LMArena Text: hard prompts leaderboard
- Gemini 4 Argon leads
- 1546
- models measured
- 156
- lead over #2
- +10 Elo
- median
- 1424
Leader on LMArena Text: hard prompts · read October 21
On October 21, 2026, 156 of our catalog's models had a LMArena Text: hard prompts result, and Google Gemini 4 Argon led with 1546.
Prompts the arena classes as hard: specific, complex, needing problem solving. People ask a question, compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one; the rating is built from those votes, as LMArena publishes it.
Role in the index
We collect this benchmark and show it as supporting evidence. It is not part of the Vibe Coding Index, because it measures something other than coding and the index is about coding. Read the methodology
| # | Model | Result | Votes | Interval (±) | Evidence | Coding index | Output $/Mtok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | 1546 | 3,131 | ±10.9 | 80.5 | $10.00 | |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | 1536 | 5,917 | ±8.5 | 92.2 | $20.00 | |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | 1528 | 9,089 | ±7.1 | 89.1 | $50.00 | |
| 4 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | 1527 | 21,745 | ±5.5 | 81.8 | $25.00 | |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 1525 | 52,600 | ±4.0 | 66.9 | $25.00 | |
| 6 | MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi | 1511 | 2,619 | ±11.5 | 72.6 | $0.87 | |
| 7 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | 1509 | 26,670 | ±5.4 | 70.5 | $4.125 | |
| 8 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 1507 | 28,193 | ±4.9 | 82.1 | $50.00 | |
| 9 | Muse WonderMeta | 1506 | 3,187 | ±10.7 | 64.5 | $20.00 | |
| 10 | Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic | 1506 | 43,676 | ±4.4 | 51.1 | $25.00 | |
| 11 | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | 1503 | 12,510 | ±6.4 | 79.7 | $4.25 | |
| 12 | Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen | 1496 | 19,425 | ±5.5 | 63.5 | $6.00 | |
| 13 | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | 1495 | 19,036 | ±5.6 | 69.9 | $3.75 | |
| 14 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI | 1495 | 21,953 | ±5.2 | 61.8 | $11.936 | |
| 15 | Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | 1494 | 5,015 | ±8.9 | 88.9 | $10.00 | |
| 16 | GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai | 1490 | 22,985 | ±5.5 | 71.0 | $0.50 | |
| 17 | GLM 5.3Z.ai | 1490 | 15,149 | ±6.0 | 73.1 | $1.40 | |
| 18 | Muse Spark 1.2Meta | 1489 | 6,116 | ±8.2 | 65.1 | $4.25 | |
| 19 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | 1489 | 45,527 | ±4.3 | 67.8 | $30.00 | |
| 20 | Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle | 1488 | 32,389 | ±4.5 | 42.8 | $9.00 | |
| 21 | Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle | 1486 | 24,133 | ±5.1 | 48.3 | $3.75 | |
| 22 | MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi | 1486 | 50,452 | ±4.1 | 40.0 | $0.609 | |
| 23 | Muse Spark 1.1Meta | 1485 | 29,563 | ±4.8 | 48.9 | $4.25 | |
| 24 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 1485 | 42,124 | ±4.5 | 37.7 | $15.00 | |
| 25 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 1485 | 84,197 | ±3.5 | 35.3 | $12.00 | |
| 26 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 1485 | 46,227 | ±4.2 | 57.8 | $15.00 | |
| 27 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | 1483 | 27,137 | ±5.0 | 76.7 | $20.00 | |
| 28 | DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | 1483 | 8,655 | ±7.1 | 77.2 | $0.525 | |
| 29 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | 1482 | 42,516 | ±4.5 | 66.0 | $25.00 | |
| 30 | GLM 5.2Z.ai | 1481 | 33,290 | ±4.7 | 57.7 | $7.00 | |
| 31 | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | 1476 | 43,232 | ±3.9 | 66.8 | $25.00 | |
| 32 | MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi | 1475 | 7,817 | ±7.4 | 61.9 | $0.28 | |
| 33 | GLM 5.1Z.ai | 1473 | 42,115 | ±4.1 | 44.0 | $4.40 | |
