AI Model Quality Leaderboard

AI model quality — what’s actually the smartest

Community rankings from LMArena, where millions of blind head-to-head votes decide which models are genuinely best — paired with price, so you can see what’s smart and affordable. Updated daily.

The leaderboard

Top models by Arena score (Elo) — higher means it wins more blind head-to-head match-ups.

Smart vs cheap

Every priced model plotted by quality (Arena score) against blended price per million tokens. Up-and-left is the sweet spot: high quality, low cost.

Best value

Most quality per dollar.

    Best in each arena

    The #1 model for different jobs.

    Data: LMArena, re-visualised by AIToolsForHumans. Arena scores come from millions of anonymous head-to-head human preference votes (style-controlled); blended price weights input and output 3:1. Rankings reflect human preference, which is one measure of quality among several. Last updated .