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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated September 10, 2025

Smartest
GPT-5 (high)OpenAI66.7Intelligence
Best open model
gpt-oss-120BOpenAI57.9Intelligence
Best value
Gemma 3n E4B InstructGoogle624 pts/$Value
Best from China
Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba57.5Intelligence
Top three by Intelligence
1GPT-5 (high)OpenAI66.7
2Grok 4xAI65.3
3o3-proOpenAI65.3
Top three open models
1gpt-oss-120BOpenAI · #9 overall57.9
2Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)Alibaba · #10 overall57.5
3DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)DeepSeek · #15 overall54.0
This week's changes
Grok Code Fast 1Intelligence · #22New
Qwen3 Max (Preview)Intelligence · #23New
Kimi K2 0905Intelligence · #19Up 12
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—GPT-5 (high)ClosedOpenAI66.7$3.4——
2—GPT-5 (medium)ClosedOpenAI66.3$3.4——
3—Grok 4ClosedxAI65.3$6.0——
4—o3-proClosedOpenAI65.3$35——
5—o3ClosedOpenAI65.2$3.5——
6—GPT-5 mini (high)ClosedOpenAI62.3$0.69——
7▲ 3GPT-5 (low)ClosedOpenAI61.7$3.4——
8▲ 1GPT-5 mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI60.8$0.69——
9▼ 1Gemini 2.5 ProClosedGoogle59.6$3.4——
10▲ 2Claude 4.1 Opus (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic59.3$30——
11▼ 4o4-mini (high)ClosedOpenAI59.0$1.9——
12▼ 1gpt-oss-120BOpenOpenAI57.9$0.26——
13▲ 3Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high)ClosedxAI57.1$0.35——
14—Claude 4 Sonnet (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic56.5$6.0——
15▲ 4Claude 4 Opus (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic54.2$30——
16▼ 3Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (Mar' 25)ClosedGoogle54.1$3.4——
17—Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (May' 25)ClosedGoogle53.2$3.4——
18▼ 3Gemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle51.2$0.85——
19▼ 1o3-mini (high)ClosedOpenAI50.8$1.9——
20NewGrok Code Fast 1ClosedxAI48.7$0.53——
21▼ 1GPT-5 nano (high)ClosedOpenAI48.5$0.14——
22—o3-miniClosedOpenAI48.1$1.9——
23▲ 15o1-proClosedOpenAI48.0$263——
24▼ 3GPT-5 nano (medium)ClosedOpenAI47.7$0.14——
25▼ 1o1ClosedOpenAI47.2$26——
26▼ 1Sonar Reasoning ProClosedPerplexity46.3$0.000——
27▼ 1Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle45.8$0.000——
28▼ 5Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA45.2$0.000——
29▼ 2o1-previewClosedOpenAI44.9$29——
30▼ 2gpt-oss-20BOpenOpenAI44.8$0.088——
31▼ 2Claude 4.1 OpusClosedAnthropic44.6$30——
32▲ 5Claude 4 SonnetClosedAnthropic44.4$6.0——
33▲ 8GPT-5 (minimal)ClosedOpenAI43.5$3.4——
34▼ 1GPT-4.1ClosedOpenAI43.4$3.5——
35▼ 3Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic42.7$6.0——
36▲ 4GPT-4.1 miniClosedOpenAI42.5$0.70——
37▼ 3Claude 4 OpusClosedAnthropic42.3$30——
38▼ 2GPT-5 mini (minimal)ClosedOpenAI41.6$0.69——
39▼ 1Grok 3 Reasoning BetaClosedxAI41.4$0.000——
40▼ 10Gemini 2.5 FlashClosedGoogle40.4$0.85——
41▼ 10Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle40.1$0.18——
42—o1-miniClosedOpenAI39.2$1.9——
43▼ 8Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA38.5$0.90——
44—GPT-4.5 (Preview)ClosedOpenAI38.4$0.000——
45—NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2OpenNVIDIA38.1$0.000——
46▲ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (Jan '25)ClosedGoogle37.7$0.000——
47▼ 4NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA36.9$0.000——
48—Grok 3ClosedxAI36.0$6.0——
49▼ 3Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta35.8$0.39——
50▼ 1GPT-4o (March 2025, chatgpt-4o-latest)ClosedOpenAI35.6$7.5——

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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