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— LLM Leaderboard —

Ranked by the people
who use them.

Community-driven rankings of the leading large language models, scored by accredited AI practitioners across the capabilities that matter in real work — reasoning, engineering and conversation. No vendor benchmarks, no marketing claims. Just the verdict of the people who build with them every day.

— Overall standings —

The models out
in front.

1
AnthropicAnthropic

Claude Fable 5

98/100
Overall
2
AnthropicAnthropic

Claude Opus 4.8

97/100
Overall
3
OpenAIOpenAI

GPT-5.5

95/100
Overall
— Capability by capability —

Where each model
actually wins.

The top five performers in every category, scored on the work practitioners do most.

Professional Reasoning

Complex problem-solving and analytical judgement in real-world scenarios.

  • Claude Fable 598
  • Claude Opus 4.896
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro95
  • GPT-5.595
  • Claude Opus 4.794

Software Engineering

Code generation, debugging and algorithmic thinking under real constraints.

  • Claude Fable 599
  • Claude Opus 4.897
  • Claude Opus 4.794
  • GPT-5.594
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro92

Conversational Intelligence

Reading intent, tone and nuance across natural language exchanges.

  • Claude Opus 4.897
  • Claude Fable 596
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro96
  • GPT-5.595
  • Claude Opus 4.793
— Top ranked —

The top-rated
models.

The highest-rated models, side by side. Tap any score column to re-rank the board by that capability.

#Model
1
Anthropic
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
98999698
2
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic
96979797
3
OpenAI
GPT-5.5
OpenAI
95949595
4
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic
94949394
5
Google
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google
95929694
6
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
90919291
7
Google
Gemini 3 Pro
Google
92899391
8
OpenAI
GPT-5.4
OpenAI
92909291
9
OpenAI
GPT-5.2
OpenAI
90889190
10
Qwen
Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen
91908990
11
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
89889189
12
DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4 ProMax
DeepSeek
90898889
13
Z.ai
GLM-5.1
Z.ai
89898889
14
xAI
Grok 4.20
xAI
90889089
15
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
88889089
16
Google
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google
88888988
17
OpenAI
GPT-5
OpenAI
88859088
18
OpenAI
GPT-5.1
OpenAI
89848987
19
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
85868786
20
Google
Gemini 3 Flash
Google
86848886
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