What does Artificial Analysis · Quality Index measure?

Artificial Analysis · Quality Index is a knowledge benchmark in the BenchGecko catalog. 131 AI models have been tested on it. Scores range from 2.7 to 59.9 out of 100.

Which model leads on Artificial Analysis · Quality Index?

Claude Fable 5 from Anthropic leads Artificial Analysis · Quality Index with a score of 59.9. The median score across 131 tested models is 27.0.

Is Artificial Analysis · Quality Index saturated?

No · the top score is 59.9 out of 100 (60%). There is still meaningful room for improvement on Artificial Analysis · Quality Index.

Does Artificial Analysis · Quality Index predict performance on other benchmarks?

Yes · Artificial Analysis · Quality Index scores correlate 0.96 with Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam across 66 shared models. Models that do well on Artificial Analysis · Quality Index tend to do well on Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam.

How often is Artificial Analysis · Quality Index data refreshed?

BenchGecko pulls updates daily. New model scores on Artificial Analysis · Quality Index appear as soon as they are published by Epoch AI or the model provider.

Benchmark · KnowledgeSettled

Artificial Analysis · Quality Index

Name: Artificial Analysis · Quality Index Benchmark
Creator: BenchGecko
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Updated 2026-09-29

Models tested

131

Top score

59.9

Claude Fable 5

Median

27.0

min 2.7

Top-5 spread

σ 1.5

Settled

The Frontier

Best score over time · one chart, every benchmark

Chart type

Frontier on Artificial Analysis · Quality Index rose from 5.9 to 59.9 in 17 months · +53.9 points · latest leader Claude Fable 5 from Anthropic.

