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Artificial Analysis Output Speed

Median output tokens per second on the first-party API, measured over the past two weeks.
Artificial Analysis
Gemini 3.8 Flash
#1 right now
291 tok/s
Output speed
24
Models ranked
Sep 24, 2026
Board published

Ranking

Best variant per model, as published. Higher is better.

  1. 1
    Gemini 3.8 Flash
    as “Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)
    291 tok/s
  2. 2
    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
    as “DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Reasoning, Max Effort)
    232 tok/s
  3. 3
    Muse Spark 1.3
    as “Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh)
    228 tok/s
  4. 4
    DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision
    as “DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Reasoning, Max Effort)
    218 tok/s
  5. 5
    GPT-5.3 Codex
    as “GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh)
    145 tok/s
  6. 6
    GPT-6 Luna
    as “GPT-6 Luna (high)
    134 tok/s
  7. 7
    GPT-6 Sol
    as “GPT-6 Sol (medium)
    114 tok/s
  8. 8
    Claude Opus 5.5
    as “Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort, Default Fallback)
    92 tok/s
  9. 985 tok/s
  10. 10
    GPT-5.6 Terra
    as “GPT-5.6 Terra (max)
    83 tok/s
  11. 11
    Claude Sonnet 5
    as “Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)
    79 tok/s
  12. 12
    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
    as “DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Reasoning, Max Effort)
    66 tok/s
  13. 13
    Claude Fable 5.1
    as “Claude Fable 5.1 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback)
    66 tok/s
  14. 14
    Grok 4.6
    as “Grok 4.6 (high)
    61 tok/s
  15. 15
    GLM-5.3
    as “GLM-5.3 (max)
    57 tok/s
  16. 1654 tok/s
  17. 17
    GPT-6 Astra
    as “GPT-6 Astra (max)
    52 tok/s
  18. 18
    Grok 4.7
    as “Grok 4.7 (high)
    52 tok/s
  19. 1949 tok/s
  20. 2046 tok/s
  21. 21
    Qwen3.8 27B
    as “Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh)
    43 tok/s
  22. 2239 tok/s
  23. 23
    Kimi K3
    as “Kimi K3 (low)
    38 tok/s
  24. 2438 tok/s

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Scores as published by Artificial Analysis on the capture date (2026-09-24). Source: artificialanalysis.ai models page data.

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