Best model for images and documents

Understanding what is in a picture, a chart or a scanned page.

Right now

Claude Fable 5 from Anthropic currently ranks first for reading screenshots, charts, scans, ahead of Claude Opus 5 High from Anthropic. The ranking comes from LMArena and was last published 2026-08-27.

Leader
Claude Fable 5
Made by
Anthropic
Score
1329
Source
LMArena

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

Rank# Model Made by Arena score Votes
1 Claude Fable 5 Anthropic 1,329 10,002
2 Claude Opus 5 High Anthropic 1,322 8,271
3 Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic 1,317 21,457
4 Claude Opus 4.7 High Anthropic 1,316 21,137
5 Claude Opus 4.6 High Anthropic 1,315 20,883
6 Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba 1,313 7,244
7 Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic 1,311 25,210
8 Gemini 3.5 Flash High Google 1,311 8,259
9 Muse Spark Meta 1,306 5,585
10 Gemini 3.5 Flash Medium Google 1,306 8,261
11 Gemini 3 Pro Google 1,304 13,019
12 muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh) Meta 1,304 1,844
13 Gemini 3.6 Flash High Google 1,302 3,816
14 GPT 5.4 High OpenAI 1,298 23,263
15 Glm 5.3 Flash Open Zai 1,296 1,389
16 GPT 5.5 OpenAI 1,296 21,389
17 Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google 1,295 39,412
18 GPT 5.5 High OpenAI 1,294 20,121
19 Claude Opus 4.8 High Anthropic 1,294 13,521
20 GPT 5.4 OpenAI 1,293 21,245
21 Muse Spark 1.1 Meta 1,293 6,769
22 Grok 4.5 xAI 1,291 6,401
23 Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic 1,289 13,980
24 Gemini 3 Flash Google 1,285 36,747
25 Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic 1,282 25,610

Published by LMArena on 2026-08-27 · copied here 2026-09-02 · no adjustment applied

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