Best AI Models by Performance (Arena Blind Votes)

People compare two answers to the same prompt without knowing which model wrote them, then vote. Only each model’s best-scoring setting is listed.

RankModelScoreOutput price
1Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic1505 pts$25 per 1M tokens
2Claude Fable 5 Anthropic1505 pts$50 per 1M tokens
3Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic1504 pts$20 per 1M tokens
4Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic1502 pts$25 per 1M tokens
5Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic1501 pts$50 per 1M tokens
6Muse Spark 1.3 Meta1495 pts$4.25 per 1M tokens
7Muse Spark 1.2 Meta1494 pts$4.25 per 1M tokens
8Gemini 3.8 Flash Google1494 pts$3.75 per 1M tokens
9Muse Spark 1.1 Meta1492 pts$4.25 per 1M tokens
10Claude Opus 5 Anthropic1491 pts$25 per 1M tokens
11Gemini 3.7 Flash Google1488 pts$3.75 per 1M tokens
12Kimi K3 Moonshot1488 pts$13.5 per 1M tokens
13Gemini 3.1 Pro Google1487 pts$12 per 1M tokens
14GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI1484 pts$10 per 1M tokens
15Gemini 3.6 Flash Google1483 pts$3.75 per 1M tokens
16GPT-5.5 OpenAI1481 pts$30 per 1M tokens
17Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic1481 pts$25 per 1M tokens
18Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba1481 pts$6 per 1M tokens
19MiMo-V2.6-Pro Xiaomi1480 pts$0.87 per 1M tokens
20GLM 5.3 Z.ai1479 pts$4.4 per 1M tokens
21Gemini 3.5 Flash Google1477 pts$9 per 1M tokens
22GPT-6 Astra OpenAI1476 pts$50 per 1M tokens

Source: Arena text leaderboard (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), released Sep 30, 2026 · CC BY 4.0 / Prices: OpenRouter model list · Rank changes (▲▼) compare with the previous release

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