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Week of August 31, 2026
October 12, 2026127 changesOctober 5, 202634 changesSeptember 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 changes
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Artificial AnalysisIntelligence IndexArenaText arena

Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated August 31, 2026

Smartest
Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)Anthropic63.1Intelligence
Best open model
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi59.7Intelligence
Best value
Hy3-preview (Reasoning)Tencent345 pts/$Value
Best from China
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi59.7Intelligence
Top three by Intelligence
1Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)Anthropic63.1
2Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Anthropic62.1
3GPT-5.6 Sol (max)OpenAI60.9
Top three open models
1Kimi K3 (max)Kimi · #5 overall59.7
2GLM-5.3 (max)Z AI · #6 overall59.5
3Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BAlibaba · #8 overall57.7
This week's changes
gpt-6-astra-maxCoding · #1New
Wan 3.0Video · #1New
claude-fable-5.1-maxCoding · #2New
MAI-Image-2.6-PreviewImage · #2New
GLM-5.3-FlashIntelligence · #9New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortIntelligenceValueSpeedLowest price
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic63.1$105362 s
2—Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort)ClosedAnthropic62.5$105433 s
3—Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback)ClosedAnthropic62.1$2067100 s
4—Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, High Effort)ClosedAnthropic61.5$105219 s
5—GPT-5.6 Sol (max)ClosedOpenAI60.9$8.079116 s
6—GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI59.0$8.07952 s
7—Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)ClosedAnthropic58.6$10514.0 s
8—GPT-5.6 Sol (high)ClosedOpenAI57.3$8.07711 s
9—Claude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic57.3$105742 s
10—Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)ClosedMeta56.8$2.0——
11—GPT-5.6 Terra (max)ClosedOpenAI56.6$4.5122137 s
12—GPT-5.5 (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI56.3$119445 s
13—Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle56.0$1.53159.2 s
14—GPT-5.6 Sol (medium)ClosedOpenAI55.6$8.0705.4 s
15—Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic55.3$4.075200 s
16—Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic55.0$104718 s
17—GPT-5.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI54.7$119020 s
18—Gemini 3.7 Flash (medium)ClosedGoogle53.4$1.53374.5 s
19—Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh)ClosedMeta53.2$2.01971.4 s
20—GPT-5.4 (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI53.1$5.616498 s
21—GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI52.8$4.510230 s
22—Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort)ClosedAnthropic52.5$10512.8 s
23—GPT-5.6 Luna (max)ClosedOpenAI52.3$0.45130147 s
24—Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle52.0$3.421316 s
25—Gemini 3.6 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle51.6$1.517317 s
26—GPT-5.5 (medium)ClosedOpenAI51.4$11808.0 s
27—Gemini 3.7 Flash (low)ClosedGoogle50.9$1.53120.8 s
28—GPT-5.6 Sol (low)ClosedOpenAI50.7$8.0742.5 s
29—GPT-5.6 Terra (high)ClosedOpenAI50.1$4.51063.3 s
30—GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI50.1$0.4513362 s
31—Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic48.4$6.068121 s
32—Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewClosedGoogle47.7$4.511630 s
33—GPT-5.6 Luna (high)ClosedOpenAI47.0$0.4512216 s
34—GPT-5.6 Terra (medium)ClosedOpenAI46.8$4.5981.5 s
35—Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium)ClosedGoogle46.7$3.420515 s
36—GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI45.5$4.813241 s
37—Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic44.9$104021 s
38—GPT-5.5 (low)ClosedOpenAI44.5$11821.7 s
39—Muse SparkClosedMeta44.3———
40—Claude Opus 4.7 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)ClosedAnthropic43.9$10410.8 s
41—GPT-5.2 (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI43.3$4.883150 s
42—Claude Sonnet 5 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)ClosedAnthropic42.6$4.0591.1 s
43—Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines42.3$1.8772.4 s
44—GPT-5.6 Sol (Non-reasoning)ClosedOpenAI41.9$8.0731.0 s
45—Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic41.9$104715 s
46—GPT-5.6 Terra (low)ClosedOpenAI41.3$4.51011.4 s
47—GPT-5.2 Codex (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI41.2$4.8——
48—Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines41.2$0.52482.6 s
49—GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI40.9$1.71895.1 s
50—Gemini 3 Pro Preview (high)ClosedGoogle40.6$4.5——

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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Artificial Analysis data comes from its API (artificialanalysis.ai). Scores are unchanged; ranks follow the scores. artificialanalysis.ai

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