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Intelligence, speed and price side by side, so you can see what a model actually costs you for the quality it gives.

The smartest right now

ModelMakerIntelligenceSpeedInput / 1MOutput / 1MCost per point
Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)Anthropic57.697/s$4$20$0.14
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)Anthropic56142/s$2$10$0.07
Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback)Anthropic5686/s$4$20$0.14
Muse Wonder Full (Max)Meta55.8–freefree$0.00
Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)Anthropic53.679/s$4$20$0.15
Claude Fable 5.1 (Max, Default Fallback)Anthropic53.473/s$10$50$0.37
Claude Fable 5.1 (Xhigh, Default Fallback)Anthropic53.262/s$10$50$0.38
GPT-6 Astra (Max)OpenAI52.769/s$10$50$0.38

Best value: cheapest per point of intelligence

ModelMakerIntelligenceSpeedInput / 1MOutput / 1MCost per point
Muse Wonder Full (Max)Meta55.8–freefree$0.00
JT-4.1 Flash 236B A21B (Reasoning)China Mobile33.9–freefree$0.00
Motif 3Motif Technologies33.6–freefree$0.00
Motif 3 (Beta)Motif Technologies32.3–freefree$0.00
Muse SparkMeta31.3–freefree$0.00
K2 Horizon 375B A23BInstitute of Foundation Models30.51065/sfreefree$0.00
MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi28.6–freefree$0.00
Qwen3.6 Max PreviewAlibaba28.4–freefree$0.00

Cheapest to run

ModelMakerIntelligenceSpeedInput / 1MOutput / 1MCost per point
Muse Wonder Full (Max)Meta55.8–freefree$0.00
JT-4.1 Flash 236B A21B (Reasoning)China Mobile33.9–freefree$0.00
Motif 3Motif Technologies33.6–freefree$0.00
Motif 3 (Beta)Motif Technologies32.3–freefree$0.00
Muse SparkMeta31.3–freefree$0.00
K2 Horizon 375B A23BInstitute of Foundation Models30.51065/sfreefree$0.00
MiMo-V2-ProXiaomi28.6–freefree$0.00
Qwen3.6 Max PreviewAlibaba28.4–freefree$0.00

Fastest to answer

ModelMakerIntelligenceSpeedInput / 1MOutput / 1MCost per point
Celeris-1Celeris6.31770/s$0.20$0.70$0.05
K2 Horizon 375B A23BInstitute of Foundation Models30.51065/sfreefree$0.00
Mercury 2.5Inception12.3878/s$0.25$0.75$0.03
Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA26.5402/s$0.23$0.57$0.01
Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle22.2398/s$0.30$2.50$0.04
Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AI10.8373/s$0.25$0.80$0.04
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Non-reasoning)DeepSeek24.7360/s$0.30$1.20$0.02
Ling-3.0-flash-FinInclusionAI22.6302/s$0.07$0.22$0.00

Data from Artificial Analysis, refreshed every few hours. Intelligence is their index built from several independent tests. Input is the text you send, output is what the model writes back, both priced per million tokens (a token is roughly three quarters of a word). Cost per point mixes the two prices three to one, the way real use does, and divides by the intelligence score: lower is better value.