LMArena Text: hard prompts in English leaderboard
- Gemini 4 Argon leads
- 1548
- models measured
- 156
- lead over #2
- +12 Elo
- median
- 1431
Leader on LMArena Text: hard prompts in English · read October 21
On October 21, 2026, 156 of our catalog's models had a LMArena Text: hard prompts in English result, and Google Gemini 4 Argon led with 1548.
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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 | 1548 | 1,208 | ±17.3 | 80.5 | $10.00 | |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | 1535 | 2,275 | ±13.1 | 92.2 | $20.00 | |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 1530 | 23,533 | ±5.2 | 66.9 | $25.00 | |
| 4 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | 1523 | 8,691 | ±7.3 | 81.8 | $25.00 | |
| 5 | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | 1522 | 3,681 | ±10.3 | 89.1 | $50.00 | |
| 6 | MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi | 1520 | 940 | ±18.8 | 72.6 | $0.87 | |
| 7 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 1509 | 12,023 | ±6.3 | 82.1 | $50.00 | |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic | 1508 | 20,828 | ±5.6 | 51.1 | $25.00 | |
| 9 | Muse WonderMeta | 1506 | 1,282 | ±16.7 | 64.5 | $20.00 | |
| 10 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | 1504 | 10,412 | ±6.9 | 70.5 | $4.125 | |
| 11 | Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen | 1503 | 7,434 | ±7.6 | 63.5 | $6.00 | |
| 12 | Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | 1502 | 1,914 | ±13.9 | 88.9 | $10.00 | |
| 13 | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | 1500 | 4,884 | ±9.0 | 79.7 | $4.25 | |
| 14 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI | 1496 | 8,333 | ±7.2 | 61.8 | $11.936 | |
| 15 | GLM 5.3Z.ai | 1496 | 6,109 | ±8.2 | 73.1 | $1.40 | |
| 16 | MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi | 1494 | 21,733 | ±5.3 | 40.0 | $0.609 | |
| 17 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 1493 | 21,354 | ±5.4 | 57.8 | $15.00 | |
| 18 | MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi | 1493 | 2,917 | ±11.3 | 61.9 | $0.28 | |
| 19 | GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai | 1488 | 8,456 | ±7.3 | 71.0 | $0.50 | |
| 20 | DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | 1488 | 3,257 | ±10.6 | 77.2 | $0.525 | |
| 21 | Muse Spark 1.2Meta | 1487 | 2,442 | ±12.2 | 65.1 | $4.25 | |
| 22 | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | 1487 | 7,632 | ±7.6 | 69.9 | $3.75 | |
| 23 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | 1487 | 18,802 | ±5.7 | 66.0 | $25.00 | |
| 24 | Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle | 1484 | 10,120 | ±6.8 | 48.3 | $3.75 | |
| 25 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | 1483 | 21,950 | ±5.4 | 67.8 | $30.00 | |
| 26 | Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle | 1483 | 13,780 | ±6.0 | 42.8 | $9.00 | |
| 27 | GLM 5.1Z.ai | 1482 | 18,277 | ±5.4 | 44.0 | $4.40 | |
| 28 | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | 1482 | 18,761 | ±5.2 | 66.8 | $25.00 | |
| 29 | GLM 5.2Z.ai | 1481 | 13,844 | ±6.0 | 57.7 | $7.00 | |
| 30 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 1480 | 37,705 | ±4.5 | 35.3 | $12.00 | |
| 31 | Muse Spark 1.1Meta | 1480 | 11,922 | ±6.3 | 48.9 | $4.25 | |
| 32 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 1479 | 19,714 | ±5.6 | 37.7 | $15.00 | |
| 33 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | 1477 | 10,914 | ±6.6 | 76.7 | $20.00 | |
| 34 | Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | 1471 | 21,152 | ±4.8 | 59.1 | $15.00 | |
| 35 | Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI | 1471 | 12,470 | ±6.5 | 44.2 | $3.41 | |
