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Week of September 7, 2026
October 19, 2026247 changesOctober 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 changes
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Artificial AnalysisIntelligence IndexArenaText arena

Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated September 7, 2026

Smartest
Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)Anthropic56.8Intelligence
Best open model
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi50.2Intelligence
Best value
Hy3-preview (Reasoning)Tencent268 pts/$Value
Best from China
Kimi K3 (max)Kimi50.2Intelligence
Top three by Intelligence
1Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)Anthropic56.8
2GPT-6 Astra (max)OpenAI54.7
3Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)Anthropic54.1
Top three open models
1Kimi K3 (max)Kimi · #8 overall50.2
2GLM-5.3 (max)Z AI · #9 overall48.6
3Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BAlibaba · #15 overall46.7
This week's changes
Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)Intelligence · #1New
GPT-6 Astra (max)Intelligence · #2New
MAI-Image-2.6Image · #2New
Realtime TTS-2Speech · #2New
Muse Spark 1.3 (max)Intelligence · #5New
AllOpenClosed
All regionsUSChina
One row per modelAll variants
SortIntelligenceValueSpeedLowest price
RankChangeModelIntelligencePrice $/MSpeed tok/sFirst token
1NewClaude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)ClosedAnthropic · 4 more variants56.8$2068272 s
2NewGPT-6 Astra (max)ClosedOpenAI · 5 more variants54.7$2064355 s
3▼ 2Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 4 more variants54.1$105695 s
4▼ 2Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback)ClosedAnthropic53.2$206391 s
5NewMuse Spark 1.3 (max)ClosedMeta · 1 more variant53.0$2.023326 s
6▼ 3GPT-5.6 Sol (max)ClosedOpenAI · 5 more variants51.3$8.076256 s
7▼ 3Claude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic47.8$105928 s
8NewGemini 3.8 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle · 2 more variants47.1$1.528111 s
9▼ 4Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)ClosedMeta46.8$2.026914 s
10▼ 4GPT-5.6 Terra (max)ClosedOpenAI · 5 more variants46.8$4.5114160 s
11▼ 4GPT-5.5 (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 4 more variants45.6$118582 s
12▼ 4Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle · 2 more variants45.2$1.53059.5 s
13▼ 4Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant45.1$4.075185 s
14▼ 4Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant44.3$104814 s
15▼ 2GPT-5.6 Luna (max)ClosedOpenAI · 5 more variants43.4$0.45130136 s
16▼ 4GPT-5.4 (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants42.8$5.6149123 s
17▼ 6Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh)ClosedMeta41.2$2.0——
18▼ 3Gemini 3.6 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle40.3$1.521815 s
19▼ 5Gemini 3.5 Flash (high)ClosedGoogle · 2 more variants39.7$3.421216 s
20▼ 4Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 2 more variants38.5$6.059119 s
21▼ 3GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI36.9$4.813760 s
22▼ 5Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewClosedGoogle36.7$4.511625 s
23▼ 4Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant36.4$104221 s
24▼ 4Muse SparkClosedMeta35.8———
25▼ 4GPT-5.2 (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants35.0$4.883148 s
26▼ 3Claude Opus 4.5 (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant33.6$105617 s
27▼ 3GPT-5.2 Codex (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI33.0$4.8——
28▼ 1Gemini 3 Pro Preview (high)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant32.4$4.5——
29▼ 4Inkling SmallOpenThinking Machines32.2$0.521252.0 s
30▼ 8Inkling (xhigh)OpenThinking Machines32.2$1.8722.6 s
31▼ 5GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants31.9$1.715316 s
32▼ 4GPT-5.4 nano (xhigh)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants30.9$0.4617815 s
33▼ 4Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant30.7$1.12175.6 s
34▼ 4Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA29.3$1.11662.3 s
35▼ 1GPT-5 Codex (high)ClosedOpenAI29.2$3.4——
36▼ 5GPT-5.1 (high)ClosedOpenAI · 1 more variant29.1$3.411428 s
37▼ 4Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant29.0$6.04713 s
38▼ 3GPT-5.1 Codex (high)ClosedOpenAI27.9$3.4——
39▼ 7Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteClosedGoogle27.6$0.853387.2 s
40▼ 4GPT-5 (high)ClosedOpenAI · 4 more variants27.1$3.410568 s
41▼ 3Claude 4.1 Opus (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant26.9$30——
42▼ 3GPT-5.5 Instant (May 2026)ClosedOpenAI · 1 more variant26.7$11——
43▼ 3o3-proClosedOpenAI25.7$35——
44▼ 7Muse Glimmer (high)OpenMeta24.4$0.641021.0 s
45▼ 4Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant24.3$30——
46▼ 4GPT-5 mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants24.2$0.6910118 s
47▼ 4GPT-5.1 Codex mini (high)ClosedOpenAI24.0$0.69——
48▼ 4o3ClosedOpenAI23.7$3.51517.0 s
49▼ 4Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant22.5$2.09321 s
50▼ 3Gemma 4 31B (Reasoning)OpenGoogle · 1 more variant22.2$0.000351.0 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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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.