State of the Art

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

Last updated: March 10, 2026

Smartest

Highest intelligence scores across all benchmarks

1
Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle
57
2
GPT-5.4 (xhigh)OpenAI
57
3
GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh)OpenAI
54
4
Claude Opus 4.6 (max)Anthropic
53
5
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max)Anthropic
52

Fastest

Highest output throughput in tokens per second

1
Mercury 2Inception
627 tok/s
2
Granite 4.0 H SmallIBM
372 tok/s
3
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Sep)Google
337 tok/s
4
gpt-oss-20B (low)OpenAI
292 tok/s
5
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Sep)Google
288 tok/s

Best Value

Highest intelligence-to-price ratio

1
Qwen3.5 9BAlibaba
290.9
2
MiMo-V2-Flash (Feb 2026)Xiaomi
273.3
3
gpt-oss-20B (high)OpenAI
266.7
4
Step 3.5 FlashStepFun
253.3
5
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 NanoNVIDIA
240.0

Cheapest

Lowest cost per million tokens

1
Gemma 3n E4BGoogle
$0.03/M tok
2
LFM2 24B A2BLiquid AI
$0.05/M tok
3
Nova MicroAmazon
$0.06/M tok
4
NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2NVIDIA
$0.07/M tok
5
gpt-oss-20B (high)OpenAI
$0.09/M tok

Lowest Latency

Fastest time to first token

1
Ministral 3 3BMistral
0 ms
2
LFM2 24B A2BLiquid AI
0 ms
3
Ministral 3 8BMistral
1 ms
4
Mistral Small 3.2Mistral
1 ms
5
Grok 4.1 FastxAI
1 ms