LM Leaderboard — July 2026
Large language models ranked by LMSys Arena Elo, MMLU, HumanEval, MATH, pricing, and inference speed. Refreshed regularly with live data from official provider pricing pages, Artificial Analysis, and the Arena.
What is the top LM on the Arena right now?
LMArena (formerly LMSYS Chatbot Arena) tracks pairwise human votes across hundreds of thousands of conversations. Our July 2026 snapshot below ranks 45 language models on Arena Elo plus the standard MMLU / HumanEval / MATH benchmark suite. The Arena re-ranks roughly weekly as votes accumulate; what you see is the most recent snapshot verified against the public Arena and Artificial Analysis.
| # | Model | Quality | Arena ELO | Speed | Price | Context | Value | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic · Frontier agentic coding & knowledge work | 100 | 1525 | 58 t/s | $10 / $50 | 1M | 3.3 | Jun 2026 |
| 2 | Anthropic · Coding, agents & computer use | 99 | 1512 | 72 t/s | $5 / $25 | 1M | 6.6 | May 2026 |
| 3 | OpenAI · Reasoning at any cost | 98 | 1510 | 68 t/s | $30 / $180 | 1M | 0.9 | Apr 2026 |
| 4 | GPT-5.6 New OpenAI · General frontier reasoning & tools | 98 | 1514 | 96 t/s | $5 / $30 | 400K | 5.6 | Jul 2026 |
| 5 | OpenAI · Frontier general purpose | 97 | 1506 | 70 t/s | $5 / $30 | 1M | 5.5 | Apr 2026 |
| 6 | Gemini 3.2 Pro New Google · Long-context & multimodal | 97 | 1508 | 128 t/s | $2 / $12 | 2M | 13.9 | Jul 2026 |
| 7 | Anthropic · Coding & agentic workflows | 96 | 1505 | 68 t/s | $5 / $25 | 1M | 6.4 | Apr 2026 |
| 8 | Google · Science & long-context | 96 | 1505 | 131 t/s | $2 / $12 | 1M | 13.7 | Apr 2026 |
| 9 | OpenAI · Hard reasoning | 94 | 1370 | 68 t/s | $10 / $40 | 200K | 3.8 | Apr 2025 |
| 10 | Alibaba Cloud · Long autonomous agentic runs | 94 | 1488 | 90 t/s | $2.5 / $7.5 | 1M | 18.8 | May 2026 |
| 11 | xAI · Agentic tasks & real-time info | 93 | 1496 | 83 t/s | $1.25 / $2.5 | 1M | 49.6 | May 2026 |
| 12 | Claude Sonnet 5 New Anthropic · Balanced agents & coding value | 93 | 1479 | 98 t/s | $3 / $15 | 1M | 10.3 | Jun 2026 |
| 13 | Google · Multimodal + value | 92 | 1345 | 87 t/s | $1.25 / $10 | 1M | 16.4 | Mar 2025 |
| 14 | Moonshot AI · Frontier quality at low cost | 92 | 1466 | 48 t/s | $0.73 / $3.49 | 256K | 43.6 | Apr 2026 |
| 15 | DeepSeek · Open-weight reasoning value | 92 | 1471 | 62 t/s | $0.5 / $1.1 | 256K | 115.0 | Jul 2026 |
| 16 | Anthropic · Complex analysis | 91 | 1360 | 52 t/s | $15 / $75 | 200K | 2.0 | May 2025 |
| 17 | DeepSeek R1OSS DeepSeek · Cheap reasoning | 91 | 1350 | 35 t/s | $0.55 / $2.19 | 128K | 66.4 | Jan 2025 |
| 18 | Meta · Open-weight general & multilingual | 91 | 1466 | 76 t/s | $0.8 / $2.4 | 1M | 56.9 | Jun 2026 |
| 19 | DeepSeek · Open-source value leader | 90 | 1467 | 33 t/s | $1.74 / $3.48 | 1M | 34.5 | Apr 2026 |
| 20 | Anthropic · Coding & balance | 90 | 1467 | 73 t/s | $3 / $15 | 1M | 10.0 | Feb 2026 |
| 21 | OpenAI · Long context | 89 | 1310 | 120 t/s | $2 / $8 | 1M | 17.8 | Apr 2025 |
| 22 | MiniMax M3OSS MiniMax · Open-weight agentic coding | 89 | 1455 | 80 t/s | $0.6 / $2.4 | 1M | 59.3 | Jun 2026 |
