LMArena Text: expert leaderboard
- Claude Opus 5 leads
- 1554
- models measured
- 155
- lead over #2
- +4 Elo
- median
- 1433
Leader on LMArena Text: expert · read October 22
On October 22, 2026, 167 of our catalog's models had a LMArena Text: expert result, and Anthropic Claude Opus 5 led with 1554, ahead of Google Gemini 4 Argon at 1550.
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| # | Model | Result | Votes | Interval (±) | Evidence | Coding index | Output $/Mtok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | 1554 | 7,725 | ±8.0 | 83.0 | $25.00 | |
| 2 | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | 1550 | 507 | ±26.0 | 81.0 | $10.00 | |
| 3 | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | 1549 | 1,025 | ±18.9 | 88.8 | $20.00 | |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | 1544 | 1,355 | ±16.5 | 84.2 | $50.00 | |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 1544 | 7,529 | ±7.7 | 57.2 | $25.00 | |
| 6 | MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi | 1541 | 463 | ±26.9 | 65.4 | $0.87 | |
| 7 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 1534 | 4,790 | ±9.2 | 79.3 | $50.00 | |
| 8 | Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | 1531 | 851 | ±20.0 | 87.3 | $10.00 | |
| 9 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | 1526 | 4,889 | ±9.2 | 61.6 | $3.75 | |
| 10 | Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic | 1521 | 7,087 | ±8.0 | 67.5 | $25.00 | |
| 11 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI | 1520 | 3,128 | ±10.9 | 62.3 | $15.00 | |
| 12 | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | 1519 | 2,111 | ±13.1 | 57.4 | $4.25 | |
| 13 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | 1517 | 4,661 | ±9.3 | 73.5 | $20.00 | |
| 14 | GLM 5.3Z.ai | 1514 | 2,358 | ±12.5 | 70.6 | $4.40 | |
| 15 | Muse WonderMeta | 1513 | 551 | ±24.2 | 71.9 | $20.00 | |
| 16 | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | 1512 | 3,337 | ±10.8 | 58.0 | $3.75 | |
| 17 | GLM 5.3 FlashZ.ai | 1511 | 3,726 | ±10.3 | 57.7 | $0.50 | |
| 18 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | 1507 | 7,400 | ±7.7 | 71.3 | $30.00 | |
| 19 | Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen | 1507 | 3,256 | ±10.6 | 62.4 | $6.00 | |
| 20 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 1507 | 6,357 | ±8.3 | 64.4 | $15.00 | |
| 21 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | 1503 | 7,057 | ±7.8 | 65.0 | $25.00 | |
| 22 | DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek | 1501 | 1,496 | ±15.2 | 62.5 | $0.84 | |
| 23 | MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi | 1501 | 7,606 | ±7.6 | 31.6 | $0.9152 | |
| 24 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 1500 | 7,391 | ±7.8 | 57.3 | $15.00 | |
| 25 | MiMo-V2.6-FlashXiaomi | 1496 | 1,271 | ±16.6 | 54.7 | $0.28 | |
| 26 | GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | 1496 | 5,245 | ±8.8 | 63.9 | $12.00 | |
| 27 | Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle | 1495 | 5,578 | ±8.5 | 39.8 | $9.00 | |
| 28 | Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI | 1491 | 3,848 | ±9.9 | 52.1 | $4.00 | |
| 29 | Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle | 1490 | 4,212 | ±9.5 | 62.5 | $3.75 | |
| 30 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | 1489 | 1,279 | ±16.5 | 85.1 | $50.00 | |
| 31 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | 1489 | 5,651 | ±8.5 | 57.7 | $10.00 | |
| 32 | GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI | 1489 | 668 | ±22.1 | 82.4 | $10.00 | |
| 33 | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | 1487 | 5,687 | ±8.3 | 44.0 | $25.00 | |
| 34 | GLM 5.2Z.ai | 1487 | 5,377 | ±8.6 | 61.1 | $4.40 | |
| 35 | Step 5 PreviewStepFun | 1485 | 874 | ±19.5 | 61.1 | $2.70 | |
| 36 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 1483 | 13,461 | ±6.2 | 32.3 | $12.00 | |
| 37 | Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | 1483 | 6,086 | ±7.9 | 39.5 | $15.00 | |
| 38 | Qwen3.8 27BQwen | 1479 | 2,763 | ±11.5 | 74.2 | $2.55 | |
| 39 | GLM 5.1Z.ai | 1478 | 6,860 | ±7.8 | 49.2 | $4.40 | |
| 40 | Muse Spark 1.1Meta | 1478 | 5,224 | ±8.8 | 70.3 | $4.25 | |
