Who ranks #1 on the Arena-Hard leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 235B A22B by Qwen ranks #1 on Arena-Hard at 95.6%. API pricing is $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 235B A22B is #1 for Arena-Hard at 95.6%. Ranked by the Arena-Hard score 20 models in this index have a published Arena-Hard score. Arena-Hard leaderboard: rank models by Arena-Hard next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 235B A22B by Qwen is #1 for Arena-Hard at 95.6%. Ranked by the Arena-Hard score This board also tracks Arena-Hard. Next on the same board: Qwen3 32B and Qwen3 30B A3B. This arena-hard leaderboard ranks models by Arena-Hard. 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-Hard | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen3 235B A22B | 95.6% | $0.10 | $0.10 |
| 2 | Qwen3 32B | 93.8% | $0.10 | $0.44 |
| 3 | Qwen3 30B A3B | 91% | $0.10 | $0.44 |
| 4 | Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct | 87.6% | $0.07 | $0.14 |
| 5 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | 81.2% | $0.35 | $0.40 |
| 6 | DeepSeek-V2.5 | 76.2% | $0.14 | $0.28 |
| 7 | Phi 4 | 75.4% | $0.07 | $0.14 |
| 8 | Ministral 8B Instruct | 70.9% | $0.10 | $0.10 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 235B A22B by Qwen ranks #1 on Arena-Hard at 95.6%. API pricing is $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output.
The current Arena-Hard ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Qwen3 235B A22B at 95.6%; 2. Qwen3 32B at 93.8%; 3. Qwen3 30B A3B at 91%.
Qwen3 235B A22B currently leads Arena-Hard and is also the cheapest scored model on this page, at $0.10/M input and $0.10/M output ($0.20 blended).
Not automatically. Qwen3 235B A22B leads Arena-Hard, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Arena-Hard 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-Hard is a public LLM eval (the Arena-Hard score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the Arena-Hard leaderboard. Models are sorted by Arena-Hard, 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-Hard score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.