Anthropic · proprietary on Arena · first on Arena 7 March 2024

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16 days in first place

It held first place on Arena in Text (16 days).

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Who held first place

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Credits LMArena.

The open-weights catch-up

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Credits LMArena.

The saturation clock

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Credits Epoch AI.

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Jesse Hawkins, “claude-3-opus-20240229 · Frontier”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 30 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-3-opus-20240229/. Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, CC BY 4.0.

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@misc{hawkins2026frontierclaude3opus20240229,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{claude-3-opus-20240229 · Frontier}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-3-opus-20240229/}},
  note = {Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities \& benchmarking, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-10-30}
}

Arena · LMArena

LMArena, "Arena leaderboard dataset", Hugging Face, revision 4491b06. https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset. CC BY 4.0.

Benchmarks · Epoch AI

Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource]. CC BY 4.0.

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Text: 16 days in first place

place 292 of 419 on 28 October 2026

1st10th100th

On the board: 7 March 2024 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1262 (1259–1265) on 28 October 2026 · 194,909 votes
First place: 26 March 2024 to 11 April 2024 · 16 days
Catch-up: Open weights matched it on 30 July 2024, 126 days after it first took first place: llama-3.1-405b-instruct.

Vision: best place 5

place 144 of 167 on 19 October 2026

1st10th100th

On the board: 29 June 2024 to 19 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1023 (1013–1033) on 19 October 2026 · 15,565 votes

Epoch AI: Claude 3 Opus

released 29 February 2024 · API access

Chess Puzzles 3.0%
GPQA diamond 47.2%
MATH level 5 37.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 4.7%
SimpleQA Verified 12.6%

When each vendor retires it

every model’s dates

Anthropic 5 Jan 2026 claude-3-opus-20240229 · 189 days’ notice, from the deprecation on 30 Jun 2025

Sources

Arena scores come from people voting between two anonymous answers. First place is the highest score; the top two are often within each other’s margin of error. LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, retrieved 30 October 2026; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, retrieved 30 October 2026. Both CC BY 4.0. Retirement dates: each vendor’s own deprecation page, quoted and kept, listed with the record.