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People's votes on coding questions

People compared two anonymous answers to their coding questions and picked the better one.

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How to read it

A rating from thousands of head-to-head votes. Higher means people preferred its answers more often. The thin line is the likely range.

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1 task on this site.

How the models did

Rating from blind votes · Higher is better

Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 are neck and neck at the top, followed by Gemini 3.8 Flash and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.

Claude Opus 5.5 · Anthropic1st

Claude Fable 5.1 · Anthropic2nd

Gemini 3.8 Flash · Google DeepMind3rd

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · DeepSeek4th

Kimi K3 · Moonshot AI5th

GPT-5.6 Sol · OpenAI6th

Gemini 3.6 Flash · Google DeepMind7th

GPT-6 Astra · OpenAI8th

Claude Sonnet 5 · Anthropic9th

Gemini 3.1 Pro · Google DeepMind10th

DeepSeek V4 Pro · DeepSeek11th

GPT-5.6 Luna · OpenAI12th

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Google DeepMind13th

Claude Haiku 4.5 · Anthropic14th

GPT-6 Luna · OpenAINot tested yet

GPT-6 Sol · OpenAINot tested yet

Source: LMArena · votes as of 25 Sept 2026

Where we use it

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