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Long context · Oct 14, 2026
Who is SOTA in Long context?
Gemini 4 Argon & Claude Opus 5.5

Usable long context, not a needle-in-a-haystack demo. Fiction.liveBench at 120k tokens plus longer-query preference. As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon & Claude Opus 5.5 share Long context. Gemini 4 Argon is tied for SOTA in Long context with Claude Opus 5.5, within the…

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1GGemini 4 Argon
Google DeepMind		Co-SOTAmediumGemini 4 Argon is tied for SOTA in Long context with Claude Opus 5.5, within the margin of error, since 2026-10-02.
2AClaude Opus 5.5
Anthropic		Co-SOTAmediumClaude Opus 5.5 is tied for SOTA in Long context with Gemini 4 Argon, within the margin of error, since 2026-10-02.
3AClaude Opus 4.6
Anthropic		Near-SOTAmediumClose in Long context: rank #3, 22.2 percentile points behind the leader.
4AClaude Fable 5
Anthropic		Was SOTAmediumWas SOTA in Long context from 2026-09-11 to 2026-10-02. Currently ranked #4.
5AClaude Opus 4.7
Anthropic		Was SOTAmediumWas SOTA in Long context from 2026-09-11 to 2026-10-02. Currently ranked #5.
6GGemini 3.8 Flash
Google DeepMind		Was SOTAmediumWas SOTA in Long context from 2026-09-11 to 2026-10-02. Currently ranked #6.
7AClaude Fable 5.1
Anthropic		Was SOTAmediumWas SOTA in Long context from 2026-09-11 to 2026-10-02. Currently ranked #7.
8AClaude Opus 5
Anthropic		Was SOTAmediumWas SOTA in Long context from 2026-08-11 to 2026-08-19. Currently ranked #8.
9KKimi K3
Moonshot AI		Was SOTAmediumWas SOTA in Long context from 2026-07-27 to 2026-08-11. Currently ranked #9.
10AClaude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic		Not SOTA · #10mediumRanked #10 in Long context.
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