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AI rankings & benchmarks.

Different tests answer different questions.
Find the evaluations that help you understand what a model can do.

An editorial guide, not a combined ranking. Scores from different methods are not directly comparable.

11 sources to explore

Methods before conclusions
Independent evaluation platform

Artificial Analysis

A broad view of model capability, with the evaluation recipe made explicit.

  • Intelligence
  • Reasoning
  • Coding
  • Agents
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Editorial guide
Human preference leaderboard

Arena

What people prefer when two answers are put side by side.

  • Human preference
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Licensed excerpt
Technical benchmark suite

LiveBench

Release-based technical evaluation, with a newer long-horizon branch.

  • Intelligence
  • Reasoning
  • Coding
  • Agents
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Editorial guide
Professional-task evaluation platform

Vals AI

A view of AI performance grounded in particular kinds of professional work.

  • Reasoning
  • Coding
  • Agents
  • Professional tasks
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Editorial guide
Generalisation benchmark family

ARC Prize

Can a system work out a new rule, rather than recognise a familiar answer?

  • Intelligence
  • Reasoning
  • Agents
  • Multimodal
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Editorial guide
Terminal-agent benchmark

Terminal-Bench

Whether an agent can complete work through a real terminal environment.

  • Coding
  • Agents
  • Reliability
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Editorial guide
Software-engineering benchmark

SWE-bench Pro

Repository-level issues that require more than generating a short function.

  • Coding
  • Agents
  • Reliability
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Editorial guide
Conversational-agent benchmark

τ³-bench

Following policy, using tools and retrieving knowledge through a conversation.

  • Agents
  • Tool use
  • Reliability
  • Multimodal
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Editorial guide
Tool-use benchmark

Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard

Selecting tools and supplying the right arguments, across increasingly involved interactions.

  • Tool use
  • Agents
  • Reliability
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Editorial guide
Task-horizon research

METR

How difficult a task can an agent complete, expressed in human task time?

  • Agents
  • Coding
  • Reliability
Historical referenceEditorial guide
Evaluation platform and leaderboard family

OpenCompass

A broad evaluation ecosystem whose different leaderboards need their own context.

  • Intelligence
  • Reasoning
  • Coding
  • Multimodal
Reviewed 15 Oct 2026Editorial guide