| 36 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek | 1466 | 17,839 | ±5.8 | 35.3 | $1.9105 | |
| 37 | GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | 1465 | 11,785 | ±6.4 | 69.0 | $12.00 | |
| 38 | GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | 1465 | 1,655 | ±15.0 | 88.7 | $10.00 | |
| 39 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | 1464 | 3,256 | ±10.8 | 88.7 | $50.00 | |
| 40 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | 1464 | 14,053 | ±6.0 | 63.5 | $10.00 | |
| 41 | Grok 4.5xAI | 1464 | 10,720 | ±6.7 | 75.5 | $6.00 | |
| 42 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek | 1463 | 2,490 | ±12.0 | 54.6 | $1.98 | |
| 43 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 1462 | 8,815 | ±6.9 | 53.3 | $10.00 | |
| 44 | Qwen3.8 27BQwen | 1461 | 6,237 | ±8.1 | 73.6 | $1.35 | |
| 45 | MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi | 1461 | 15,061 | ±6.3 | 34.0 | $0.238 | |
| 46 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 1460 | 21,040 | ±5.2 | 58.5 | $2.50 | |
| 47 | Qwen3.7 PlusQwen | 1460 | 12,134 | ±6.4 | Not benchmarked | $1.28 | |
| 48 | GLM 5Z.ai | 1460 | 8,278 | ±7.0 | 59.7 | $3.20 | |
| 49 | GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | 1460 | 10,956 | ±6.6 | 61.5 | $1.20 | |
| 50 | Gemma 4 31BGoogle | 1456 | 1,328 | ±15.7 | 38.3 | $0.40 | |
| 51 | GLM 5V TurboZ.ai | 1456 | 2,950 | ±11.0 | 28.8 | $4.00 | |
| 52 | Qwen3.6 PlusQwen | 1455 | 15,348 | ±6.1 | 37.4 | $1.95 | |
| 53 | Hy3Tencent | 1455 | 3,247 | ±10.5 | 43.9 | $0.528 | |
| 54 | MiniMax M3MiniMax | 1455 | 18,479 | ±5.6 | 57.8 | $1.20 | |
| 55 | Step 5 PreviewStepFun | 1454 | 2,022 | ±13.2 | 71.4 | $2.70 | |
| 56 | Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | 1453 | 3,663 | ±10.3 | Not benchmarked | $2.40 | |
| 57 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | 1453 | 28,958 | ±4.1 | 37.0 | $10.00 | |
| 58 | GLM 4.7Z.ai | 1452 | 2,699 | ±11.3 | 33.6 | $1.98 | |
| 59 | Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic | 1451 | 10,730 | ±6.2 | 27.2 | $75.00 | |
| 60 | R Beam 1.0 501B A23BReflection | 1451 | 1,048 | ±18.1 | 33.8 | $1.00 | |
| 61 | Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen | 1450 | 28,085 | ±4.7 | 28.6 | $2.34 | |
| 62 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek | 1449 | 16,217 | ±6.0 | 54.6 | $0.182 | |
| 63 | T InklingThinking Machines | 1448 | 11,262 | ±6.6 | 49.7 | $4.05 | |
| 64 | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle | 1448 | 1,276 | ±15.8 | 22.8 | $0.255 | |
| 65 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 1446 | 9,597 | ±6.4 | 54.4 | $0.42 | |
| 66 | Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI | 1445 | 3,854 | ±10.0 | 9.2 | $7.50 | |
| 67 | GLM 4.6Z.ai | 1445 | 8,251 | ±6.9 | 52.2 | $2.20 | |
| 68 | Grok 4.6xAI | 1445 | 7,999 | ±7.4 | 76.4 | $6.00 | |
| 69 | DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 1444 | 2,060 | ±12.9 | 55.0 | $0.41 | |
| 70 | Mistral Large 4Mistral AI | 1442 | 2,312 | ±12.5 | 55.3 | $4.18 | |
| 71 | MiniMax M2.7MiniMax | 1441 | 24,068 | ±5.0 | 28.4 | $1.20 | |
| 72 | Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle | 1440 | 9,644 | ±7.0 | 33.6 | $2.50 | |
| 73 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen | 1439 | 2,499 | ±12.7 | Not benchmarked | $1.90 | |
| 74 | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | 1435 | 41,092 | ±3.9 | 49.8 | $5.00 | |
| 75 | Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI | 1435 | 23,170 | ±4.4 | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 76 | DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDeepSeek | 1432 | 729 | ±21.4 | Not benchmarked | $1.00 | |
| 77 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Qwen | 1432 | 1,717 | ±14.1 | Not benchmarked | $3.50 | |
