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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated August 17, 2026

Smartest
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 open models
1Kimi K3 (max)Kimi · #5 overall59.7
2Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BAlibaba · #7 overall57.7
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
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1—Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 4 more variants63.1$105345 s
2—Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback)ClosedAnthropic62.1$2067131 s
3—GPT-5.6 Sol (max)ClosedOpenAI · 5 more variants60.9$1170137 s
4—Claude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic57.3$105817 s
5—Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)ClosedMeta56.8$2.0——
6—GPT-5.6 Terra (max)ClosedOpenAI · 5 more variants56.6$4.5124174 s
7—GPT-5.5 (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 4 more variants56.3$119045 s
8NewGemini 3.7 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle · 2 more variants56.0$1.541320 s
9▼ 1Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant55.3$4.077183 s
10▼ 1Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant55.0$10519.8 s
11▼ 1Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh)ClosedMeta53.2$2.02451.4 s
12▼ 1GPT-5.4 (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants53.1$5.6137119 s
13▼ 1GPT-5.6 Luna (max)ClosedOpenAI · 5 more variants52.3$0.45171119 s
14▼ 1Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle · 2 more variants52.0$3.418324 s
15▼ 1Gemini 3.6 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle51.6$3.021516 s
16▼ 1Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 2 more variants48.4$6.057145 s
17▼ 1Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewClosedGoogle47.7$4.510833 s
18▼ 1GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI45.5$4.813951 s
19▼ 1Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant44.9$103918 s
20▼ 1Muse SparkClosedMeta44.3———
21▼ 1GPT-5.2 (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants43.3$4.880117 s
22▼ 1Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines42.3$1.8841.7 s
23▼ 1Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant41.9$104412 s
24▼ 1GPT-5.2 Codex (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI41.2$4.8——
25▼ 1Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines41.2$0.52641.8 s
26▼ 1GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants40.9$1.71657.1 s
27▼ 1Gemini 3 Pro Preview (high)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant40.6$4.5——
28▼ 1GPT-5.4 nano (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants39.7$0.461783.4 s
29▼ 1Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant38.7$1.11826.6 s
30▼ 1Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA38.3$1.11401.8 s
31▼ 1GPT-5.1 (high)ClosedOpenAI · 1 more variant37.5$3.411533 s
32▼ 1Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteClosedGoogle37.4$0.853569.8 s
33▼ 1Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant37.4$6.03910 s
34▼ 1GPT-5 Codex (high)ClosedOpenAI37.0$3.4——
35▼ 1GPT-5.1 Codex (high)ClosedOpenAI35.6$3.4——
36▼ 1GPT-5 (high)ClosedOpenAI · 4 more variants35.3$3.48691 s
37NewMuse Glimmer (high)OpenMeta35.1$0.581110.9 s
38▼ 2Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant34.5$30——
39▼ 2GPT-5.5 Instant (May 2026)ClosedOpenAI · 1 more variant34.3$11——
40▼ 2o3-proClosedOpenAI33.3$35——
41▼ 2Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant31.7$30——
42▼ 2GPT-5 mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants31.6$0.699514 s
43▼ 2GPT-5.1 Codex mini (high)ClosedOpenAI31.3$0.69——
44▼ 2o3ClosedOpenAI31.1$3.51238.9 s
45▼ 2Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant29.9$2.09115 s
46▼ 2Claude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant29.8$6.0——
47▼ 2Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant29.7$0.000361.1 s
48▼ 2Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant27.6———
49▼ 2Gemma 4 26B A4B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant26.1$0.20——
50▼ 2o4-mini (high)ClosedOpenAI26.1$1.916126 s

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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