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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—GPT-5 (high)ClosedOpenAI · 3 more variants69.0$3.4——
2—Grok 4ClosedxAI67.5$6.0——
3—o3-proClosedOpenAI67.5$35——
4—o3ClosedOpenAI67.1$3.5——
5—o4-mini (high)ClosedOpenAI65.1$1.9——
6—Gemini 2.5 ProClosedGoogle64.6$3.4——
7—GPT-5 miniClosedOpenAI63.7$0.69——
8▲ 1gpt-oss-120BOpenOpenAI61.3$0.26——
9▼ 1Claude 4.1 Opus (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant61.0$30——
10—Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (Mar' 25)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant59.0$3.4——
11—Claude 4 Sonnet (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant58.8$6.0——
12—Gemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant58.4$0.85——
13—Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high)ClosedxAI58.0$0.35——
14—o3-mini (high)ClosedOpenAI · 1 more variant55.5$1.9——
15—Claude 4 Opus (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant55.3$30——
16—GPT-5 nanoClosedOpenAI53.8$0.14——
17—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant52.4$0.000——
18—o1ClosedOpenAI · 1 more variant51.7$26——
19—Sonar Reasoning ProClosedPerplexity50.7$0.000——
20—Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant50.2$0.99——
21—gpt-oss-20BOpenOpenAI49.0$0.088——
22▲ 5Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant47.3$0.18——
23▼ 1Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant47.0$6.0——
24▼ 1GPT-4.1ClosedOpenAI46.8$3.5——
25▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA46.4$0.90——
26▼ 1Grok 3 Reasoning BetaClosedxAI45.6$0.000——
26▼ 1o1-proClosedOpenAI45.6$263——
28▲ 2GPT-4.1 miniClosedOpenAI45.6$0.70——
29▼ 1o1-miniClosedOpenAI43.3$1.9——
30▼ 1GPT-4.5 (Preview)ClosedOpenAI42.4$0.000——
31—Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta41.7$0.39——
32—Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (Jan '25)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant41.7$0.000——
33—Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant40.5$0.000——
34—Grok 3ClosedxAI39.9$6.0——
35—GPT-4o (March 2025, chatgpt-4o-latest)ClosedOpenAI · 4 more variants39.5$7.5——
36—Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental (Feb '25)ClosedGoogle38.4$0.000——
37—Sonar ReasoningClosedPerplexity38.0$2.0——
38—Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb '25)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant37.8$0.18——
39—Nova PremierClosedAmazon34.8$5.0——
40—Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 4B v1.1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA34.1$0.000——
41—Gemini 1.5 Pro (Sep '24)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant33.6$0.000——
42—Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct '24)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant33.5$6.0——
43—Llama 4 ScoutOpenMeta33.1$0.21——
44—SonarClosedPerplexity32.4$1.0——
45—Sonar ProClosedPerplexity31.7$6.0——
46▲ 2GPT-4.1 nanoClosedOpenAI31.6$0.18——
47▼ 1Llama 3.3 Instruct 70BOpenMeta31.2$0.59——
48▼ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (Feb '25)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant30.3$0.13——
49—Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpenMeta29.3$3.3——
50—Nova ProClosedAmazon28.8$1.4——

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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