State of the Art

Top AI models across every dimension. Data from Artificial Analysis.

Last updated: May 3, 2026

Smartest

Highest intelligence scores across all benchmarks

1
GPT-5.5 (xhigh)![OpenAI](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/openai_small.svg)OpenAI
60
2
GPT-5.5 (high)![OpenAI](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/openai_small.svg)OpenAI
59
3
Claude Opus 4.7 (max)![Anthropic](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/anthropic_small.svg)Anthropic
57
4
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview![Google](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/google_small.svg)Google
57
5
GPT-5.5 (medium)![OpenAI](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/openai_small.svg)OpenAI
57

Fastest

Highest output throughput in tokens per second

1
Mercury 2![Inception](https://artificialanalysis.ai/_next/image?url=%2Fimg%2Flogos%2Finceptionlabs_small.jpg&w=32&q=75)Inception
782 tok/s
2
Granite 4.0 H Small![IBM](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/ibm_small.svg)IBM
461 tok/s
3
Qwen3.5 0.8B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
343 tok/s
4
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview![Google](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/google_small.svg)Google
341 tok/s
5
Qwen3.5 2B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
330 tok/s

Best Value

Highest intelligence-to-price ratio

1
Qwen3.5 0.8B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
500.0
2
Qwen3.5 4B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
450.0
3
Qwen3.5 4B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
383.3
4
Qwen3.5 2B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
375.0
5
Qwen3.5 9B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
290.9

Cheapest

Lowest cost per million tokens

1
Qwen3.5 0.8B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
$0.02/M tok
2
Qwen3.5 2B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
$0.04/M tok
3
LFM2 24B A2B![Liquid AI](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/liquidai_small.svg)Liquid AI
$0.05/M tok
4
Qwen3.5 4B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
$0.06/M tok
5
Qwen3.5 4B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
$0.06/M tok

Lowest Latency

Fastest time to first token

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano![NVIDIA](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/nvidia_small.svg)NVIDIA
0 ms
2
Ministral 3 3B![Mistral](https://artificialanalysis.ai/_next/image?url=%2Fimg%2Flogos%2Fmistral_small.png&w=32&q=75)Mistral
0 ms
3
Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high)![xAI](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/xai.svg)xAI
1 ms
4
LFM2 24B A2B![Liquid AI](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/liquidai_small.svg)Liquid AI
1 ms
5
Qwen3.5 9B![Alibaba](https://artificialanalysis.ai/img/logos/alibaba_small.svg)Alibaba
1 ms