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AI model leaderboard: 417 models ranked by blind votes

Which AI model is best, going by LMArena’s blind votes: people put one prompt to two anonymous models and pick the better answer. Every score keeps its margin of error, and beside it sits the list price, so you see what the top costs.

Scores from LMArena, published 20 October 2026, under CC BY 4.0. Prices from each maker’s pricing page, read on 15 October 2026.

Top score
1524Gemini 4 Argon (High) from Google
Models ranked
417
Level with the leader
3
On our price list
1
Published
20 October 2026

Level: the votes cannot separate it from the leader.

On LMArena’s Overall board, Gemini 4 Argon (High) from Google leads with 1524 points from 4,900 blind votes, published 20 October 2026. 2 other models are statistically level with it. None of the models it ranks has an API price on our list yet.

Best AI models overall

Every text prompt on the arena, scored with style control so that a longer or more heavily formatted answer does not win on looks alone.

LMArena scores of 51 AI models, with their 95% intervals, votes and list prices
#ModelScoreVotesPer 1M tokens, in / out
1Gemini 4 Argon (High)Google152495% interval 1515 to 15334,900·
1Muse Wonder (Max)Meta151095% interval 1501 to 15185,099·
1Claude Opus 5.5 (High)Anthropic150995% interval 1502 to 15169,496·
2Claude Fable 5 (High)Anthropic150495% interval 1499 to 150843,399·
2Claude Opus 4.6 (High)Anthropic150395% interval 1499 to 150682,619·
2Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)Anthropic150395% interval 1497 to 150915,623·
2Claude Opus 4.7 (High)Anthropic150195% interval 1497 to 150565,131·
3Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)Google149695% interval 1492 to 150141,423·
4Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic149795% interval 1494 to 150087,372·
4Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)Meta149595% interval 1489 to 150019,323·
6Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic149495% interval 1490 to 149866,185·
6Muse Spark 1.2 (xHigh)Meta149295% interval 1485 to 14999,578·
8Claude Opus 5 (Max)Anthropic149195% interval 1486 to 149633,683·
8Muse Spark 1.1Meta149095% interval 1486 to 149544,815·
8Claude Opus 5 (High)Anthropic149095% interval 1487 to 149469,307·
8Muse SparkMeta148995% interval 1483 to 149514,153·
8Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)Google148995% interval 1484 to 149429,177·
9Kimi K3 (Max)Moonshot AI · open weights148895% interval 1484 to 149334,325·
11Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle148795% interval 1484 to 1490129,523·
12Gemini 3 ProGoogle148695% interval 1482 to 148942,059·
12GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh)OpenAI148595% interval 1480 to 148941,803·
12Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)Google148395% interval 1479 to 148736,079·
12Qwen3.8-MaxAlibaba148395% interval 1478 to 148729,418·
12MiMo-V2.6-ProXiaomi · open weights148095% interval 1470 to 14894,065·
12GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)OpenAI147995% interval 1472 to 14877,453·

Where the ranking comes from

The scores, intervals and ranks are LMArena’s. The prices are ours.

Blind votes
LMArena puts the same prompt to two anonymous models and asks the person who wrote it to pick the better answer. The votes place every model on one scale, where a gap of 100 points means the higher model wins about 64 times in 100.
Style control
The scores discount answer length and formatting, so a model does not climb by writing more or by adding headings and lists.
Shared ranks
A model’s rank is one plus the number of models whose whole 95% interval sits above its own. Models the votes cannot separate share a rank, which is why several can be first.
Settings
A model can appear more than once, at different reasoning settings: the line under its name gives the entry as LMArena lists it. Entries with web search switched on are a different product and carry no price.
Prices
The list price per million tokens from the maker’s own pricing page, read on 15 October 2026. It is a price per token, not per answer: a higher reasoning setting spends more tokens on the same question.

Source: LMArena, leaderboard dataset (revision 9041150e, published 20 October 2026), licensed under CC BY 4.0. We change no score: we add the prices and the links to our model pages.

What each of them costs to run

The price list works three everyday jobs on every model, and our own benchmark runs them on real business tasks to see which pass.

Scores published 20 October 2026