| 41 | GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | 1478 | 4,673 | ±9.2 | 58.0 | $1.20 | |
| 42 | Muse Spark 1.2Meta | 1475 | 1,014 | ±18.4 | 55.7 | $4.25 | |
| 43 | Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | 1472 | 1,248 | ±16.9 | 30.0 | $2.40 | |
| 44 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 1470 | 2,613 | ±11.7 | 40.4 | $10.00 | |
| 45 | Grok 4.6xAI | 1469 | 3,513 | ±10.5 | 65.7 | $6.00 | |
| 46 | Qwen3.7 PlusQwen | 1466 | 4,714 | ±9.0 | 33.2 | $1.28 | |
| 47 | T InklingThinking Machines | 1466 | 5,015 | ±8.9 | 31.5 | $4.05 | |
| 48 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 1466 | 7,015 | ±7.6 | 38.6 | $2.85 | |
| 49 | Grok 4.5xAI | 1465 | 4,719 | ±9.2 | 58.6 | $6.00 | |
| 50 | Gemma 4 31BGoogle | 1464 | 501 | ±24.8 | 39.0 | $0.40 | |
| 51 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Qwen | 1463 | 423 | ±28.1 | Not benchmarked | $3.50 | |
| 52 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek | 1463 | 5,911 | ±8.4 | 38.7 | $2.976 | |
| 53 | Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen | 1462 | 10,224 | ±6.6 | Not benchmarked | $2.34 | |
| 54 | MiniMax M3MiniMax | 1461 | 7,187 | ±7.7 | 39.2 | $1.20 | |
| 55 | Hy3Tencent | 1461 | 1,358 | ±15.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.528 | |
| 56 | MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi | 1459 | 4,795 | ±9.2 | 50.0 | $0.336 | |
| 57 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek | 1459 | 1,028 | ±18.4 | 56.1 | $1.98 | |
| 58 | Qwen3.6 PlusQwen | 1454 | 4,908 | ±8.9 | 44.1 | $1.95 | |
| 59 | GLM 5Z.ai | 1454 | 2,607 | ±11.6 | 41.7 | $3.20 | |
| 60 | GLM 5V TurboZ.ai | 1453 | 1,213 | ±16.8 | Not benchmarked | $4.00 | |
| 61 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | 1452 | 8,326 | ±6.7 | 19.1 | $10.00 | |
| 62 | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle | 1447 | 455 | ±25.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 63 | R Beam 1.0 501B A23BReflection | 1447 | 390 | ±28.8 | Not benchmarked | $1.10 | |
| 64 | GPT-5.2OpenAI | 1445 | 3,997 | ±9.6 | 55.9 | $14.00 | |
| 65 | Mistral Large 4Mistral AI | 1444 | 965 | ±18.7 | 56.4 | $4.18 | |
| 66 | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | 1443 | 13,942 | ±5.8 | 35.6 | $5.00 | |
| 67 | MiniMax M2.7MiniMax | 1443 | 8,645 | ±7.2 | 36.2 | $1.20 | |
| 68 | GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | 1442 | 6,698 | ±8.2 | 57.3 | $0.50 | |
| 69 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen | 1442 | 596 | ±24.1 | Not benchmarked | $1.90 | |
| 70 | T Inkling SmallThinking Machines | 1441 | 3,973 | ±9.9 | 27.3 | $1.20 | |
| 71 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek | 1441 | 5,408 | ±8.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.28 | |
| 72 | Grok 4.7xAI | 1439 | 1,300 | ±16.5 | 66.7 | $6.00 | |
| 73 | Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic | 1438 | 2,555 | ±11.7 | Not benchmarked | $75.00 | |
| 74 | GPT-6 SolOpenAI | 1437 | 1,447 | ±15.8 | 76.0 | $10.00 | |
| 75 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 1436 | 3,427 | ±10.2 | 30.0 | $0.88 | |
| 76 | GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI | 1435 | 6,342 | ±8.1 | 35.8 | $4.50 | |
| 77 | Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle | 1434 | 4,185 | ±9.7 | 49.0 | $2.50 | |
| 78 | GLM 4.5Z.ai | 1433 | 1,157 | ±17.3 | Not benchmarked | $2.20 | |
| 79 | GLM 4.6Z.ai | 1432 | 2,067 | ±12.9 | 8.8 | $2.20 | |
| 80 | Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI | 1432 | 1,208 | ±16.9 | 25.5 | $7.50 | |
| 81 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10BQwen | 1431 | 2,730 | ±11.4 | Not benchmarked | $2.08 | |
| 82 | Solar Pro 4Upstage | 1428 | 2,674 | ±11.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 83 | Qwen3.5-27BQwen | 1427 | 2,650 | ±11.6 | Not benchmarked | $1.56 | |
| 84 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | 1426 | 8,416 | ±6.6 | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 85 | GLM 4.7Z.ai | 1424 | 807 | ±20.4 | 55.1 | $2.20 | |
| 86 | DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 1422 | 426 | ±28.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.41 | |
