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VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is GPT-4O state of the art?
It used to be.Was SOTA in General LLM.

As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-4O from OpenAI. Was SOTA in General LLM. Was SOTA in General LLM from 2024-08-28 to 2024-09-27.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: medium
General LLMWas SOTAWAS_SOTA · 777dReasoningNot SOTA · #11#11 · 0dMathNot SOTA · #44#44 · 0dScienceNot SOTA · #156#156 · 0dCodingNot SOTA · #10#10 · 0dLong contextNot SOTA · #8#8 · 0dVisionNot SOTA · #80#80 · 0dFactualityNot SOTA · #64#64 · 0dAbstraction (ARC)Not SOTA · #106#106 · 0d
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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Was SOTA in General LLM from 2024-08-28 to 2024-09-27.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts)
gpt-4o-2024-05-13
1252.770712056125 1248.0–1258.62025-02-06INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
Humanity's Last Exam
gpt-4o-2024-11-20
0.027200000000000002 0.0–0.02024-11-20INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
GPQA Diamond
gpt-4o-2024-11-20
0.4788510101010101 0.4–0.52024-11-20INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding)
gpt-4o-2024-05-13
1264.88391825144 1259.7–1269.12025-02-17INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query)
gpt-4o-2024-05-13
1269.7241194910782 1261.9–1277.22025-01-22INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Vision (style-controlled)
gpt-4o-2024-05-13
1161.6367889438143 1152.9–1170.42026-10-09INDEP.snap_44d0155ee751
SimpleQA Verified
gpt-4o-2024-08-06
0.26 0.2–0.32024-08-06INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
ARC-AGI
gpt-4o-2024-11-20
0.0452024-11-20INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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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
Honest about the gaps

Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMWas SOTAWas SOTA in General LLM from 2024-08-28 to 2024-09-27.
ReasoningNot SOTA · #11Last listed at #11 in Reasoning on 2025-02-06.
MathNot SOTA · #44Ranked #44 in Math.
ScienceNot SOTA · #156Last listed at #156 in Science on 2024-11-20. That board does not award a crown.
CodingNot SOTA · #10Last listed at #10 in Coding on 2025-02-17.
Long contextNot SOTA · #8Last listed at #8 in Long context on 2025-01-22.
VisionNot SOTA · #80Ranked #80 in Vision.
FactualityNot SOTA · #64Last listed at #64 in Factuality on 2024-08-06.