| 78 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructQwen | 1431 | 5,217 | ±8.3 | Not benchmarked | $1.10 | |
| 79 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10BQwen | 1431 | 8,670 | ±6.9 | 22.9 | $2.08 | |
| 80 | GPT-5.2OpenAI | 1431 | 13,037 | ±5.9 | 58.9 | $14.00 | |
| 81 | T Inkling SmallThinking Machines | 1429 | 9,094 | ±7.1 | 29.9 | $1.20 | |
| 82 | GLM 4.5Z.ai | 1429 | 4,831 | ±8.7 | 64.2 | $2.20 | |
| 83 | Qwen3.5-27BQwen | 1429 | 8,340 | ±7.0 | 22.6 | $2.16 | |
| 84 | Grok 4.7xAI | 1427 | 3,251 | ±10.9 | 75.0 | $6.00 | |
| 85 | Solar Pro 4Upstage | 1427 | 5,924 | ±8.3 | 24.4 | $0.60 | |
| 86 | R1 0528DeepSeek | 1422 | 3,106 | ±10.8 | 71.4 | $2.15 | |
| 87 | Step 3.5 FlashStepFun | 1421 | 16,231 | ±5.6 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 88 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | 1420 | 28,913 | ±4.1 | 28.7 | $2.50 | |
| 89 | GPT-6 SolOpenAI | 1420 | 3,341 | ±10.9 | 82.8 | $10.00 | |
| 90 | GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI | 1420 | 19,855 | ±5.6 | 28.2 | $4.50 | |
| 91 | GPT-5OpenAI | 1419 | 6,656 | ±7.7 | 72.2 | $10.00 | |
| 92 | Hy3 previewTencent | 1416 | 2,316 | ±12.5 | 22.4 | $0.60 | |
| 93 | o3OpenAI | 1411 | 12,104 | ±6.1 | 70.7 | $8.00 | |
| 94 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen | 1411 | 8,844 | ±6.8 | 7.7 | $1.00 | |
| 95 | GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | 1410 | 15,274 | ±6.2 | 71.4 | $0.50 | |
| 96 | Qwen3.5-FlashQwen | 1409 | 18,206 | ±5.6 | 6.2 | $0.26 | |
| 97 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Qwen | 1406 | 4,747 | ±8.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 98 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle | 1403 | 19,972 | ±5.5 | 8.1 | $1.50 | |
| 99 | Grok 4.3xAI | 1402 | 22,445 | ±5.4 | 22.5 | $2.50 | |
| 100 | Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | 1397 | 1,768 | ±13.6 | Not benchmarked | $2.40 | |
| 101 | GPT-4.1OpenAI | 1393 | 10,441 | ±6.3 | 46.5 | $8.00 | |
| 102 | GLM 4.6VZ.ai | 1391 | 640 | ±22.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.90 | |
| 103 | GLM 4.5 AirZ.ai | 1388 | 6,579 | ±7.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.85 | |
| 104 | GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI | 1387 | 19,932 | ±5.7 | Not benchmarked | $1.25 | |
| 105 | Nova 2 LiteAmazon | 1385 | 2,746 | ±11.2 | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 106 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingQwen | 1384 | 3,018 | ±10.7 | Not benchmarked | $1.20 | |
| 107 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | 1384 | 12,185 | ±6.3 | 59.4 | $0.95 | |
| 108 | GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | 1383 | 5,601 | ±8.2 | 59.8 | $2.00 | |
| 109 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwen | 1380 | 5,143 | ±8.7 | 50.0 | $1.00 | |
| 110 | MiniMax M2MiniMax | 1376 | 1,649 | ±14.3 | 45.3 | $1.02 | |
| 111 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA | 1376 | 3,356 | ±10.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.24 | |
| 112 | o3 MiniOpenAI | 1375 | 2,944 | ±10.9 | 52.1 | $4.40 | |
| 113 | Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI | 1374 | 6,364 | ±7.8 | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 114 | Mercury 2Inception | 1374 | 722 | ±21.3 | 0.0 | $0.75 | |
| 115 | o1OpenAI | 1372 | 4,238 | ±9.4 | 61.7 | $60.00 | |
| 116 | GLM 4.7 FlashZ.ai | 1369 | 2,556 | ±11.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 117 | gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | 1368 | 6,479 | ±7.7 | 34.5 | $0.60 | |
| 118 | o4 MiniOpenAI | 1366 | 9,115 | ±6.7 | 68.6 | $4.40 | |
| 119 | GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI | 1362 | 7,670 | ±7.2 | 28.5 | $1.60 | |
