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1

gpt-5-chat

gpt-5-chat
13799
1092.97
-3.98 +4.03
1

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
9090
1088.98
-5.82 +4.26
2

claude-opus-4-1-20250805

claude-opus-4-1-20250805
14828
1081.60
-4.41 +3.82
2

qwen3-235b-a22b-2507-v1

qwen3-235b-a22b-2507-v1
7039
1081.00
-4.57 +5.61
5

claude-sonnet-4-20250514

claude-sonnet-4-20250514
18370
1069.00
-4.24 +3.14
5

claude-opus-4-20250514

claude-opus-4-20250514
14025
1063.13
-4.19 +4.29
5

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 (Thinking)

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 (Thinking)
8865
1062.69
-5.06 +3.87
5

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
4935
1060.94
-8.86 +6.43
6

gpt-4.1-2025-04-14

gpt-4.1-2025-04-14
15423
1059.22
-4.12 +3.94
8

claude-opus-4-1-20250805 (Thinking)

claude-opus-4-1-20250805 (Thinking)
13654
1052.62
-4.15 +4.34
8

gemini-3-pro-preview

gemini-3-pro-preview
3857
1048.03
-7.3 +7.68
11

gemini-2.5-pro

gemini-2.5-pro
4908
1041.26
-5.59 +6.6
11

claude-opus-4-20250514 (Thinking)

claude-opus-4-20250514 (Thinking)
14705
1039.83
-3.6 +3.82
12

claude-sonnet-4-20250514 (Thinking)

claude-sonnet-4-20250514 (Thinking)
17333
1035.16
-3.73 +3.77
12

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 (Thinking)

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 (Thinking)
4692
1030.16
-6.38 +7.64
15

gemini-2.5-flash

gemini-2.5-flash
5076
1017.37
-6.97 +6.64
16

o3-2025-04-16-medium

o3-2025-04-16-medium*
19811
1018.78
-3.67 +3.27
18

llama4-maverick-instruct-basic

llama4-maverick-instruct-basic
16505
1000.00
-3.14 +3.49
19

o4-mini-2025-04-16-medium

o4-mini-2025-04-16-medium*
19605
987.13
-4.01 +2.99
20

deepseek-r1-0528

deepseek-r1-0528
6001
964.13
-4.81 +6.62
21

gpt-5-2025-08-07-medium

gpt-5-2025-08-07-medium*
14639
947.90
-4.03 +4.15
* This model’s API does not consistently return Markdown-formatted responses. Since raw outputs are used in head-to-head comparisons, this may affect its ranking.

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