Who ranks #1 on the Arena Code Elo leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic ranks #1 on Arena Code Elo at 1711.88. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 is #1 for Arena Code Elo at 1711.88. Ranked by the Arena Code Elo score 84 models in this index have a published Arena Code Elo score. Arena Code Elo leaderboard with live API prices. Arena Code Elo — blind pairwise preference rating from Arena.ai coding battles.
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic is #1 for Arena Code Elo at 1711.88. Ranked by the Arena Code Elo score This board also tracks Arena Code Elo. Next on the same board: Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max. This arena code elo leaderboard ranks models by Arena Code 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 Code Elo | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5 | 1711.88 | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 2 | Kimi K3 | 1681.75 | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| 3 | Qwen3.8 Max | 1667 | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| 4 | Grok 4.6 | 1631 | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| 5 | Claude Fable 5 | 1627 | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| 6 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 1620.27 | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| 7 | GLM-5.2 | 1593.25 | $1.40 | $4.40 |
| 8 | Gemini 3.7 Flash | 1587 | $0.75 | $3.75 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic ranks #1 on Arena Code Elo at 1711.88. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
The current Arena Code Elo ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Claude Opus 5 at 1711.88; 2. Kimi K3 at 1681.75; 3. Qwen3.8 Max at 1667.
MiMo-V2-Flash is the cheapest scored model on this arena code elo leaderboard at $0.10/M input and $0.30/M output ($0.40 blended). Claude Opus 5 still leads Arena Code Elo at 1711.88.
Not automatically. Claude Opus 5 leads Arena Code Elo, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Arena Code 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 Code Elo — blind pairwise preference rating from Arena.ai coding battles. This page ranks models that have published a Arena Code Elo score, with live API token prices on the same row.
This page is the Arena Code Elo leaderboard. Models are sorted by Arena Code 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 Code Elo score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.