| 34 | Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI | 1470 | 26,060 | ±5.2 | 44.2 | $3.41 | |
| 35 | GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | 1469 | 29,450 | ±4.9 | 69.0 | $12.00 | |
| 36 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | 1463 | 8,080 | ±7.3 | 88.7 | $50.00 | |
| 37 | GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | 1463 | 4,318 | ±9.6 | 88.7 | $10.00 | |
| 38 | Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | 1462 | 48,301 | ±3.6 | 59.1 | $15.00 | |
| 39 | Grok 4.5xAI | 1462 | 26,637 | ±5.0 | 75.5 | $6.00 | |
| 40 | Step 5 PreviewStepFun | 1461 | 5,502 | ±8.4 | 71.4 | $2.70 | |
| 41 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek | 1461 | 38,504 | ±4.5 | 35.3 | $1.9105 | |
| 42 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | 1461 | 33,444 | ±4.7 | 63.5 | $10.00 | |
| 43 | Qwen3.7 PlusQwen | 1460 | 28,278 | ±5.0 | Not benchmarked | $1.28 | |
| 44 | Qwen3.8 27BQwen | 1459 | 16,357 | ±5.8 | 73.6 | $1.35 | |
| 45 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek | 1458 | 6,526 | ±7.7 | 54.6 | $1.98 | |
| 46 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 1457 | 22,416 | ±4.8 | 53.3 | $10.00 | |
| 47 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | 1455 | 65,892 | ±3.1 | 37.0 | $10.00 | |
| 48 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 1453 | 47,893 | ±3.9 | 58.5 | $2.50 | |
| 49 | Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | 1452 | 7,587 | ±7.7 | Not benchmarked | $2.40 | |
| 50 | GLM 5Z.ai | 1452 | 18,205 | ±5.1 | 59.7 | $3.20 | |
| 51 | GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | 1451 | 26,984 | ±5.0 | 61.5 | $1.20 | |
| 52 | T InklingThinking Machines | 1451 | 27,837 | ±5.0 | 49.7 | $4.05 | |
| 53 | MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi | 1450 | 31,827 | ±4.9 | 34.0 | $0.238 | |
| 54 | Qwen3.6 PlusQwen | 1448 | 32,549 | ±4.8 | 37.4 | $1.95 | |
| 55 | Grok 4.6xAI | 1448 | 20,007 | ±5.5 | 76.4 | $6.00 | |
| 56 | Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen | 1448 | 62,653 | ±3.6 | 28.6 | $2.34 | |
| 57 | Gemma 4 31BGoogle | 1448 | 3,565 | ±9.6 | 38.3 | $0.40 | |
| 58 | Hy3Tencent | 1447 | 8,479 | ±7.1 | 43.9 | $0.528 | |
| 59 | MiniMax M3MiniMax | 1447 | 43,582 | ±4.4 | 57.8 | $1.20 | |
| 60 | Mistral Large 4Mistral AI | 1444 | 5,844 | ±8.2 | 55.3 | $4.18 | |
| 61 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek | 1444 | 34,751 | ±4.7 | 54.6 | $0.182 | |
| 62 | GLM 5V TurboZ.ai | 1443 | 6,952 | ±7.6 | 28.8 | $4.00 | |
| 63 | GLM 4.7Z.ai | 1443 | 6,793 | ±7.7 | 33.6 | $1.98 | |
| 64 | Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic | 1442 | 24,961 | ±4.5 | 27.2 | $75.00 | |
| 65 | R Beam 1.0 501B A23BReflection | 1442 | 2,676 | ±11.6 | 33.8 | $1.00 | |
| 66 | Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle | 1441 | 23,808 | ±5.2 | 33.6 | $2.50 | |
| 67 | GLM 4.6Z.ai | 1440 | 19,444 | ±5.0 | 52.2 | $2.20 | |
| 68 | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle | 1438 | 3,471 | ±9.7 | 22.8 | $0.255 | |
| 69 | Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI | 1436 | 7,650 | ±7.7 | 9.2 | $7.50 | |
| 70 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 1434 | 27,069 | ±4.4 | 54.4 | $0.42 | |
| 71 | GLM 4.5Z.ai | 1429 | 11,114 | ±6.4 | 64.2 | $2.20 | |
| 72 | DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 1429 | 6,580 | ±7.9 | 55.0 | $0.41 | |
| 73 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen | 1428 | 5,704 | ±8.6 | Not benchmarked | $1.90 | |
| 74 | GPT-5.2OpenAI | 1428 | 29,881 | ±4.4 | 58.9 | $14.00 | |
| 75 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructQwen | 1428 | 11,998 | ±6.0 | Not benchmarked | $1.10 | |
| 76 | Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI | 1426 | 52,905 | ±3.3 | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 77 | DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDeepSeek | 1426 | 1,659 | ±14.3 | Not benchmarked | $1.00 | |
