{
 "title": "Best LLMs Ranked (October 2026): LMArena Top 30",
 "description": "Top 30 large language models by LMArena Text Arena score, with votes, license, API price and context window.",
 "url": "https://stackloom-ai.pages.dev/rankings/best-llms/",
 "data_checked_on": "2026-10-21",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "LMArena Text Arena leaderboard (overall), updated Oct 20, 2026",
   "url": "https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text"
  }
 ],
 "methodology": "Scores are LMArena Elo-style ratings from blind, crowd-sourced head-to-head votes (overall text category). ±N is LMArena's 95% confidence interval; models whose intervals overlap are statistically tied. \"Preliminary\" means few votes so far. Price ($ input / $ output per 1M tokens) and context are as shown on LMArena. We did not run our own benchmarks.",
 "columns": [
  "rank",
  "model",
  "organization",
  "arena_score",
  "votes",
  "price_usd_per_1m_in_out",
  "context",
  "license"
 ],
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  {
   "rank": 1,
   "model": "Gemini 4 Argon (High)",
   "organization": "Google",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1524,
   "ci_95": 9,
   "preliminary": true,
   "votes": 4900,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$2 / $10",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 2,
   "model": "Muse Wonder (Max)",
   "organization": "Meta",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1510,
   "ci_95": 9,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 5099,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$4 / $20",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 3,
   "model": "Claude Opus 5.5 (High)",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1509,
   "ci_95": 7,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 9496,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$4 / $20",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 4,
   "model": "Claude Fable 5 (High)",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1504,
   "ci_95": 4,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 43399,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$10 / $50",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 5,
   "model": "Claude Opus 4.6 (High)",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1503,
   "ci_95": 3,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 82619,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$5 / $25",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 6,
   "model": "Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1503,
   "ci_95": 6,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 15623,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$10 / $50",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 7,
   "model": "Claude Opus 4.7 (High)",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1501,
   "ci_95": 4,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 65131,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$5 / $25",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 8,
   "model": "Claude Opus 4.6",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1497,
   "ci_95": 3,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 87372,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$5 / $25",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 9,
   "model": "Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)",
   "organization": "Google",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1496,
   "ci_95": 5,
   "preliminary": true,
   "votes": 41423,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$0.75 / $3.75",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 10,
   "model": "Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)",
   "organization": "Meta",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1495,
   "ci_95": 5,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 19323,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$1.25 / $4.25",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 11,
   "model": "Claude Opus 4.7",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1494,
   "ci_95": 4,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 66185,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$5 / $25",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 12,
   "model": "Muse Spark 1.2 (xHigh)",
   "organization": "Meta",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1492,
   "ci_95": 7,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 9578,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$1.25 / $4.25",
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "rank": 13,
   "model": "Claude Opus 5 (Max)",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1491,
   "ci_95": 5,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 33683,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$5 / $25",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 14,
   "model": "Muse Spark 1.1",
   "organization": "Meta",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1490,
   "ci_95": 4,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 44815,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$1.25 / $4.25",
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "rank": 15,
   "model": "Claude Opus 5 (High)",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1490,
   "ci_95": 4,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 69307,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$5 / $25",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 16,
   "model": "Muse Spark",
   "organization": "Meta",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1489,
   "ci_95": 6,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 14153,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": null,
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "rank": 17,
   "model": "Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)",
   "organization": "Google",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1489,
   "ci_95": 5,
   "preliminary": true,
   "votes": 29177,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$0.75 / $3.75",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 18,
   "model": "Kimi K3 (Max)",
   "organization": "Moonshot",
   "license": "Kimi K3 license",
   "arena_score": 1488,
   "ci_95": 5,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 34325,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": null,
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "rank": 19,
   "model": "Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview",
   "organization": "Google",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1487,
   "ci_95": 3,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 129523,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$1 / $6",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 20,
   "model": "Gemini 3 Pro",
   "organization": "Google",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1485,
   "ci_95": 4,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 42059,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$2 / $12",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 21,
   "model": "GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh)",
   "organization": "OpenAI",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1484,
   "ci_95": 4,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 41803,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$4 / $20",
   "context": null
  },
  {
   "rank": 22,
   "model": "Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)",
   "organization": "Google",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1483,
   "ci_95": 4,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 36079,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$0.75 / $3.75",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 23,
   "model": "Qwen3.8-Max",
   "organization": "Alibaba",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1483,
   "ci_95": 5,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 29418,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$2 / $6",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 24,
   "model": "GPT-5.5 (High)",
   "organization": "OpenAI",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1481,
   "ci_95": 4,
   "preliminary": false,
   "votes": 69340,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$5 / $30",
   "context": "1.1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 25,
   "model": "Claude Opus 4.8 (High)",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1481,
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   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$5 / $25",
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   "rank": 26,
   "model": "GLM-5.3 (Max)",
   "organization": "Z.ai",
   "license": "MIT",
   "arena_score": 1481,
   "ci_95": 5,
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   "votes": 24035,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$1.40 / $4.40",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 27,
   "model": "MiMo-V2.6-Pro",
   "organization": "Xiaomi",
   "license": "MIT",
   "arena_score": 1480,
   "ci_95": 9,
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   "votes": 4065,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$0.43 / $0.87",
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   "rank": 28,
   "model": "GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)",
   "organization": "OpenAI",
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   "arena_score": 1479,
   "ci_95": 8,
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   "votes": 7453,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$2 / $10",
   "context": "1.1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 29,
   "model": "Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)",
   "organization": "Google",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1477,
   "ci_95": 4,
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   "votes": 48479,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$0.75 / $4.50",
   "context": "1M"
  },
  {
   "rank": 30,
   "model": "Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)",
   "organization": "Anthropic",
   "license": "Proprietary",
   "arena_score": 1477,
   "ci_95": 7,
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   "votes": 8126,
   "price_usd_per_1m_in_out": "$2 / $10",
   "context": "1M"
  }
 ]
}