very good
they removed all the saturated slop benchmarks that were inflating chinese models
Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1: a shift toward agentic workloads, featuring upgraded benchmarks and new per-task metrics
The Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index is our synthesis metric for assessing model intelligence and tracking AI progress. v4.1 marks a broader shift toward agentic workloads, with three main changes:
Updated and reweighted evaluations toward agentic tasks: 1. We upgraded three evaluations, removed one, and reweighted the Intelligence Index: ➤ Upgraded Terminal-Bench Hard to Terminal-Bench 2.1 and τ²-Bench Telecom to τ³-Bench Banking. Both move to newer, more robust task sets with harder, more realistic agentic scenarios that better separate frontier models ➤ Upgraded GDPval-AA to GDPval-AA v2. The upgrade re-baselines Elo to human performance at 1000, introduces a rotating panel of frontier-model judges, and raises the turn limit from 100 to 250 for longer-horizon agent trajectories ➤ Removed IFBench due to saturation. The benchmark no longer distinguishes frontier models sufficiently, so we have removed it from the Intelligence Index. We will continue to run it and publish results on new model releases
2. Cost per Task, Time per Task, and Tokens per Task: Three new per-task metrics, reported for every model and based on the Intelligence Index. We take the total cost, total time, and total output tokens for a model to run the Intelligence Index and divide by the number of tasks across its evaluations, giving the average cost, time, and output tokens to complete a single Intelligence Index task
3. Cached input token reporting: We now report cached input tokens and their impact on cost, including the cost to run the Intelligence Index, to better reflect the real cost of running each model
Key Results: ➤ Leading models: Claude Fable 5 (with Opus 4.8 fallback, 60) leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 by four points but is currently unavailable, leaving Claude Opus 4.8 (max, 56) as the most intelligent available model, ahead of GPT-5.5 (xhigh, 55) ➤ Open weights leading models: Among open weights models, DeepSeek V4 Pro (max, 44) and MiniMax M3 (44) lead, followed by Kimi K2.6 (43) and MiMo-V2.5-Pro (42) ➤Cost per Task: Claude Opus 4.8 (max) is the most expensive available model at $1.78 per task, with Claude Fable 5 the highest overall at $3.25. GPT-5.5 (xhigh) scores within a point of Opus 4.8 on the Intelligence Index at $0.99 per task. DeepSeek V4 Pro (max) stands out on the Intelligence vs Cost per Task chart at $0.04 per task, with other leading proprietary models costing 20x to 45x more ➤Time per Task: time per task (inference decode time) ranges from 1.5 minutes for Grok 4.3 (high) to 13.5 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max), a roughly 9x spread. Claude Opus 4.8 (max) completes a task in 6.4 minutes and GPT-5.5 (xhigh) in 3.7, while Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview stands out on the Intelligence vs Time per Task chart at 1.6 minutes for a score of 46
