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VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is Claude Opus 4.6 state of the art?
Close.Near-SOTA in General LLM, rank #3.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 from Anthropic. Near-SOTA in General LLM, rank #3. Close in General LLM: rank #3, 22.2 percentile points behind the leader.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: medium
General LLMNear-SOTA#3 · 0dGeneral LLM · paretoNear-SOTA#3 · 0dReasoningNear-SOTA#3 · 0dReasoning · paretoNear-SOTA#3 · 0dMathNot SOTA · #10#10 · 0dMath · paretoNot SOTA · #10#10 · 0dScienceNot SOTA · #38#38 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #4#4 · 0dCoding › Web devWas SOTAWAS_SOTA · 176dLong contextNear-SOTA#3 · 0d
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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Close in General LLM: rank #3, 22.2 percentile points behind the leader.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall)
claude-opus-4-6-high · high
1504.355209789498 1501.0–1507.72026-10-08INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts)
claude-opus-4-6-high · high
1532.5660837117405 1528.4–1536.72026-10-08INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
Humanity's Last Exam
claude-opus-4-6_max · max
0.3444 0.3–0.42026-02-05INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
GPQA Diamond
claude-opus-4-6_32K
0.9053030303030303 0.9–0.92026-02-05INDEP.snap_e03cddec1fbb
LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding)
claude-opus-4-6-high · high
1549.6895555813016 1544.2–1555.22026-10-08INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query)
claude-opus-4-6-high · high
1523.5136156605704 1518.6–1528.42026-10-08INDEP.snap_9a4e972507c9
LMArena Vision (style-controlled)
claude-opus-4-6-high · high
1299.2321456198133 1292.8–1305.72026-10-09INDEP.snap_ae2e1c2545e6
LMArena Text factuality
claude-opus-4-6-high · high
1493.4799900641547 1490.8–1496.22026-10-08INDEP.snap_d6425b45ea80
Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

Full timeline →
General LLM
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-4O
O1 Preview
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4.5 Preview
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.4
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.5
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Muse Spark
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark 1.1
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Muse Spark 1.2
Gemini 4 Argon
Reasoning
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1 Mini
O1 Preview
O1 Preview
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1 Preview
O1
O1 Preview
DeepSeek R1
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
O3 Mini
DeepSeek R1
O1
DeepSeek R1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O1
DeepSeek R1
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
Claude Opus 4
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Muse Spark
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 5.5
Gemini 4 Argon
Coding › Web dev
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5
GLM 4.6
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
GLM 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5
GPT-5.6 Sol
Kimi K3
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Fable 5.1
GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra
Claude Opus 5.5
GPT-6 Astra
Claude Opus 5.5
Long context
O1
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
O1
O1 Preview
DeepSeek R1
Gemini 2.0 Flash 001
O1
DeepSeek R1
O1
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
GPT-4.5 Preview
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.5 Preview
DeepSeek V3 0324
GPT-4.1
GPT-4.5 Preview
O3
O3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
O3
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPT-4.5 Preview
Claude Sonnet 4.5
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 3 Pro
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GLM 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
GPT-5.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Kimi K3
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 5
Muse Spark 1.2
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Claude Opus 5.5
Gemini 4 Argon
Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMNear-SOTAClose in General LLM: rank #3, 22.2 percentile points behind the leader.
ReasoningNear-SOTAClose in Reasoning: rank #3, 22.2 percentile points behind the leader.
MathNot SOTA · #10Ranked #10 in Math.
ScienceNot SOTA · #38Last listed at #38 in Science on 2026-02-05. That board does not award a crown.
CodingNot SOTA · #4Ranked #4 in Coding.
Coding › Web devWas SOTAWas SOTA in Coding › Web dev from 2026-04-21 to 2026-05-19.
Long contextNear-SOTAClose in Long context: rank #3, 22.2 percentile points behind the leader.
VisionNot SOTA · #2Ranked #2 in Vision.