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What was the top AI model in ?

Claude 3 Opus from Anthropic, scoring 8.7 on the Intelligence Index at $30 per million tokens. It had been on top for 6 months.

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The top 10 on August 31, 2024

Ranked by the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, with each model's price on that day (per million tokens, 3 parts input to 1 part output). The index uses today's harder tests, so models from before late 2024 all score between 5 and 9 and their order is rough.

  1. 1
    Claude 3 OpusClosed
    Anthropic · released Mar 4, 2024 · 6 months old
    Intelligence 8.7
    $30 /M
  2. 2
    GPT-4o (Aug '24)Closed
    OpenAI · released Aug 6, 2024 · 4 weeks old
    Intelligence 7.7
    $4.38 /M
  3. 3
    GPT-4o (May '24)Closed
    OpenAI · released May 13, 2024 · 4 months old
    Intelligence 7.3
    $7.50 /M
  4. 4
    Llama 3.1 Instruct 405BOpen weights
    Meta · released Jul 23, 2024 · 6 weeks old
    Intelligence 7.3
    No public price
  5. 5
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet (June '24)Closed
    Anthropic · released Jun 21, 2024 · 2 months old
    Intelligence 7.2
    $6 /M
  6. 6
    GPT-4 TurboClosed
    OpenAI · released Nov 6, 2023 · 10 months old
    Intelligence 7
    $15 /M
  7. 7
    Llama 3.1 Instruct 8BOpen weights
    Meta · released Jul 23, 2024 · 6 weeks old
    Intelligence 6.9
    $0.04 /M
  8. 8
    Grok BetaClosed
    xAI · released Aug 13, 2024 · 3 weeks old
    Intelligence 6.9
    No public price
  9. 9
    Mistral Large 2 (Jul '24)Closed
    Mistral · released Jul 24, 2024 · 5 weeks old
    Intelligence 6.8
    $3 /M
  10. 10
    GPT-4Closed
    OpenAI · released Mar 14, 2023 · 18 months old
    Intelligence 6.7
    $38 /M

2 years later

What has happened since

#288Where Claude 3 Opus ranks today

445 models have come out since. Today's best is Claude Opus 5.5 at 57.6, 48.9 points higher.

750×Cheaper for the same score

Gemma 4 E4B scores at least as well today for $0.04 per million tokens, against $30 for Claude 3 Opus back then.

6 monthsUntil it cost under $1

Grok 3 mini Reasoning matched it for $0.35 per million tokens on Feb 19, 2025.

5 monthsUntil open weights caught up

DeepSeek R1 (Jan '25) from DeepSeek matched it on Jan 20, 2025, free to download and run.

The race

Which lab held the top spot

OpenAI led for 2.5 years of the 4 years since ChatGPT launched. Anthropic has held #1 since Apr 16, 2026, 6 models in a row. We rank by the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Other leaderboards, such as LMArena's human votes, crown different models.

  • OpenAI65%2.5 years at #1 across 12 models. Longest: GPT-4, 8 months.
  • Anthropic33%15 months at #1 across 11 models. Longest: Claude 3 Opus, 6 months.
  • xAI2%4 weeks at #1 across 1 model. Longest: Grok 4, 4 weeks.
  • Google<1%6 days at #1 across 1 model. Longest: Gemini 3 Pro Preview, 6 days.

The wider field

55 models were out on Aug 31, 2024

Best open model
Llama 3.1 Instruct 405B

Meta, scoring 7.3. #4 overall, 1.4 points behind.

Best under $1 per million
Llama 3.1 Instruct 8B

Meta, scoring 6.9. #7 overall at $0.04, 750× cheaper than #1.

New in the 30 days before · 5
  • Jamba 1.5 Large6
  • Jamba 1.5 Mini5.2
  • Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B6
  • Grok Beta6.9
  • GPT-4o (Aug '24)7.7

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Scores and release dates from Artificial Analysis (Intelligence Index, best published effort of each model), data through October 18, 2026. Prices are list prices on the day, including later cuts we know of. Models without a public price are ranked but not priced.