Live ranking

The best AI model

Our aggregated ranking of frontier AI models, refreshed every couple of hours. Scored across the benchmarks that matter — Arena Elo, GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Terminal-Bench and the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Current #1

Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1

Anthropic

Top 10

  1. Elo 1642
  2. Elo 1635
  3. Elo 1629
  4. Elo 1623
  5. Elo 1617
  6. Elo 1613
  7. Elo 1608
  8. Elo 1601
  9. Elo 1597
  10. Elo 1592

Frequently asked

What is the best AI model in 2026?
The current state-of-the-art AI model on our aggregated leaderboard is shown at the top of this page. Rankings are pulled live from OpenRouter and scored across LMArena, Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, GPQA, SWE-bench and more.
Best AI model vs best LLM — is there a difference?
In practice, no — 'AI model' as searched almost always means large language model. If you need multimodal (image, audio, video generation), check the modality column on each model page.