Frontier · first place on Arena, to 28 October 2026

OpenAI held first place in Text for 487 days of 1,269

Text

Now: Gemini 4 Carbon (High), first since 28 October 2026

WebDev

Now: claude-opus-5.5-max, first since 23 September 2026 (35 days)

Vision

Now: claude-fable-5-high, first since 28 September 2026 (21 days)

Text to image

Now: gpt-image-2.5-sunburst, first since 8 September 2026 (48 days)

proprietary open weights · Each block is one model’s time in first place. The board began in May 2023 for Text; the others later.

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.