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Claude Opus 5 Max from Anthropic currently ranks first for general questions, writing, reasoning, ahead of Claude Opus 5 High from Anthropic. The ranking comes from LMArena and was last published 2026-09-01.

Leader
Claude Opus 5 Max
Made by
Anthropic
Score
1505
Source
LMArena

Full ranking Human head-to-head preference votes, Bradley-Terry rating.

Rank# Model Made by Arena score Votes
1 Claude Opus 5 Max Anthropic 1,505 16,839
2 Claude Opus 5 High Anthropic 1,504 34,617
3 Claude Opus 4.6 High Anthropic 1,503 72,110
4 Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic 1,498 76,032
5 Claude Fable 5 Anthropic 1,494 26,977
6 Gemini 3.7 Flash High Google 1,491 5,685
7 Claude Opus 4.7 High Anthropic 1,490 60,123
8 muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh) Meta 1,488 3,244
9 Gemini 3.5 Flash High Google 1,484 33,874
10 Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic 1,483 61,256
11 Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google 1,480 102,763
12 Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba 1,480 13,136
13 Gemini 3 Pro Google 1,480 40,675
14 Muse Spark 1.1 Meta 1,479 23,768
15 Gemini 3.6 Flash High Google 1,476 22,009
16 Kimi K3 Max Open Moonshot AI 1,476 17,895
17 Gemini 3.5 Flash Medium Google 1,476 32,274
18 Glm 5.3 Max Open Zai 1,474 7,401
19 Qwen3.7 Max Preview Alibaba 1,474 3,710
20 Muse Spark Meta 1,474 13,571
21 GPT 5.5 High OpenAI 1,472 63,265
22 Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba 1,471 21,487
23 Glm 5.3 Flash Open Zai 1,471 4,399
24 GPT 5.4 High OpenAI 1,470 60,657
25 Ernie 5.1 Baidu 1,468 37,137

Published by LMArena on 2026-09-01 · copied here 2026-09-02 · no adjustment applied

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