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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — cost vs performance

Best current row per canonical model in the group “index” (477 models) against total parameters. The dashed line is the Pareto frontier: no model is both better and cheaper than a point on it.

open / restricted weights closed Pareto frontier (10 models)bubble = total parameters

Frontier models 10

Pareto frontier
Modelindex on Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexRanktotal parametersProviderTrust
GLM 5.3Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · Open weights44.97753.3BIndependent
GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai (Zhipu AI) · Open weights41.912321.3BIndependent
Qwen3.8 27BQwen · Open weights33.93427.8BIndependent
Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle · Open weights16.714625.8BIndependent
Qwen3.5-9BQwen · Open weights13.71749.65BIndependent
Qwen3.5-4BQwen · Open weights13.11834.66BIndependent
LFM2.5-2.6B (free)Liquid AI · Open weights8.392792.7BIndependent
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5BDeepSeek · Open weights5.514141.78BIndependent
LFM2.5-1.2B-InstructLiquid AI · Open weights5.214401.17BIndependent
Qwen3-0.6BQwen · Open weights4.83463751.6MIndependent

Methodology. Points are the best current row per canonical model in comparability group 'index'. Price = cheapest current offer across providers (the provider shown). Pareto frontier maximises the score and minimises x; exact ties are all kept. memory_estimate is an estimate (see /methodology). Only the selected comparability group is plotted; points under other configurations are not mixed in. Price = cheapest current offer across providers at the time of the last crawl. Nothing is estimated except where marked.