| 87 | Hy3 previewTencent | 1422 | 710 | ±21.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 88 | Step 3.5 FlashStepFun | 1421 | 5,330 | ±8.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 89 | GPT-5OpenAI | 1419 | 1,696 | ±14.8 | 38.8 | $10.00 | |
| 90 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructQwen | 1417 | 1,097 | ±17.6 | Not benchmarked | $1.10 | |
| 91 | Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI | 1408 | 6,585 | ±7.5 | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 92 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen | 1408 | 2,804 | ±11.2 | Not benchmarked | $1.30 | |
| 93 | Qwen3.5-FlashQwen | 1407 | 5,840 | ±8.3 | 41.1 | $0.26 | |
| 94 | o3OpenAI | 1402 | 3,019 | ±11.2 | Not benchmarked | $8.00 | |
| 95 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle | 1398 | 6,234 | ±8.2 | 22.7 | $1.50 | |
| 96 | Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | 1398 | 656 | ±21.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.45 | |
| 97 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Qwen | 1397 | 1,174 | ±16.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 98 | GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI | 1396 | 6,387 | ±8.3 | 44.8 | $1.25 | |
| 99 | R1 0528DeepSeek | 1394 | 886 | ±19.7 | Not benchmarked | $2.18 | |
| 100 | Granite 4.2 8BIBM Granite | 1386 | 314 | ±32.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.20 | |
| 101 | Grok 4.3xAI | 1384 | 7,533 | ±7.8 | 37.4 | $2.50 | |
| 102 | GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | 1379 | 1,228 | ±17.2 | 34.2 | $2.00 | |
| 103 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | 1378 | 3,779 | ±10.1 | 37.2 | $1.20 | |
| 104 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingQwen | 1376 | 661 | ±22.8 | Not benchmarked | $1.20 | |
| 105 | GLM 4.6VZ.ai | 1371 | 184 | ±41.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.90 | |
| 106 | GLM 4.5 AirZ.ai | 1370 | 1,471 | ±15.3 | Not benchmarked | $1.10 | |
| 107 | Claude Opus 4RetiredAnthropic | 1369 | 2,283 | ±12.4 | Not benchmarked | $75.00 | |
| 108 | o3 MiniOpenAI | 1364 | 847 | ±20.3 | Not benchmarked | $4.40 | |
| 109 | GPT-4.1OpenAI | 1364 | 2,636 | ±11.6 | Not benchmarked | $8.00 | |
| 110 | Qwen3 32BQwen | 1362 | 236 | ±36.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 111 | o1OpenAI | 1361 | 1,330 | ±16.8 | Not benchmarked | $60.00 | |
| 112 | Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AI | 1359 | 2,910 | ±11.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.80 | |
| 113 | Nova 2 LiteAmazon | 1359 | 788 | ±20.6 | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 114 | Mercury 2Inception | 1358 | 253 | ±35.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.75 | |
| 115 | GLM 4.7 FlashZ.ai | 1357 | 888 | ±19.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 116 | gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | 1356 | 1,402 | ±15.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 117 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA | 1355 | 1,044 | ±18.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.22 | |
| 118 | GLM 4.5VZ.ai | 1353 | 190 | ±41.2 | Not benchmarked | $1.80 | |
| 119 | o4 MiniOpenAI | 1343 | 2,330 | ±12.2 | Not benchmarked | $4.40 | |
| 120 | Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI | 1342 | 1,806 | ±13.4 | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 121 | Gemini 2.0 FlashRetiredGoogle | 1339 | 2,207 | ±12.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 122 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwen | 1338 | 1,351 | ±16.1 | Not benchmarked | $1.50 | |
| 123 | GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI | 1338 | 2,025 | ±12.9 | Not benchmarked | $1.60 | |
| 124 | MiniMax M2MiniMax | 1338 | 301 | ±32.4 | Not benchmarked | $1.02 | |
| 125 | R1RetiredDeepSeek | 1338 | 848 | ±19.7 | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 126 | Qwen-PlusQwen | 1328 | 358 | ±29.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.78 | |
| 127 | GPT-5 NanoOpenAI | 1321 | 338 | ±32.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 128 | MiniMax M1MiniMax | 1317 | 1,633 | ±14.5 | Not benchmarked | $2.20 | |
| 129 | o1-miniRetiredOpenAI | 1316 | 3,191 | ±11.6 | Not benchmarked | $4.40 | |
