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# Claude Opus 4.6 tops the Text Arena at 1,503, and the top 15 models span 46 points
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/text-arena-leaderboard/
- Published: 2026-10-19T15:55:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:52.000Z
- Description: Two versions of Claude Opus 4.6 share the top of the Text Arena at 1,503, three points ahead of gemini-3.1-pro-preview. The 15th model, gpt-5.1-high, scored 1,457.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Benchmarks, Large Language Models, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-benchmarks

1,503

Text Arena rating of claude-opus-4-6 in early 2026, tied at the top with its thinking variant; gemini-3.1-pro-preview 1,500

claude-opus-4-61,503

claude-opus-4-6-thinking1,503

gemini-3.1-pro-preview1,500

## What the chart shows

The Arena ranks models by users’ blind votes between two answers to the same prompt. In early 2026 claude-opus-4-6 and claude-opus-4-6-thinking tied at the top of the text leaderboard with 1,503, followed by gemini-3.1-pro-preview (1,500) and grok-4.20-beta1 (1,495).

The top 15 span 46 points, from 1,503 down to gpt-5.1-high’s 1,457\. The ratings’ 95% confidence intervals range from ±4 to ±10 points and overlap for many neighbouring models, so small differences in rank are not meaningful.

## Key numbers

| Measure                                       | Value |
| --------------------------------------------- | ----- |
| claude-opus-4-6 (95% CI 1,496–1,510)          | 1,503 |
| claude-opus-4-6-thinking (95% CI 1,495–1,511) | 1,503 |
| gemini-3.1-pro-preview                        | 1,500 |
| grok-4.20-beta1                               | 1,495 |
| gpt-5.1-high (15th)                           | 1,457 |

## How to read it

- Ratings from the Arena text leaderboard (arena.ai) in early 2026; top 15 models only.
- Ratings reflect user preference, which can favour longer or better-styled answers over correct ones.
- The report gives the leader’s rating as about 1,510; the data shows 1,503 for both Claude Opus 4.6 entries, which we use.
- Elo-like ratings have no true zero, so the chart shows dots on an axis starting at 1,440: compare the differences between models.

**Source:** [Arena](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#arena), 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 2.2.2: *Text Arena: Elo rating*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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