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521 models · 3 boards · 2 sources

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Intelligence Index · A composite of several evaluations · Updated September 1, 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 V3.1 (Reasoning)DeepSeek · #11 overall59.7
This week's changes
Exaone 4.0 1.2B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #81New
Qwen3 4B 2507 (Reasoning)Intelligence · #26Up 59
Qwen3 0.6B (Reasoning)Intelligence · #148Up 10
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—GPT-5 mini (high)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants65.4$0.69——
6—o4-mini (high)ClosedOpenAI65.1$1.9——
7—Gemini 2.5 ProClosedGoogle64.6$3.4——
8—Qwen3 235B A22B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 3 more variants63.6$2.6——
9—gpt-oss-120BOpenOpenAI61.3$0.26——
10—Claude 4.1 Opus (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant61.0$30——
11—DeepSeek V3.1 (Reasoning)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant59.7$0.96——
12—Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (Mar' 25)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant59.0$3.4——
13—Claude 4 Sonnet (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant58.8$6.0——
14—DeepSeek R1 0528 (May '25)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant58.6$0.96——
15—Gemini 2.5 Flash (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant58.4$0.85——
16—Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high)ClosedxAI58.0$0.35——
17—GLM-4.5OpenZ AI56.1$0.99——
18—o3-mini (high)ClosedOpenAI · 1 more variant55.5$1.9——
19—Claude 4 Opus (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant55.3$30——
20—GPT-5 nano (high)ClosedOpenAI · 2 more variants54.7$0.14——
21—Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 3 more variants53.9$0.75——
22—MiniMax M1 80kOpenMiniMax53.2$0.83——
23—GLM-4.5-AirOpenZ AI52.8$0.43——
24—Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant52.4$0.000——
25—o1ClosedOpenAI · 1 more variant51.7$26——
26▲ 59Qwen3 4B 2507 (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 2 more variants50.8$0.000——
27▼ 1Sonar Reasoning ProClosedPerplexity50.7$0.000——
28▼ 1EXAONE 4.0 32B (Reasoning)OpenLG AI Research · 1 more variant50.7$0.70——
29▼ 1Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant50.2$0.99——
30▼ 1gpt-oss-20BOpenOpenAI49.0$0.088——
31▼ 1Kimi K2OpenMoonshot AI48.6$1.1——
32▼ 1Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Reasoning)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant47.3$0.18——
33▼ 1Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Extended Thinking)ClosedAnthropic · 1 more variant47.0$6.0——
34▼ 1GPT-4.1ClosedOpenAI46.8$3.5——
35▼ 1Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA46.4$0.90——
36▼ 1MiniMax M1 40kOpenMiniMax45.8$0.83——
37▼ 1Grok 3 Reasoning BetaClosedxAI45.6$0.000——
37▼ 1o1-proClosedOpenAI45.6$263——
39▼ 1GPT-4.1 miniClosedOpenAI45.6$0.70——
40▼ 1Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BOpenAlibaba45.2$3.0——
41▼ 1Qwen3 32B (Reasoning)OpenAlibaba · 1 more variant44.3$2.6——
42▼ 1DeepSeek V3 0324 (Mar '25)OpenDeepSeek · 1 more variant44.0$0.48——
43▼ 1Solar Pro 2 (Reasoning)ClosedUpstage · 3 more variants43.3$0.50——
44▼ 1o1-miniClosedOpenAI43.3$1.9——
45▼ 1NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2 (Reasoning)OpenNVIDIA · 1 more variant43.2$0.000——
46▼ 1GLM-4.5V (Reasoning)OpenZ AI42.9$0.85——
47▼ 1GPT-4.5 (Preview)ClosedOpenAI42.4$0.000——
48▼ 1QwQ 32BOpenAlibaba41.9$0.63——
49▼ 1Llama 4 MaverickOpenMeta41.7$0.39——
50▼ 1Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental (Jan '25)ClosedGoogle · 1 more variant41.7$0.000——

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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