Design Arena — codecategories
Caveat: Head-to-head human votes on generated designs/code, mirrored via OpenRouter.
| # | Model | Score | Observed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI | 1384 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 2 | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | 1369 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | 1344 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 4 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | 1336 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 5 | GLM-5.3Zhipu AI | 1326 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 6 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 1324 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 6 | Muse Spark 1.2Meta | 1324 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 8 | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | 1322 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 8 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | 1322 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 10 | Qwen3.8 MaxAlibaba | 1311 | Sep 4, 2026 | |
| 11 | Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic | 1307 | Sep 5, 2026 | |
| 11 | Grok 4.6xAI | 1307 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 13 | GLM-5.2Zhipu AI | 1306 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 14 | Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle | 1303 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 15 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 1302 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 16 | GLM-5.3-FlashZhipu AI | 1296 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 17 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | 1291 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 17 | Grok 4.5xAI | 1291 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 17 | Muse Spark 1.1Meta | 1291 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 20 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 1290 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 21 | Qwen3.7 MaxAlibaba | 1289 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 22 | Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI | 1286 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 23 | Qwen3.7 PlusAlibaba | 1282 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 24 | GLM-5.1Zhipu AI | 1281 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 25 | Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle | 1277 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 26 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | 1273 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 27 | Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI | 1269 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 28 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | 1265 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 29 | MiniMax-M3MiniMax (minimax.io) | 1263 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 30 | GLM-5Zhipu AI | 1260 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 31 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 1257 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 32 | Claude Opus 4.5 (latest)Anthropic | 1256 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 33 | DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek | 1254 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 34 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 1250 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 35 | Qwen3.6 PlusAlibaba | 1249 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 36 | MiniMax-M2.7MiniMax (minimax.io) | 1247 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 37 | DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek | 1244 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 38 | GLM-5V-TurboZhipu AI | 1242 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 39 | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)xAI | 1234 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 40 | GLM-4.7Zhipu AI | 1230 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 41 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 1225 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 42 | MiniMax-M2.5MiniMax (minimax.io) | 1221 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 43 | MiniMax-M2.1MiniMax (minimax.io) | 1204 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 44 | Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle | 1203 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 45 | Grok 4.3xAI | 1200 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 46 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 (latest)Anthropic | 1196 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 47 | Step 3.7 FlashStepFun (China) | 1194 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 48 | Qwen3.5 397B-A17BAlibaba | 1193 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 49 | GLM-4.7-FlashZhipu AI | 1191 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 50 | Claude Opus 4.1 (latest)Anthropic | 1184 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 50 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 1184 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 52 | GPT-5.2OpenAI | 1183 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 53 | GPT-5OpenAI | 1181 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 54 | Qwen3.5 PlusAlibaba | 1180 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 55 | GLM-4.5Zhipu AI | 1179 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 55 | GLM-4.6Zhipu AI | 1179 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 57 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 1178 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 58 | GPT-5.1 CodexOpenAI | 1166 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 58 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | 1166 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 60 | GPT-5.3 CodexOpenAI | 1158 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 61 | Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55BNvidia | 1156 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 62 | DeepSeek R1DeepSeek | 1152 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 63 | GLM-4.5-AirZhipu AI | 1151 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 64 | MiniMax-M2MiniMax (minimax.io) | 1149 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 65 | Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest)Anthropic | 1128 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 65 | GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | 1128 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 67 | Qwen3 MaxAlibaba | 1123 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 68 | DeepSeek ChatDeepSeek | 1122 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 69 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | 1118 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 70 | Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot AI | 1111 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 71 | GPT-5.1 Codex miniOpenAI | 1107 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 72 | GPT-5 NanoOpenAI | 1098 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 73 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite PreviewGoogle | 1086 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 74 | Qwen3 235B-A22BAlibaba | 1052 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 75 | GPT-4.1OpenAI | 1039 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 76 | o3OpenAI | 1033 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 77 | Mercury 2Inception | 1027 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 78 | GPT-4.1 miniOpenAI | 1007 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 79 | o4-miniOpenAI | 989 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 80 | GPT-4.1 nanoOpenAI | 976 | Sep 21, 2026 | |
| 81 | GPT-4oOpenAI | 874 | Sep 21, 2026 |
Dot = elo on a 848–1410 scale (position, not length). Scores link to model pages; every number keeps its source on the model page.