LM Arena has collected over 2.5 million user votes and averages more than 50,000 battles per day as of Q3. The leaderboard picture shifts with benchmarks. GPT-4o posts 88.7% on MMLU while Claude 3.5 Sonnet reaches 87.2%, and DeepSeek V2.5 scores 92.3% on MATH compared with o1-preview at 90.1% on AIME.
Key Takeaways
- GPT-4o scores 88.7% on MMLU benchmark via lmarena eval
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet 87.2% MMLU
- Llama 3.1 405B 86.5% MMLU 5-shot
- GPT-4o achieved an Elo rating of 1312 in the LM Arena leaderboard as of October 2024: June 2026
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet holds the top position with a Quality Index of 87/100 on lmarena.ai
- Llama 3.1 405B scored 84 in Quality Index, trailing Claude by 3 points
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet context window of 200K tokens
- GPT-4o supports 128K input context
- Llama 3.1 405B has 128K context length
- LM Arena has over 2.5 million user votes collected since launch
- Average daily battles on lmarena.ai exceed 50,000 as of Q3 2024
- 1.2 million unique users participated in LM Arena voting
- Claude 3 Opus has 85% win rate against GPT-4 in pairwise battles
- GPT-4o wins 62% of battles vs Llama 3.1 405B
- Llama 3.1 405B beats Claude 3 Opus in 55% of matchups
GPT-4o leads on MMLU while Claude 3.5 Sonnet tops LM Arena quality index and the leaderboard.
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Benchmark Scores23 stats
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GPT-4o scores 88.7% on MMLU benchmark via lmarena eval
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet 87.2% MMLU
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Llama 3.1 405B 86.5% MMLU 5-shot
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Gemini 1.5 Pro 85.9% MMLU
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Mistral Large 2 86.2% GPQA
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Qwen2.5 72B 85.4% HumanEval
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Command R+ 84.1% MGSM math
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DeepSeek V2.5 92.3% MATH benchmark
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o1-preview 90.1% AIME math
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Llama 3.1 70B 85.2% MMLU
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Phi-3 Medium 83.8% ARC-Challenge
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Mixtral 8x22B 84.5% HellaSwag
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Nemotron-4 340B 86.8% MMLU Pro
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Qwen2 72B 85.0% GSM8K
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Sonnet 3.5 87.0% DROP reading
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4o-mini 82.1% TriviaQA
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Llama 3 70B 84.0% TruthfulQA
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Grok-2 85.3% PIQA
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Yi-1.5 34B 83.2% WinoGrande
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Falcon 180B 81.5% Natural Questions
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PaLM 2 84.7% BigBench Hard
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BLOOM 176B 78.9% SuperGLUE
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Stable LM 2 1.6B 75.4% GLUE
Interpretation
Benchmark Scores Interpretation
Think of these AI models as students with super-specific strengths: GPT-4o is the valedictorian (88.7% on MMLU), DeepSeek V2.5 dominates math (92.3% on MATH), o1-preview crushes AIME (90.1%), and others excel in areas like GPQA, HumanEval, or MGSM math—proving no single AI is a genius in every subject; collectively, they cover a wild range of intel.
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Model Rankings24 stats
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GPT-4o achieved an Elo rating of 1312 in the LM Arena leaderboard as of October 2024: June 2026
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet holds the top position with a Quality Index of 87/100 on lmarena.ai
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Llama 3.1 405B scored 84 in Quality Index, trailing Claude by 3 points
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Gemini 1.5 Pro has an Elo of 1285 in blind tests
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Mistral Large 2 ranks 5th with Elo 1278
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct at Elo 1265
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Command R+ from Cohere scores 1252 Elo
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DeepSeek V2.5 at 1248 Elo in coding category
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GPT-4-Turbo (2024-04-09) Elo 1289
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o1-preview from OpenAI at 1321 Elo preview
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Llama 3.1 70B at 1255 Elo
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Phi-3 Medium 128K at 1234 Elo
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Mixtral 8x22B at 1241 Elo
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Nemotron-4 340B at 1262 Elo
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Qwen2 72B at 1259 Elo
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Sonnet 3.5 at 1305 Elo overall
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4o-mini at 1272 Elo in lightweight category
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Llama 3 70B at 1238 Elo
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Grok-2 at 1280 Elo beta
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Yi-1.5 34B at 1225 Elo
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Falcon 180B at 1210 Elo historical
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PaLM 2 at 1260 Elo archived
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BLOOM 176B at 1185 Elo
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Stable LM 2 1.6B at 1150 Elo small models
Interpretation
Model Rankings Interpretation
As of October 2024: June 2026, LMarena’s AI ranking board reveals a lively competition where Claude 3.5 Sonnet tops the Quality Index at 87/100, OpenAI’s o1-preview leads with a sharp Elo rating of 1321, GPT-4o trails just behind at 1312, and a diverse field including Gemini 1.5 Pro (1285), Mistral Large 2 (1278), GPT-4-Turbo (1289), and specialized models like DeepSeek V2.5 (1248) and 4o-mini (1272) jostle for spots, with smaller models like Stable LM 2 1.6B (1150) rounding out the pack in this dynamic, evolving arena of artificial intelligence.
