RS World Top AI Models

SEPTEMBER 2026 EDITION

Rankings

An independent research of leading general-purpose AI models across Intelligence, Multimodality, Agent, Context, and Price. One model family, one entry.

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01

GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI

Overall94.2

Intelligence

99.0

Multimodality

90.0

Agent

99.0

Context

99.0

Price

57.0

02

Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic

Overall93.6

Intelligence

100.0

Multimodality

75.0

Agent

98.0

Context

94.0

Price

55.0

03

Grok 4.6

SpaceXAI

Overall91.5

Intelligence

96.0

Multimodality

83.0

Agent

93.0

Context

85.0

Price

80.0

04

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google DeepMind

Overall90.8

Intelligence

88.0

Multimodality

96.0

Agent

94.0

Context

99.0

Price

95.0

05

Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba Qwen

Overall89.2

Intelligence

87.0

Multimodality

92.0

Agent

89.0

Context

99.0

Price

82.0

06

GLM-5.3

Zhipu AI

Overall88.9

Intelligence

90.0

Multimodality

70.0

Agent

94.0

Context

93.0

Price

92.0

07

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI

Overall88.3

Intelligence

91.0

Multimodality

70.0

Agent

91.0

Context

98.0

Price

88.0

08

GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI

Overall87.7

Intelligence

96.0

Multimodality

86.0

Agent

95.0

Context

90.0

Price

76.0

09

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic

Overall86.8

Intelligence

94.0

Multimodality

75.0

Agent

95.0

Context

94.0

Price

51.0

10

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

DeepSeek

Overall86.1

Intelligence

85.0

Multimodality

72.0

Agent

91.0

Context

96.0

Price

97.0

11

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google DeepMind

Overall85.5

Intelligence

83.0

Multimodality

94.0

Agent

90.0

Context

99.0

Price

95.0

12

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic

Overall84.7

Intelligence

90.0

Multimodality

74.0

Agent

93.0

Context

94.0

Price

56.0

13

GPT-5.6 Terra

OpenAI

Overall84.4

Intelligence

89.0

Multimodality

83.0

Agent

84.0

Context

90.0

Price

70.0

14

MiniMax M3

MiniMax

Overall83.8

Intelligence

82.0

Multimodality

65.0

Agent

85.0

Context

96.0

Price

95.0

15

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Google DeepMind

Overall82.5

Intelligence

84.0

Multimodality

96.0

Agent

70.0

Context

98.0

Price

65.0

16

Qwen 3.7 Max

Alibaba Qwen

Overall81.7

Intelligence

80.0

Multimodality

70.0

Agent

86.0

Context

91.0

Price

91.0

17

Kimi K2.6

Moonshot AI

Overall80.4

Intelligence

78.0

Multimodality

66.0

Agent

83.0

Context

96.0

Price

91.0

18

GLM-5.3 Flash

Zhipu AI

Overall79.8

Intelligence

77.0

Multimodality

80.0

Agent

86.0

Context

93.0

Price

96.0

19

Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic

Overall79.5

Intelligence

81.0

Multimodality

74.0

Agent

89.0

Context

95.0

Price

70.0

20

GPT-5.5

OpenAI

Overall78.7

Intelligence

82.0

Multimodality

80.0

Agent

88.0

Context

90.0

Price

62.0