Who ranks #1 on the Arena Agent Elo leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic ranks #1 on Arena Agent Elo at 12.20. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 is #1 for Arena Agent Elo at 12.20. Ranked by the Arena Agent Elo score 7 models in this index have a published Arena Agent Elo score. Arena Agent Elo leaderboard with live API prices. Arena Agent Elo — blind pairwise preference rating from Arena.ai agent battles.
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic is #1 for Arena Agent Elo at 12.20. Ranked by the Arena Agent Elo score This board also tracks Arena Agent Elo. Next on the same board: Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. This arena agent elo leaderboard ranks models by Arena Agent Elo. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.
Sources: OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)
| Rank | Model | Arena Agent Elo | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5 | 12.20 | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 2 | Claude Fable 5 | 12 | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| 3 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 10.90 | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| 4 | Kimi K3 | 10.60 | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 9.80 | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 6 | GPT-5.5 | 8.90 | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| 7 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 8.20 | $5.00 | $25.00 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic ranks #1 on Arena Agent Elo at 12.20. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
The current Arena Agent Elo ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Claude Opus 5 at 12.20; 2. Claude Fable 5 at 12; 3. GPT-5.6 Sol at 10.90.
Kimi K3 is the cheapest scored model on this arena agent elo leaderboard at $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output ($18.00 blended). Claude Opus 5 still leads Arena Agent Elo at 12.20.
Not automatically. Claude Opus 5 leads Arena Agent Elo, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Arena Agent Elo against input/output price, context window, and related evals.
Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 20, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.
Arena Agent Elo — blind pairwise preference rating from Arena.ai agent battles. This page ranks models that have published a Arena Agent Elo score, with live API token prices on the same row.
This page is the Arena Agent Elo leaderboard. Models are sorted by Arena Agent Elo, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.
Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published Arena Agent Elo score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.