| 130 | Qwen3 30B A3BQwen | 1314 | 1,342 | ±16.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 131 | Gemma 3 27BGoogle | 1304 | 2,263 | ±12.6 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 132 | Claude 3.7 SonnetRetiredAnthropic | 1301 | 2,147 | ±13.0 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 133 | Command ACohere | 1296 | 2,884 | ±11.1 | Not benchmarked | $10.00 | |
| 134 | Gemini 1.5 ProRetiredGoogle | 1278 | 3,319 | ±11.0 | Not benchmarked | $5.00 | |
| 135 | GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI | 1271 | 328 | ±30.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 136 | Claude 3.5 SonnetRetiredAnthropic | 1264 | 5,042 | ±9.2 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 137 | Llama 4 MaverickMeta Llama | 1259 | 2,016 | ±13.3 | Not benchmarked | $1.00 | |
| 138 | gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | 1258 | 506 | ±26.9 | Not benchmarked | $0.15 | |
| 139 | Mistral Small 3.1 24BMistral AI | 1257 | 1,681 | ±15.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.555 | |
| 140 | GPT-4o (2024-05-13)OpenAI | 1250 | 5,887 | ±10.2 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 141 | Gemma 3 12BGoogle | 1248 | 186 | ±40.4 | Not benchmarked | $0.1625 | |
| 142 | Qwen2.5 72B InstructQwen | 1245 | 2,397 | ±12.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 143 | GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI | 1241 | 2,349 | ±12.7 | Not benchmarked | $10.00 | |
| 144 | Llama 4 ScoutMeta Llama | 1235 | 1,534 | ±15.6 | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 145 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI | 1234 | 3,550 | ±10.8 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 146 | Gemini 1.5 FlashRetiredGoogle | 1233 | 2,116 | ±13.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 147 | Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta Llama | 1225 | 2,917 | ±11.1 | Not benchmarked | $0.72 | |
| 148 | GPT-4 TurboOpenAI | 1223 | 5,195 | ±11.1 | Not benchmarked | $30.00 | |
| 149 | Gemma 3 4BGoogle | 1223 | 208 | ±40.6 | Not benchmarked | $0.075 | |
| 150 | Claude 3 OpusRetiredAnthropic | 1223 | 10,374 | ±9.3 | Not benchmarked | $75.00 | |
| 151 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B InstructQwen | 1221 | 267 | ±32.6 | Not benchmarked | $1.00 | |
| 152 | Nova Pro 1.0Amazon | 1211 | 1,387 | ±15.8 | Not benchmarked | $3.20 | |
| 153 | Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta Llama | 1209 | 2,924 | ±11.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.56 | |
| 154 | Mistral LargeMistral AI | 1208 | 1,510 | ±14.9 | Not benchmarked | $6.00 | |
| 155 | Claude 3.5 HaikuRetiredAnthropic | 1208 | 3,525 | ±10.5 | Not benchmarked | $4.00 | |
| 156 | Phi 4Microsoft | 1203 | 1,124 | ±17.2 | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 157 | Mistral Small 3Mistral AI | 1202 | 754 | ±20.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 158 | Nova Lite 1.0Amazon | 1201 | 1,138 | ±16.7 | Not benchmarked | $0.24 | |
| 159 | Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | 1183 | 1,094 | ±17.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 160 | Command R (08-2024)Cohere | 1173 | 524 | ±24.3 | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 161 | Claude 3 SonnetRetiredAnthropic | 1172 | 5,614 | ±11.8 | Not benchmarked | $15.00 | |
| 162 | Gemma 2 27BGoogle | 1171 | 4,025 | ±10.5 | Not benchmarked | $0.65 | |
| 163 | GPT-4OpenAI | 1149 | 2,160 | ±15.3 | Not benchmarked | $60.00 | |
| 164 | Claude 3 HaikuRetiredAnthropic | 1148 | 6,336 | ±10.8 | Not benchmarked | $1.25 | |
| 165 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta Llama | 1144 | 2,589 | ±12.2 | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 166 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta Llama | 1090 | 499 | ±24.2 | Not benchmarked | $0.3325 | |
| 167 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta Llama | 1007 | 487 | ±27.0 | Not benchmarked | $0.201 |
Only models in our catalog are listed, and each appears once with its best published run. 184 rows were read from the source on October 22, 2026, and rows that match no catalog model are left out. Every other column is a figure the board publishes for the same run.