Best AI Models by Quality (LMArena)
AI models ranked by real human-preference Elo from LMArena — the crowd-voted measure of answer quality. Covers models currently on the leaderboard; pricing and availability are live.
15 models ranked
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1minimax-m3
CNMiniMax · Multimodal · Elo 1528
96
2kimi-k2.6
USB.AI · Text · Elo 1516
90
3kimi-k2.6
CNMoonshot / Kimi · Multimodal · Elo 1516
89
4claude-opus-4.6
USAnthropic · Multimodal · Elo 1503
84
5claude-opus-4.7
USAnthropic · Multimodal · Elo 1500
84
6gemini-3.1-pro-preview
USGoogle · Multimodal · Elo 1488
91
7gpt-5.5
USOpenAI · Multimodal · Elo 1482
82
8gpt-5.4
USOpenAI · Multimodal · Elo 1479
89
9glm-5.1
USB.AI · Text · Elo 1475
89
10glm-5.1
CNZhipu AI (GLM) · Text · Elo 1475
88
11grok-4.20-multi-agent
USxAI · Multimodal · Elo 1474
93
12grok-4.20
USxAI · Multimodal · Elo 1474
93
13gemini-3-flash-preview
USGoogle · Multimodal · Elo 1473
95
14claude-opus-4.5
USAnthropic · Multimodal · Elo 1473
78
15claude-sonnet-4.6
USB.AI · Multimodal · Elo 1471
90
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Rankings use live pricing from OpenRouter plus HotON.ai's composite efficiency score. Pricing is real and updated daily; efficiency, speed and availability are modeled estimates — see our methodology. This list reflects 15 tracked models for this use case.
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