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Overall index · read October 21
As of October 21, 2026, Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5 leads 77 models that qualify, with 57.6 on the overall index, ahead of Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 (56.0) and Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 (53.4).
| Rank | Model | Overall index | Evidence | Coding index | Output $/Mtok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic | 57.6 | 92.2 | $20.00 | |
| 2 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic | 56.0 | 88.9 | $10.00 | |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic | 53.4 | 89.1 | $50.00 | |
| 4 | GPT-6 Astra OpenAI | 52.7 | 88.7 | $50.00 | |
| 5 | Gemini 4 Argon Google | 52.6 | 80.5 | $10.00 | |
| 6 | GPT-6.1 Sol OpenAI | 51.8 | 88.7 | $10.00 | |
| 7 | Claude Opus 5 Anthropic | 50.8 | 81.8 | $25.00 | |
| 8 | Claude Fable 5 Anthropic | 49.6 | 82.1 | $50.00 | |
| 9 | Muse Spark 1.3 Meta | 48.1 | 79.7 | $4.25 | |
| 10 | GPT-6 Sol OpenAI | 47.6 | 82.8 | $10.00 | |
| 11 | GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI | 47.0 | 76.7 | $20.00 | |
| 12 | Grok 4.7 xAI | 46.4 | 75.0 | $6.00 | |
| 13 | Grok 4.6 xAI | 44.3 | 76.4 | $6.00 | |
| 14 | Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic | 43.4 | 75.9 | $0.50 | |
| 15 | GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI | 42.1 | 69.0 | $12.00 | |
| 16 | Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | 41.8 | 66.0 | $25.00 | |
| 17 | Gemini 3.8 Flash Google | 40.9 | 70.5 | $4.125 | |
| 18 | Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic | 40.7 | 51.1 | $25.00 | |
| 19 | Gemini 3.7 Flash Google | 39.6 | 69.9 | $3.75 | |
| 20 | Muse Spark 1.2 Meta | 39.6 | 65.1 | $4.25 |
How this list is built
Generated from the dataset on every refresh. Nobody picks the order by hand.
Models whose OpenRouter listing takes files as input, ordered by the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, highest first. The index is a composite of evaluations Artificial Analysis runs itself, published on a 0 to 100 scale.
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