| 23 | OpenAI · Reasoning & math | 88 | 1305 | 155 t/s | $1.1 / $4.4 | 200K | 32.0 | Jan 2025 |
| 24 | Anthropic · Coding & balance | 88 | 1320 | 95 t/s | $3 / $15 | 200K | 9.8 | May 2025 |
| 25 | GLM-5.1OSS Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · Open-weight agentic & tool use | 88 | 1467 | 48 t/s | $0.98 / $3.08 | 200K | 43.3 | Apr 2026 |
| 26 | xAI · Real-time info | 87 | 1330 | 82 t/s | $3 / $15 | 131K | 9.7 | Feb 2025 |
| 27 | DeepSeek V3OSS DeepSeek · Best open-source value | 86 | 1310 | 62 t/s | $0.27 / $1.1 | 128K | 125.5 | Mar 2025 |
| 28 | Alibaba Cloud · Multilingual & APAC | 86 | 1448 | 124 t/s | $1.4 / $5.6 | 256K | 24.6 | Apr 2026 |
| 29 | OpenAI · General purpose | 85 | 1285 | 109 t/s | $2.5 / $10 | 128K | 13.6 | May 2024 |
| 30 | Meta · Open-source value | 80 | 1260 | 135 t/s | $0.2 / $0.6 | 1M | 200.0 | Apr 2025 |
| 31 | Qwen 2.5 72BOSS Alibaba Cloud · Open-source flagship | 80 | 1255 | 85 t/s | $0.3 / $0.9 | 131K | 133.3 | Sep 2024 |
| 32 | DeepSeek · Cheap-and-fast cascade tier | 80 | 1410 | 105 t/s | $0.1 / $0.2 | 1M | 533.3 | Apr 2026 |
| 33 | Mistral AI · Multilingual | 79 | 1250 | 78 t/s | $2 / $6 | 128K | 19.8 | Nov 2024 |
| 34 | xAI · Budget reasoning | 78 | 1275 | 165 t/s | $0.3 / $0.5 | 131K | 195.0 | Feb 2025 |
| 35 | Perplexity · Search + citations | 78 | — | 65 t/s | $3 / $15 | 200K | 8.7 | Feb 2025 |
| 36 | Mistral AI · Code generation | 76 | — | 195 t/s | $0.3 / $0.9 | 256K | 126.7 | Jan 2025 |
| 37 | Mistral AI · Open multimodal | 76 | 1361 | 158 t/s | Self-host | 256K | — | Apr 2026 |
| 38 | Anthropic · Speed & cost | 75 | 1230 | 172 t/s | $0.8 / $4 | 200K | 31.3 | Oct 2024 |
| 39 | Gemma 4 27BOSS Google · Self-hosted general purpose | 75 | 1351 | 142 t/s | Self-host | 128K | — | Apr 2026 |
| 40 | Google · Fastest + cheapest | 74 | 1240 | 244 t/s | $0.1 / $0.4 | 1M | 296.0 | Feb 2025 |
| 41 | Alibaba Cloud · Open-source coding | 74 | — | 125 t/s | $0.15 / $0.45 | 131K | 246.7 | Nov 2024 |
| 42 | OpenAI · High throughput | 72 | 1216 | 183 t/s | $0.15 / $0.6 | 128K | 192.0 | Jul 2024 |
| 43 | Meta · Longest context | 71 | 1195 | 198 t/s | $0.15 / $0.4 | 10M | 258.2 | Apr 2025 |
| 44 | Amazon · AWS ecosystem | 70 | — | 110 t/s | $0.8 / $3.2 | 300K | 35.0 | Dec 2024 |
| 45 | Cohere · Enterprise RAG | 68 | 1170 | 72 t/s | $2.5 / $10 | 128K | 10.9 | Aug 2024 |
How the LLM leaderboard works
We pull official provider pricing every 24 hours, Artificial Analysis benchmark snapshots weekly, and LMSys Arena Elo as it publishes. The composite quality index is a 0-100 normalization over MMLU Pro, HumanEval, and MATH, weighted by recency and cross-validated against Arena Elo. We do not accept vendor-supplied numbers without an independent reference.
Where the leaderboard is wrong
No leaderboard predicts your production accuracy. LMSys Arena rewards style and short-conversation polish; a top-Arena model can still under-perform on your specific function-calling schema or long-context retrieval workload. Build an internal eval harness before you commit. See our LMArena Elo explained and LLM routing writeups for the deep-dive.
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