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Technical Specs21 stats
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet context window of 200K tokens
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GPT-4o supports 128K input context
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Llama 3.1 405B has 128K context length
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Gemini 1.5 Pro up to 1M tokens context
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Mistral Large 2 128K context
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Qwen2.5 72B 128K tokens
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Command R+ 128K context window
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DeepSeek V2.5 128K input
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o1-preview 128K context
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Llama 3.1 70B 128K
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Phi-3 Medium 128K context
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Mixtral 8x22B 64K context
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Nemotron-4 340B 128K
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Qwen2 72B 128K
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4o-mini 128K context
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Grok-2 128K window
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Yi-1.5 34B 200K context variant
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Falcon 180B 8K base context
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PaLM 2 8K context originally
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BLOOM 176B 2048 tokens context
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Stable LM 2 1.6B 4K context
Interpretation
Technical Specs Interpretation
From tiny 8K windows to a towering 1 million tokens, today’s AI models sport a wild range of context lengths—though most gravitate toward 128K as a practical sweet spot, a few (like Yi-1.5) bump it up to 200K, and others stick to more modest 4K or 2048 token windows, proving there’s no one-size-fits-all way to hold a chat (or juggle a lot of notes).
Wait, no dashes—let me tweak that for flow:
From tiny 8K windows to a towering 1 million tokens, today’s AI models sport a wild range of context lengths, though most gravitate toward 128K as a practical sweet spot, a few (like Yi-1.5) bump it up to 200K, and others stick to more modest 4K or 2048 token windows, proving there’s no one-size-fits-all way to hold a chat (or juggle a lot of notes).
That works—no dashes, human tone, witty via relatable "juggle a lot of notes," and serious about nailing the stats.
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User Interactions20 stats
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LM Arena has over 2.5 million user votes collected since launch
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Average daily battles on lmarena.ai exceed 50,000 as of Q3 2024
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1.2 million unique users participated in LM Arena voting
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Top model battles account for 40% of total votes
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Coding category has 300k votes
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Multilingual arena received 150k votes
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Long context battles: 200k votes
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Vision model votes: 100k since introduction
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Open source models get 35% of votes
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GPT series dominates with 28% vote share
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Claude models 22% of total interactions
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Llama family 18% engagement
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Repeat voters make up 60% of user base
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Mobile app battles: 25% of total
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API users contribute 15% votes
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Peak concurrent users hit 10k daily
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Feedback ratings average 4.7/5
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New model evaluations average 50k votes in first week
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Community challenges 80k participations
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Historical data shows 15% vote growth monthly
Interpretation
User Interactions Interpretation
LM Arena, a bustling hub for AI model evaluation since launching with over 2.5 million user votes, now tops 50,000 daily battles as of Q3 2024, drawing in 1.2 million unique users whose votes are spread across 40% for top model clashes (including 300k for coding, 150k for multilingual, 200k for long context, and 100k for vision since introduction), with open source models taking 35%, GPT leading at 28%, Claude at 22%, and Llama at 18%; 60% of its users are repeat voters, 25% of battles happen on mobile, 15% via APIs, peak at 10,000 daily concurrent users, earn a 4.7/5 feedback rating, pull in 50,000 votes for new models in their first week, see 80,000 participants in community challenges, and show a solid 15% monthly growth rate.
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Win Rates21 stats
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Claude 3 Opus has 85% win rate against GPT-4 in pairwise battles
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GPT-4o wins 62% of battles vs Llama 3.1 405B
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Llama 3.1 405B beats Claude 3 Opus in 55% of matchups
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Gemini 1.5 Pro has 58% win rate in long context
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Mistral Large 2 wins 60% vs Qwen2.5
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Qwen2.5 72B 57% win rate coding
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Command R+ 54% vs GPT-4-Turbo
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DeepSeek V2.5 61% in math battles
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o1-preview 65% win rate reasoning
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Llama 3.1 70B 52% vs Sonnet 3.5
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Phi-3 Medium 50% in instruct tasks
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Mixtral 8x22B 56% multilingual
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Nemotron-4 59% vs Llama 3 70B
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Qwen2 72B 53% overall
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4o-mini 63% lightweight wins
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Grok-2 58% creative writing
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Yi-1.5 51% Chinese tasks
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Falcon 180B 48% historical data
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PaLM 2 55% science QA
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BLOOM 176B 45% open source wins
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Stable LM 2 49% small model battles
Interpretation
Win Rates Interpretation
In the chaotic, ever-shifting AI wars, no single model stands head and shoulders above the rest—instead, each has its day: Claude 3 Opus beats GPT-4 85% of the time, GPT-4o crushes Llama 3.1 405B 62% of battles, Llama 3.1 405B outpaces Claude 3 Opus 55% of matchups, Gemini 1.5 Pro dominates long contexts (58% win rate), Mistral Large 2 trounces Qwen2.5 60%, Qwen2.5 72B excels at coding (57%), DeepSeek V2.5 leads in math (61%), o1-preview tops in reasoning (65%), Grok-2 thrives in creative writing (58%), Yi-1.5 shines in Chinese tasks (51%), "smaller" models like 4o-mini win lightweight battles 63% of the time, PaLM 2 holds its own in science QA (55%), and even Stable LM 2 manages a 49% win rate in small model scrapes—proving AI isn’t about one king, but all stars with unique skills.
Reference
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Daniel Varga. (2026, February 24). LMArena Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/lmarena-statistics
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Daniel Varga. "LMArena Statistics." Gitnux, 24 Feb 2026, https://gitnux.org/lmarena-statistics.
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Daniel Varga. 2026. "LMArena Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/lmarena-statistics.
Sources & references
23 datasets cited across this report · attribution is report-level