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General LLM · Oct 13, 2026
Who is SOTA in General LLM?
Gemini 2.5 Pro

Best publicly available general-purpose language model, judged from independent preference and contamination-resistant composite evidence. As of Oct 13, 2026, Gemini 2.5 Pro holds General LLM. Gemini 2.5 Pro is SOTA in General LLM since 2026-01-27. No eligible model is credibly ahead on the…

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#ModelStateConfidenceWhy
1GGemini 2.5 Pro Exp 03.25
Google DeepMind
Near-SOTAmediumClose in General LLM: rank #1, 0.0 percentile points behind the leader.
1GGemini 4 Argon
Google DeepMind
Not SOTA · #1mediumRanked #1 in General LLM.
1GGemini 2.5 Pro
Google DeepMind
SOTAhighGemini 2.5 Pro is SOTA in General LLM since 2026-01-27. No eligible model is credibly ahead on the weighted primary evidence.
3AClaude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Near-SOTAmediumClose in General LLM: rank #3, 5.9 percentile points behind the leader.
4AClaude Opus 5.5
Anthropic
Not SOTA · #4mediumRanked #4 in General LLM.
5OO3 Mini
OpenAI
Not SOTA · #5mediumRanked #5 in General LLM.
6OO1
OpenAI
Not SOTA · #6mediumRanked #6 in General LLM.
7AClaude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
Not SOTA · #7mediumRanked #7 in General LLM.
8QQwq 32B
Alibaba / Qwen
Not SOTA · #8mediumRanked #8 in General LLM.
9DSDeepSeek R1
DeepSeek
Not SOTA · #9mediumRanked #9 in General LLM.
10AClaude Fable 5
Anthropic
Not SOTA · #10mediumRanked #10 in General LLM.
11OGPT-4.5 Preview
OpenAI
Not SOTA · #11mediumRanked #11 in General LLM.
12GGemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Exp 01.21
Google DeepMind
Not SOTA · #12mediumRanked #12 in General LLM.
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