,489
2glm-5.3-maxZ.ai · #13 overall1,487
3glm-5.2-maxZ.ai · #34 overall1,470
This week's changes
Sonic 3.6Speech · #1New
Grok 4.6 (high)Intelligence · #4New
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BIntelligence · #7New
glm-5.3-maxCoding · #8New
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProImage · #8New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortScoreLowest price
RankChangeModelScore95% intervalVotesPrice $/M
1—claude-fable-5ClosedAnthropic1,508±524,331—
2—claude-opus-4-6-highClosedAnthropic1,504±472,359—
3—claude-opus-4-7-highClosedAnthropic1,502±460,203—
4—muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh)ClosedMeta1,498±103,257—
5—claude-opus-4-6ClosedAnthropic1,497±376,362—
6—claude-opus-4-7ClosedAnthropic1,494±461,304—
7—claude-opus-5-highClosedAnthropic1,493±527,610—
8▲ 1muse-spark-1.1ClosedMeta1,491±520,242—
9Newgemini-3.7-flash-highClosedGoogle1,490±85,718—
10—muse-sparkClosedMeta1,488±613,584—
11▼ 3claude-opus-5-maxClosedAnthropic1,487±613,403—
12▼ 1gemini-3.1-pro-previewClosedGoogle1,486±399,182—
13▼ 1gemini-3-proClosedGoogle1,485±441,491—
14▲ 2gpt-5.6-sol-xhighClosedOpenAI1,482±519,541—
15—gpt-5.5-highClosedOpenAI1,482±459,545—
16▼ 2claude-opus-4-8-highClosedAnthropic1,482±444,676—
17▼ 4gemini-3.6-flash-highClosedGoogle1,481±518,018—
18▼ 1gemini-3.5-flash-highClosedGoogle1,478±530,004—
19—gpt-5.4-highClosedOpenAI1,476±460,708—
20▼ 2gpt-5.5ClosedOpenAI1,476±460,896—
21▼ 1gpt-5.2-chat-latest-20260210ClosedOpenAI1,476±434,339—
22—grok-4.20-beta1ClosedxAI1,475±526,770—
23▼ 2gemini-3.5-flash-mediumClosedGoogle1,474±528,343—
24—gpt-5.5-instantClosedOpenAI1,474±525,863—
25▼ 2claude-opus-4-8ClosedAnthropic1,473±445,331—
26▼ 1gemini-3-flashClosedGoogle · 1 more variant1,473±430,852—
27▼ 1claude-opus-4-5-20251101-high-32kClosedAnthropic1,473±437,198—
28▼ 1claude-sonnet-4-6ClosedAnthropic1,472±466,512—
29▼ 1grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoningClosedxAI1,472±462,272—
30▲ 1grok-4.5ClosedxAI1,470±522,030—
31▼ 2grok-4.20-multi-agent-beta-0309ClosedxAI1,470±460,864—
32▼ 2claude-opus-4-5-20251101ClosedAnthropic1,469±370,985—
33—gpt-5.4ClosedOpenAI1,466±463,659—
34▼ 2grok-4.1-thinkingClosedxAI · 1 more variant1,466±365,550—
35▼ 1gpt-5.6-terra-xhighClosedOpenAI1,465±520,216—
36—claude-sonnet-5-highClosedAnthropic1,461±527,366—
37▼ 2grok-4.6-highClosedxAI1,461±103,473—
38▼ 1gemini-3.5-flash-liteClosedGoogle1,457±617,985$0.85
39▼ 1claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-high-32kClosedAnthropic1,456±382,473—
40▼ 1claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929ClosedAnthropic1,455±380,858—
41▼ 1gpt-5.1-highClosedOpenAI1,455±440,945—
42▼ 1gemma-4-31bOpenGoogle1,451±85,899$0.000
43▼ 1gpt-5.6-luna-xhighClosedOpenAI1,451±520,693—
44▼ 1claude-opus-4-1-20250805-thinking-16kClosedAnthropic1,449±350,016—
45▼ 1gpt-5.3-chat-latestClosedOpenAI1,449±432,832—
46▼ 1gpt-5.4-mini-highClosedOpenAI1,448±459,502—
47▼ 1claude-opus-4-1-20250805ClosedAnthropic1,447±377,751—
48▼ 1gemini-2.5-proClosedGoogle1,445±2124,807—
49▼ 1gpt-4.5-preview-2025-02-27ClosedOpenAI1,445±614,547—
50▼ 1chatgpt-4o-latest-20250326ClosedOpenAI1,443±382,766—

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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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.