| 120 | GLM 4.5VZ.ai | 1357 | 1,008 | ±18.0 | Not benchmarked | $1.80 | |
| 121 | Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AI | 1356 | 9,948 | ±7.0 | 5.4 | $0.80 | |
| 122 | MiniMax M1MiniMax | 1353 | 6,994 | ±7.3 | Not benchmarked | $2.20 | |
| 123 | Gemma 3 27BGoogle | 1353 | 8,933 | ±6.6 | 4.9 | $0.35 | |
| 124 | Qwen3 32BQwen | 1350 | 729 | ±20.6 | 40.0 | $0.28 | |
| 125 | Granite 4.2 8BIBM Granite | 1345 | 900 | ±21.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.25 | |
| 126 | GPT-5 NanoOpenAI | 1338 | 1,696 | ±14.4 | 34.8 | $0.40 | |
| 127 | Command ACohere | 1335 | 11,260 | ±6.0 | Not benchmarked | $10.00 | |
| 128 | Qwen-PlusQwen | 1333 | 964 | ±17.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.78 | |
| 129 | Qwen3 30B A3BQwen | 1329 | 5,160 | ±8.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 130 | Gemma 3 12BGoogle | 1318 | 700 | ±20.6 | Not benchmarked | $0.15 | |
| 131 | Llama 4 MaverickMeta Llama | 1295 | 7,690 | ±7.3 | 18.1 | $0.6525 | |
| 132 | Llama 4 ScoutMeta Llama | 1293 | 5,734 | ±8.2 | 9.1 | $0.30 | |
| 133 | GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI | 1293 | 19,579 | ±6.4 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 134 | GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI | 1293 | 1,062 | ±17.0 | 8.9 | $0.40 | |
| 135 | gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | 1292 | 2,081 | ±13.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.09 | |
| 136 | Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI | 1290 | 6,526 | ±7.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.555 | |
| 137 | Qwen2.5 72B InstructQwen | 1279 | 6,208 | ±7.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 138 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI | 1278 | 11,355 | ±6.4 | 3.6 | $0.60 | |
| 139 | GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI | 1277 | 8,010 | ±7.7 | 23.1 | $10.00 | |
| 140 | Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta Llama | 1277 | 9,545 | ±6.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.32 | |
| 141 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructQwen | 1269 | 759 | ±19.3 | 30.5 | $1.00 | |
| 142 | Mistral LargeMistral AI | 1268 | 4,452 | ±8.6 | Not benchmarked | $6.00 | |
| 143 | GPT-4 TurboOpenAI | 1266 | 17,922 | ±7.0 | Not benchmarked | $30.00 | |
| 144 | Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta Llama | 1261 | 9,133 | ±7.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 145 | Nova Pro 1.0Amazon | 1259 | 4,069 | ±8.8 | Not benchmarked | $3.20 | |
| 146 | Gemma 3 4BGoogle | 1253 | 764 | ±20.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.05 | |
| 147 | Mistral Small 3Mistral AI | 1243 | 2,355 | ±11.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 148 | Phi 4Microsoft | 1230 | 3,804 | ±9.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 149 | Nova Lite 1.0Amazon | 1226 | 3,136 | ±10.2 | Not benchmarked | $0.24 | |
| 150 | GPT-4OpenAI | 1209 | 9,838 | ±8.8 | 22.4 | $60.00 | |
| 151 | Gemma 2 27BGoogle | 1206 | 12,606 | ±6.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.65 | |
| 152 | Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | 1203 | 3,050 | ±10.2 | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 153 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta Llama | 1196 | 8,195 | ±7.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 154 | Command R (08-2024)Cohere | 1194 | 1,735 | ±13.2 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 155 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta Llama | 1141 | 1,377 | ±15.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.335 | |
| 156 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta Llama | 1087 | 1,437 | ±14.9 | 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.