Artificial Analysis maintains an Intelligence Index that plots large language models against their blended API cost per million tokens, using a 3:1 input-to-output ratio and a log-price scale. The tool highlights a 'value frontier' of models that aren't beaten on both price and intelligence by any other option, showing only top variants and hiding low scorers by default, with filters to expand the view.
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· 2026-09-24
Mercury 2.5, a text-only large language model with a 260k token context window, has been benchmarked at 770 tokens per second on Artificial Analysis's testing. It scored 12 on the Intelligence Index, below the median of 13, while using fewer tokens (35M vs a median 85M) to complete the evaluation. Pricing sits at $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.75 per 1M output tokens, close to category medians.
artificialanalysis.ai
· 2026-09-23
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, running in Adaptive Reasoning Max Effort mode, scored 58 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index against a median of 25 among comparable models. The model handles text and image input with text output and a 1M token context window, but is priced at $4.00 per 1M input tokens and $20.00 per 1M output tokens, both above the reported medians of $2.00 and $10.00. Evaluating it on the Intelligence Index generated 260M tokens and cost $8,708.20 in total.
artificialanalysis.ai
· 2026-09-22
MiMo-V2.6-Pro is a new open-weight AI model supporting text, image, speech, and video inputs with a 1M-token context window, scoring 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index versus a median of 18 among comparable models. It runs at 125 tokens per second, priced at $0.43 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens, with a total evaluation cost of $206.66.
artificialanalysis.ai
· 2026-09-22
GLM-5.3-Flash is a text-only model with a 400k token context window that scored 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, far above the comparable median of 18. It is priced at $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens, both below the median rates for similar models, with the full benchmark run costing $138.02.
artificialanalysis.ai
· 2026-08-26