Anthropic · proprietary on Arena · first on Arena 27 July 2026

claude-opus-5-max

65 days in first place

It held first place on Arena in Text (29 days) and WebDev (36 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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This page

Jesse Hawkins, “claude-opus-5-max · Frontier”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 30 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-5-max/. Data: LMArena, Arena leaderboard dataset, revision 4491b06, CC BY 4.0; Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking, CC BY 4.0.

BibTeX

@misc{hawkins2026frontierclaudeopus5max,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{claude-opus-5-max · Frontier}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/frontier/claude-opus-5-max/}},
  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: 29 days in first place

place 5 of 419 on 28 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 27 July 2026 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1508 (1503–1513) on 28 October 2026 · 35,531 votes
First place: 27 July 2026 to 19 August 2026 · 23 days
27 August 2026 to 2 September 2026 · 6 days
Catch-up: No open-weights model has matched it in the 93 days since it first took first place.

WebDev: 36 days in first place

place 10 of 152 on 28 October 2026

1st10th

On the board: 27 July 2026 to 28 October 2026, the newest snapshot
Score: 1691 (1684–1697) on 28 October 2026 · 19,641 votes
First place: 27 July 2026 to 1 September 2026 · 36 days
Catch-up: No open-weights model has matched it in the 93 days since it first took first place.

Epoch AI: Claude Opus 5

released 24 July 2026 · API access

Chess Puzzles 43.0%
EBR-bench 45.7%
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private 73.2%
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private 85.6%
Furniture Assembly 60.8%
GPQA diamond 93.9%
Mystery Game Puzzles 59.0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 98.9%
SimpleQA Verified 59.9%

When each vendor retires it

every model’s dates

Anthropic not before 24 Jul 2027 claude-opus-5
Azure AI Foundry 8 Jul 2027 claude-opus-5 (version 2)
Azure AI Foundry 8 Jul 2027 claude-opus-5 (version 1)

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.