Pink dots = frontier records · 12 totalClick to open model page

Full rankings

131 models tested · sorted by score

#	Model	Score	Price
1	Claude Fable 5· Anthropic	59.9	$10.00
2	Claude Opus 5.5· Anthropic	57.6	$4.00
3	GPT-5.4· OpenAI	57.2	$2.50
4	Claude Sonnet 5.5· Anthropic	56.0	$2.00
5	Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast)· Anthropic	55.7	$10.00
6	Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast)· Anthropic	53.5	$30.00
7	Claude Fable 5.1· Anthropic	53.4	$10.00
8	Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)· Anthropic	53.0	$30.00
9	GPT-6 Astra· OpenAI	52.7	$10.00
10	GPT-6.1 Sol· OpenAI	51.8	$2.00
11	GLM 5.2· z-ai	51.1	$1.00
12	Gemini 3.5 Flash· Google DeepMind	50.2	$1.50
13	MiMo-V2-Pro· xiaomi	49.2	$1.00
14	Claude Sonnet 4.6· Anthropic	47.2	$3.00
15	Kimi K2.5· moonshotai	46.8	$0.45
16	Grok 4.7· xAI	46.5	$2.00
17	Gemini 3 Flash Preview· Google DeepMind	46.4	$0.50
18	MiMo-V2.6-Pro· xiaomi	46.3	$0.43
19	Qwen3.7 Max· Alibaba Qwen	46.0	$1.25
20	Qwen3.8 Max (0902)· Alibaba Qwen	45.4	$2.00
21	GLM 5.3· z-ai	44.8	$1.40
22	Kimi K3· moonshotai	43.6	$0.67
23	MiMo-V2-Omni· xiaomi	43.4	$0.40
24	U Muse Spark· Unknown	43.1	n/a
25	GLM 5V Turbo· z-ai	42.9	$1.20
26	Kimi K2.6· moonshotai	42.8	$0.95
27	MiMo-V2.5-Pro· xiaomi	42.2	$0.43
28	GPT-5.6 Terra· OpenAI	42.1	$2.00
29	Qwen3.5-27B· Alibaba Qwen	42.1	$0.20
30	GLM 5.3 Flash· z-ai	41.8	$0.15
31	DeepSeek V3.2· DeepSeek	41.7	$0.28
32	MiMo-V2-Flash· xiaomi	41.5	$0.09
33	Gemini 3 Pro· Google DeepMind	41.3	n/a
34	Gemini 3.8 Flash· Google DeepMind	40.9	$0.75
35	DeepSeek V4 Flash· DeepSeek	40.3	$0.03
36	GLM 5.1· z-ai	40.2	$0.97
37	MiMo-V2.5· xiaomi	40.1	$0.14
38	GPT-5.4 Mini· OpenAI	40.0	$0.75
39	Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B· Alibaba Qwen	39.9	$2.00
40	Qwen3 Max Thinking· Alibaba Qwen	39.9	$0.78
41	Qwen3.6 Plus· Alibaba Qwen	39.6	$0.33
42	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash· DeepSeek	39.5	$0.15
43	Grok 4.1 Fast· xAI	38.6	$0.20
44	GPT-5.4 Nano· OpenAI	38.2	$0.20
45	MiniMax M2.7· minimax	38.1	$0.21
46	GPT-6 Luna· OpenAI	38.1	$0.10
47	GLM 5 Turbo· z-ai	38.1	$1.20
48	MiMo-V2.6-Flash· xiaomi	37.9	$0.14
49	Step 3.5 Flash· stepfun	37.8	$0.10
50	Grok 4.3· xAI	37.6	$1.25
51	Qwen3.6 27B· Alibaba Qwen	37.0	$0.32
52	DeepSeek V4 Pro· DeepSeek	36.0	$0.21
53	Qwen3.8 27B· Alibaba Qwen	33.7	$0.42
54	Hy3 preview· tencent	33.6	$0.06
55	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview· Google DeepMind	33.5	$0.25
56	GPT-5.3-Codex· OpenAI	32.5	$1.75
57	I Ring-2.6-1T· inclusionai	30.6	$0.07
58	Step 3.7 Flash· stepfun	29.7	$0.20
59	Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview· Google DeepMind	29.7	$2.00
60	DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale· DeepSeek	29.4	$0.40
61	Gemma 4 31B (free)· Google DeepMind	29.4	$0.00
62	MiniMax M3· minimax	29.2	$0.30
63	Grok Code Fast 1· xAI	28.7	$0.20
64	Solar Pro 4· upstage	28.1	$0.09
65	R1 0528· DeepSeek	27.1	$0.50
66	Gemini 2.5 Pro· Google DeepMind	27.0	$1.25
67	I Ling-2.6-1T· inclusionai	26.1	$0.07
68	Kimi K2.7 Code· moonshotai	25.8	$0.61
69	Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)· Google DeepMind	25.7	$0.00
70	Mercury 2· inception	25.3	$0.25
71	Hy3· tencent	25.3	$0.13
72	Qwen3.7 Plus· Alibaba Qwen	25.2	$0.32
73	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite· Google DeepMind	25.0	$0.25
74	Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)· Alibaba Qwen	24.8	$0.00
75	Solar Mini 4· upstage	24.1	$0.05
76	gpt-oss-120b (free)· OpenAI	23.8	$0.00
77	Qwen3.5-35B-A3B· Alibaba Qwen	23.4	$0.15
78	Nemotron 3 Ultra· NVIDIA	22.9	$0.50
79	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite· Google DeepMind	22.2	$0.30
80	Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite· Google DeepMind	21.6	$0.10
81	Qwen3.5 397B A17B· Alibaba Qwen	21.4	$0.55
82	Mistral Medium 3.1· Mistral AI	21.3	$0.40
83	DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813· DeepSeek	20.4	$0.55
84	o3· OpenAI	20.2	$2.00
85	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)· Alibaba Qwen	19.8	$0.00
86	I Ling-2.6-flash· inclusionai	19.3	$0.01
87	LongCat 2.0· meituan	19.1	$0.30
88	Qwen3.6 35B A3B· Alibaba Qwen	18.2	$0.15
89	Qwen3.5-122B-A10B· Alibaba Qwen	17.8	$0.26
90	Gemma 4 26B A4B · Google DeepMind	16.7	$0.07
91	R1 Distill Llama 70B· DeepSeek	15.9	$0.80
92	INTELLECT-3· prime-intellect	15.6	$0.20
93	Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1· NVIDIA	15.0	$0.60
94	ERNIE 4.5 300B A47B · baidu	15.0	$0.28
95	gpt-oss-20b (free)· OpenAI	14.9	$0.00
96	Granite 4.2 8B· ibm-granite	14.8	$0.06
97	Gemma 4 31B· Google DeepMind	14.7	$0.09
98	Mistral Medium 3.5· Mistral AI	14.2	$1.50
99	Solar Pro 3· upstage	14.1	$0.15
100	Qwen3.5-9B· Alibaba Qwen	13.3	$0.10
101	Command A+· Cohere	13.1	$0.30
102	Qwen3.5 4B· Alibaba	13.1	n/a
103	Nemotron 3.5 Lightning· NVIDIA	12.9	$0.06
104	Nemotron 3 Super· NVIDIA	12.8	$0.08
105	Mercury 2.5· inception	12.3	$0.04
106	gpt-oss-120b· OpenAI	11.6	$0.04
107	Mistral Small 4· Mistral AI	11.3	$0.15
108	Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct· Alibaba Qwen	11.2	$0.09
109	Trinity Large Thinking· arcee-ai	10.8	$0.25
110	Llama 4 Maverick· Meta	10.0	$0.19
111	North Mini Code (free)· Cohere	9.9	$0.00
112	Qwen3 Coder Next· Alibaba Qwen	9.2	$0.12
113	gpt-oss-20b· OpenAI	9.0	$0.02
114	Granite 4.1 8B· ibm-granite	8.9	$0.05
115	N Nanbeige4.1 3B· Nanbeige	8.4	n/a
116	LFM2.5-2.6B (free)· liquid	8.4	$0.00
117	Llama 4 Scout· Meta	8.1	$0.10
118	NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2· NVIDIA	7.4	n/a
119	Command A· Cohere	7.0	$2.50
120	Qwen3.5 2B· Alibaba	6.9	n/a
121	Phi 4 Mini Instruct· Microsoft	6.3	n/a
122	Qwen3.5 0.8B· Alibaba	6.1	n/a
123	Phi 4· Microsoft	5.9	$0.07
124	Phi 4 Multimodal Instruct· Microsoft	5.8	n/a
125	Reka Flash 3· rekaai	5.7	$0.10
126	Granite 4.0 Micro· ibm-granite	5.1	$0.02
127	Molmo2 8B· allenai	5.0	n/a
128	LFM2-24B-A2B· liquid	5.0	$0.03
129	Phi 4 Mini Instruct· Microsoft	3.0	$0.08
130	LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free)· liquid	2.8	$0.00
131	LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free)· liquid	2.7	$0.00