| 78 | GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI | 1424 | 41,648 | ±4.4 | 28.2 | $4.50 | |
| 79 | T Inkling SmallThinking Machines | 1423 | 22,270 | ±5.3 | 29.9 | $1.20 | |
| 80 | MiniMax M2.7MiniMax | 1422 | 56,288 | ±3.9 | 28.4 | $1.20 | |
| 81 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | 1422 | 65,128 | ±3.1 | 28.7 | $2.50 | |
| 82 | GPT-6 SolOpenAI | 1422 | 8,512 | ±7.3 | 82.8 | $10.00 | |
| 83 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10BQwen | 1421 | 18,809 | ±5.2 | 22.9 | $2.08 | |
| 84 | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | 1421 | 93,248 | ±3.0 | 49.8 | $5.00 | |
| 85 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Qwen | 1416 | 3,806 | ±9.5 | Not benchmarked | $3.50 | |
| 86 | R1 0528DeepSeek | 1415 | 6,879 | ±7.7 | 71.4 | $2.15 | |
| 87 | GPT-5OpenAI | 1415 | 15,055 | ±5.7 | 72.2 | $10.00 | |
| 88 | Grok 4.7xAI | 1415 | 8,230 | ±7.4 | 75.0 | $6.00 | |
| 89 | Qwen3.5-27BQwen | 1415 | 18,079 | ±5.2 | 22.6 | $2.16 | |
| 90 | Hy3 previewTencent | 1413 | 4,589 | ±9.1 | 22.4 | $0.60 | |
| 91 | Step 3.5 FlashStepFun | 1411 | 37,536 | ±4.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 92 | GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | 1410 | 39,234 | ±5.1 | 71.4 | $0.50 | |
| 93 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle | 1407 | 41,605 | ±4.4 | 8.1 | $1.50 | |
| 94 | Qwen3.5-FlashQwen | 1403 | 40,118 | ±4.4 | 6.2 | $0.26 | |
| 95 | o3OpenAI | 1402 | 25,528 | ±4.8 | 70.7 | $8.00 | |
| 96 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen | 1400 | 19,346 | ±5.1 | 7.7 | $1.00 | |
| 97 | Solar Pro 4Upstage | 1400 | 15,023 | ±6.0 | 24.4 | $0.60 | |
| 98 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Qwen | 1398 | 10,974 | ±6.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 99 | Grok 4.3xAI | 1396 | 47,665 | ±4.3 | 22.5 | $2.50 | |
| 100 | Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | 1386 | 4,396 | ±9.0 | Not benchmarked | $2.40 | |
| 101 | GPT-4.1OpenAI | 1384 | 22,016 | ±4.9 | 46.5 | $8.00 | |
| 102 | GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI | 1381 | 41,305 | ±4.5 | Not benchmarked | $1.25 | |
| 103 | GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | 1380 | 12,861 | ±6.0 | 59.8 | $2.00 | |
| 104 | GLM 4.5 AirZ.ai | 1379 | 14,897 | ±5.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.85 | |
| 105 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | 1372 | 26,855 | ±4.8 | 59.4 | $0.95 | |
| 106 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwen | 1372 | 11,532 | ±6.4 | 50.0 | $1.00 | |
| 107 | o1OpenAI | 1371 | 6,453 | ±7.7 | 61.7 | $60.00 | |
| 108 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingQwen | 1371 | 6,666 | ±7.5 | Not benchmarked | $1.20 | |
| 109 | GLM 4.6VZ.ai | 1367 | 1,532 | ±14.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.90 | |
| 110 | o3 MiniOpenAI | 1365 | 4,386 | ±9.1 | 52.1 | $4.40 | |
| 111 | Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI | 1364 | 13,652 | ±6.0 | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 112 | Nova 2 LiteAmazon | 1364 | 6,632 | ±7.8 | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 113 | gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | 1364 | 14,687 | ±5.6 | 34.5 | $0.60 | |
| 114 | Mercury 2Inception | 1362 | 1,844 | ±13.3 | 0.0 | $0.75 | |
| 115 | MiniMax M2MiniMax | 1357 | 3,748 | ±9.8 | 45.3 | $1.02 | |
| 116 | GLM 4.7 FlashZ.ai | 1356 | 6,739 | ±7.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 117 | o4 MiniOpenAI | 1351 | 19,383 | ±5.1 | 68.6 | $4.40 | |
| 118 | GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI | 1349 | 16,063 | ±5.6 | 28.5 | $1.60 | |
| 119 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA | 1348 | 8,383 | ±7.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.24 | |
| 120 | Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AI | 1342 | 20,054 | ±5.6 | 5.4 | $0.80 | |
