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1

gpt-5-chat

gpt-5-chat
13690
1092.23
-4.99 +4.1
1

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
8882
1087.66
-4.78 +6.46
1

qwen3-235b-a22b-2507-v1

qwen3-235b-a22b-2507-v1
6578
1081.14
-5.18 +6.93
2

claude-opus-4-1-20250805

claude-opus-4-1-20250805
14807
1081.42
-4 +3.47
5

claude-sonnet-4-20250514

claude-sonnet-4-20250514
18082
1067.98
-3.73 +3.73
5

claude-opus-4-20250514

claude-opus-4-20250514
14004
1062.40
-4.76 +3.4
5

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

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 (Thinking)
8612
1060.82
-4.27 +4.76
5

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
4899
1059.92
-6.08 +7.17
6

gpt-4.1-2025-04-14

gpt-4.1-2025-04-14
15411
1058.32
-3.77 +4.08
7

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

claude-opus-4-1-20250805 (Thinking)
13637
1052.08
-5 +4.69
10

gemini-3-pro-preview

gemini-3-pro-preview
3602
1046.24
-6.43 +5.7
10

gemini-2.5-pro

gemini-2.5-pro
4465
1043.79
-6.97 +7.92
11

claude-opus-4-20250514 (Thinking)

claude-opus-4-20250514 (Thinking)
14646
1039.16
-4.24 +3.46
12

claude-sonnet-4-20250514 (Thinking)

claude-sonnet-4-20250514 (Thinking)
17250
1034.69
-4.01 +3.68
12

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

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 (Thinking)
4650
1030.14
-7.24 +7.28
15

gemini-2.5-flash

gemini-2.5-flash
4539
1017.09
-7.73 +6.5
16

o3-2025-04-16-medium

o3-2025-04-16-medium*
19495
1018.28
-3.73 +3.82
18

llama4-maverick-instruct-basic

llama4-maverick-instruct-basic
16487
1000.00
-5.84 +4.15
19

o4-mini-2025-04-16-medium

o4-mini-2025-04-16-medium*
19285
986.45
-2.99 +3.73
20

deepseek-r1-0528

deepseek-r1-0528
5783
965.95
-6.15 +6.95
21

gpt-5-2025-08-07-medium

gpt-5-2025-08-07-medium*
14340
947.38
-4.71 +4.99
* 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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