{"slug": "kimi-k3-is-ranked-3rd-on-artificial-analysis-only-2-points-behind-sol", "title": "Kimi K3 is ranked 3rd on artificial analysis, only 2 points behind Sol", "summary": "Kimi K3 ranked third on Artificial Analysis' independent AI model intelligence index, scoring only two points behind the leader Sol. The index evaluates models on intelligence, speed, and cost, providing a benchmark for the AI landscape.", "body_md": "# Independent analysis of AI\n\nUnderstand the AI landscape to choose the best model and provider for your use case\n\nHighlights\n\nPersonalized model recommender\n\nGet personalized recommendations based on your priorities for intelligence, speed, and cost\n\nExplore agents for general work, coding, customer support, and more\n\nCompare AI agents across capabilities, pricing, and platform support\n\nExplore premium plans\n\nAccess expanded benchmark data, custom visualizations, industry reports, and more\n\n## IntelligenceUpdated\n\nIntelligence of leading AI models based on our independent evaluations\n\n### Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index\n\n### Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary\n\n### Cost per Intelligence Index Task\n\n### Frontier Language Model Intelligence, Over Time\n\nPerformance, cost, and execution time for leading coding agents on end-to-end software engineering tasks\n\n[Explore Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index](/agents/coding-agents)\n\n### Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index\n\n## Image & Video Leaderboards\n\nTop models from our Image Arena and Video Arena leaderboards, with 95% confidence intervals\n\n### Text to Image Leaderboard\n\n[See the full leaderboard here.](/image/leaderboard/text-to-image)\n\n## Speech Leaderboards\n\nTop models from our Text to Speech Arena, Speech to Text and Speech to Speech evaluations\n\n### Text to Speech Arena Leaderboard\n\n[See the full leaderboard here.](/text-to-speech/leaderboard/provider-voice)\n\nMeasures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries\n\n[Artificial Analysis Agentic Index](/models/capabilities/agentic)\n\n### Intelligence Evaluations\n\nAgentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000\n\nAgentic tool use\n\nAgentic coding & terminal use\n\nCoding\n\nReasoning & knowledge\n\nScientific reasoning\n\nPhysics reasoning\n\nKnowledge\n\n1 - hallucination rate\n\nLong context reasoning\n\n[AA-Briefcase](/evaluations/aa-briefcase)New\n\nAgentic knowledge work, Elo\n\nAgentic SaaS workflows\n\nLegal agentic work, task all-pass rate\n\nAgentic business operations\n\nInstruction following\n\nLong-horizon agentic tasks\n\nKubernetes incident root-cause analysis\n\nVisual reasoning\n\n[AA-Briefcase](/evaluations/aa-briefcase)New\n\nAA-Briefcase is a frontier agentic evaluation for long-horizon knowledge work, testing agents on realistic business workflows that require deliverables such as spreadsheets, presentations, and memos\n\n### AA-Briefcase Elo\n\nAA-Omniscience is a knowledge and hallucination benchmark that rewards accuracy, punishes bad guesses and provides a comprehensive view of which models produce factually reliable outputs across different domains\n\n### AA-Omniscience Index\n\nGDPval-AA v2 evaluates AI models on real-world, economically valuable tasks across a wide range of occupations\n\n### GDPval-AA v2 Leaderboard\n\nArtificial Analysis Openness Index assesses how 'open' models are on the basis of their availability and transparency across different components.\n\n### Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Components\n\n### Artificial Analysis Openness Index vs. Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index\n\n## Output Tokens\n\nOutput tokens of leading AI models based on our independent evaluations\n\n### Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task\n\n## Price and Cost\n\nPrice and real-world costs of leading AI models based on our independent evaluations\n\n### Cost per Intelligence Index Task\n\n### Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index\n\n### Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output\n\n## Speed & Latency\n\nComparison of first-party API performance", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-k3-is-ranked-3rd-on-artificial-analysis-only-2-points-behind-sol", "canonical_source": "https://artificialanalysis.ai", "published_at": "2026-07-16 19:23:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 19:38:39.143447+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Kimi K3", "Sol", "Artificial Analysis"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-k3-is-ranked-3rd-on-artificial-analysis-only-2-points-behind-sol", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-k3-is-ranked-3rd-on-artificial-analysis-only-2-points-behind-sol.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-k3-is-ranked-3rd-on-artificial-analysis-only-2-points-behind-sol.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kimi-k3-is-ranked-3rd-on-artificial-analysis-only-2-points-behind-sol.jsonld"}}