| 121 | Gemma 3 27BGoogle | 1340 | 17,704 | ±5.1 | 4.9 | $0.35 | |
| 122 | MiniMax M1MiniMax | 1339 | 15,596 | ±5.5 | Not benchmarked | $2.20 | |
| 123 | GLM 4.5VZ.ai | 1335 | 2,346 | ±12.0 | Not benchmarked | $1.80 | |
| 124 | Qwen3 32BQwen | 1334 | 1,207 | ±15.9 | 40.0 | $0.28 | |
| 125 | GPT-5 NanoOpenAI | 1328 | 3,782 | ±9.7 | 34.8 | $0.40 | |
| 126 | Granite 4.2 8BIBM Granite | 1327 | 2,076 | ±13.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.25 | |
| 127 | Command ACohere | 1326 | 23,764 | ±4.6 | Not benchmarked | $10.00 | |
| 128 | Qwen-PlusQwen | 1317 | 1,481 | ±14.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.78 | |
| 129 | Qwen3 30B A3BQwen | 1314 | 10,646 | ±6.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 130 | Gemma 3 12BGoogle | 1309 | 977 | ±17.6 | Not benchmarked | $0.15 | |
| 131 | GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI | 1286 | 1,669 | ±13.5 | 8.9 | $0.40 | |
| 132 | GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI | 1281 | 32,416 | ±5.3 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 133 | Llama 4 MaverickMeta Llama | 1281 | 15,865 | ±5.7 | 18.1 | $0.6525 | |
| 134 | Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI | 1278 | 14,623 | ±5.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.555 | |
| 135 | gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | 1274 | 4,719 | ±8.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.09 | |
| 136 | Qwen2.5 72B InstructQwen | 1271 | 10,545 | ±6.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 137 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI | 1267 | 18,259 | ±5.3 | 3.6 | $0.60 | |
| 138 | Llama 4 ScoutMeta Llama | 1266 | 12,899 | ±6.2 | 9.1 | $0.30 | |
| 139 | GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI | 1264 | 12,655 | ±6.4 | 23.1 | $10.00 | |
| 140 | Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta Llama | 1257 | 16,963 | ±5.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.32 | |
| 141 | Mistral LargeMistral AI | 1257 | 6,954 | ±7.0 | Not benchmarked | $6.00 | |
| 142 | Gemma 3 4BGoogle | 1253 | 1,092 | ±17.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.05 | |
| 143 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructQwen | 1251 | 1,386 | ±14.3 | 30.5 | $1.00 | |
| 144 | GPT-4 TurboOpenAI | 1251 | 28,310 | ±5.9 | Not benchmarked | $30.00 | |
| 145 | Nova Pro 1.0Amazon | 1246 | 6,300 | ±7.3 | Not benchmarked | $3.20 | |
| 146 | Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta Llama | 1241 | 14,981 | ±5.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 147 | Mistral Small 3Mistral AI | 1233 | 3,569 | ±9.6 | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 148 | Nova Lite 1.0Amazon | 1220 | 4,913 | ±8.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.24 | |
| 149 | Phi 4Microsoft | 1220 | 5,747 | ±7.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 150 | GPT-4OpenAI | 1200 | 13,935 | ±7.7 | 22.4 | $60.00 | |
| 151 | Gemma 2 27BGoogle | 1198 | 20,494 | ±5.2 | Not benchmarked | $0.65 | |
| 152 | Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | 1191 | 4,859 | ±8.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 153 | Command R (08-2024)Cohere | 1186 | 2,822 | ±10.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 154 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta Llama | 1175 | 13,535 | ±6.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 155 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta Llama | 1095 | 2,216 | ±12.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.335 | |
| 156 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta Llama | 1044 | 2,247 | ±12.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.201 |
Only models in our catalog are listed, and each appears once with its best published run. 172 rows were read from the source on October 21, 2026, and rows that match no catalog model are left out. Every other column is a figure the board publishes for the same run.