# AI leaderboard changes July 2026

As of Jul 30, 2026, 19 confirmed crown changes are recorded for July 2026.

## Confirmed crown changes

- Jul 30, 2026. Factuality: Claude Opus 5 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 30, 2026. Coding › Web dev: Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 27, 2026. Reasoning: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Opus 5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 27, 2026. Long context: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Opus 5 and Kimi K3 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 27, 2026. General LLM: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 21, 2026. Long context: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.7 and Kimi K3 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 21, 2026. Factuality: Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 and Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 20, 2026. General LLM: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.6 and Muse Spark 1.1 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 20, 2026. Coding › Web dev: Kimi K3 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 20, 2026. Reasoning: Kimi K3 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 20, 2026. Long context: Kimi K3 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 20, 2026. General LLM: Kimi K3 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 20, 2026. Coding › Web dev: Kimi K3 takes the crown. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 16, 2026. Vision: Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 14, 2026. Reasoning: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.6 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 14, 2026. Factuality: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3 Pro and Muse Spark 1.1 are co-SOTA. First holder recorded for this category and slice.
- Jul 12, 2026. Long context: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Opus 4.7 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 12, 2026. Coding › Web dev: GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.
- Jul 8, 2026. Vision: GPT-5.5 and Claude Fable 5 are co-SOTA. Crown change confirmed by two consecutive snapshots or two independent primary sources.

## Top 3

- Claude Fable 5 at #1 in General LLM
- Claude Fable 5 at #1 in Reasoning
- Claude Fable 5 at #1 in Coding › Web dev
- Claude Fable 5 at #1 in Long context
- Claude Fable 5 at #1 in Vision
- Claude Fable 5 at #1 in Factuality
- Claude Opus 4.6 at #1 in General LLM
- Claude Opus 4.6 at #1 in Reasoning
- Claude Opus 4.6 at #1 in Long context
- Claude Opus 4.6 at #1 in Factuality
- Claude Opus 4.7 at #1 in Long context
- Claude Opus 5 at #1 in General LLM
- Claude Opus 5 at #1 in Reasoning
- Claude Opus 5 at #1 in Coding › Web dev
- Claude Opus 5 at #1 in Long context
- Claude Opus 5 at #1 in Factuality
- Gemini 3 Pro at #1 in Factuality
- GPT-5.4 at #1 in Factuality
- GPT-5.5 at #1 in Vision
- GPT-5.5 at #1 in Factuality
- GPT-5.6 Sol at #1 in Coding › Web dev
- GPT-5.6 Sol at #1 in Vision
- Kimi K3 at #1 in Coding › Web dev
- Kimi K3 at #1 in Long context
- Muse Spark 1.1 at #1 in General LLM
- Muse Spark 1.1 at #1 in Factuality

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