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Head-to-Head Leaderboard

A persistent cross-model leaderboard ranking AI models by Elo and win rate across every head-to-head matchup, with separate ladders for text, image, and video.

Text models

Rank	Model	Elo	Win rate	Matches
1	grok-4.3	1706	96%	23
2	Kimi-K2.7-Code	1570	81%	8
3	Meta: Muse Spark 1.1	1558	90%	5
4	Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash	1532	100%	2
5	grok-4.6	1531	100%	2
6	DeepSeek-V3.2	1528	100%	2
7	gpt-oss-120b	1528	63%	8
8	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	1524	75%	4
9	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash	1517	100%	1
10	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6	1516	100%	1
11	DeepSeek-R1	1516	100%	1
12	nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b	1516	100%	1
13	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro	1516	100%	1
14	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro	1516	100%	1
15	MoonshotAI: Kimi K3	1516	100%	1
16	diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it	1516	100%	1
17	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna	1516	75%	2
18	DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731	1516	75%	2
19	OpenRouter: Fusion	1515	100%	1
20	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol	1515	100%	1
21	Kimi K3	1515	100%	1
22	OpenAI: GPT-5 Pro	1515	100%	1
23	SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6	1515	100%	1
24	Mistral-Large-3	1515	100%	1
25	Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1	1515	67%	3
26	Sakana: Fugu Ultra	1514	100%	1
27	Cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026	1510	63%	4
28	Kimi-K3	1501	50%	1
29	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash	1501	50%	2
30	Anthropic: Claude Fable 5	1500	50%	1
31	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813	1500	50%	1
32	Kimi-K2.6	1493	33%	3
33	mistral-small-2503	1492	0%	1
34	mistral-medium-2505	1492	0%	1
35	gpt-5.4	1492	25%	2
36	Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct	1492	0%	1
37	Kimi K3	1490	38%	4
38	DeepSeek-V4-Flash	1490	40%	5
39	DeepSeek-V4-Pro	1487	41%	11
40	Gemini 3.8 Flash	1485	25%	2
41	Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash	1485	0%	1
42	gemma-4-31b-it	1484	0%	1
43	OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Pro	1484	0%	1
44	Kimi K2.7 Code	1484	0%	1
45	xAI: Grok 4.5	1484	0%	1
46	Grok 4.20 0309 Non Reasoning	1484	0%	1
47	Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5	1483	0%	1
48	Sarvam M	1482	0%	1
49	mistral-medium-3-5	1479	0%	2
50	Codestral-2501	1478	25%	4
51	Ministral-3B	1476	0%	2
52	gpt-5.4-mini	1475	0%	2
53	cohere-command-a	1475	30%	5
54	Phi-4-multimodal-instruct	1475	0%	2
55	gpt-5.4-nano	1474	0%	2
56	Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8	1472	0%	2
57	Z.ai: GLM 5.3	1469	0%	2
58	gpt-oss-20b	1469	0%	2
59	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8	1468	25%	4
60	Phi-4-reasoning	1458	0%	3
61	Phi-4	1451	10%	5
62	Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct	1445	10%	5
63	Phi-4-mini-instruct	1444	0%	4
64	GLM 5.2	1442	10%	5

Image models

Rank	Model	Elo	Win rate	Matches
1	GPT Image 2 API	1587	100%	7
2	Fibo Bbq Preview	1575	100%	6
3	Luma Uni-1 Edit Max	1559	100%	5
4	Fibo	1558	92%	6
5	Imagineart 2.0 Preview	1553	92%	6
6	Rundiffusion Photo Flux	1544	100%	4
7	Ideogram V4.0 Text to Image	1542	90%	5
8	ImagineArt 1.5 Pro Preview	1540	83%	6
9	Fibo Lite	1534	75%	6
10	Qwen Image 3 Image Editing	1531	100%	2
11	Grok Imagine Image 2.0	1531	100%	2
12	Fibo Gen 1.5 Text to Image	1531	100%	2
13	Juggernaut Flux Lightning	1531	80%	5
14	Krea 2 Large	1528	88%	4
15	Reve 2.1	1523	100%	2
16	Nano Banana Lite Edit	1520	100%	2
17	FLUX 2	1518	100%	1
18	FLUX.1 Krea [dev]	1516	100%	1
19	V4.0q [instant]	1508	100%	1
20	Meta Muse Image Edit	1508	100%	1
21	Seedream 5.0 Pro Image Editing	1508	60%	5
22	Bitdance	1503	50%	2
23	Cosmos 3 Super	1502	67%	6
24	FLUX.1 Krea [dev] with LoRAs	1502	50%	1
25	Bria RMBG 2.0	1500	50%	1
26	Grok Imagine Image Quality	1487	0%	1
27	FLUX.1 [schnell]	1486	0%	1
28	Boogu Image	1486	25%	2
29	FLUX.1 Krea [dev]	1486	0%	1
30	Hidream I1 Dev	1486	0%	1
31	FLUX.1 Kontext [pro]	1486	0%	1
32	Ernie Image Lora	1485	0%	1
33	Bytedance Seedream V4.5 Edit	1485	0%	1
34	FLUX.1 [dev] with LoRAs	1485	0%	1
35	Glm Image	1485	0%	1
36	FLUX.2 [klein] 9B	1485	0%	1
37	Ernie Image Turbo	1485	0%	1
38	FLUX 2 Lora Gallery Realism	1485	0%	1
39	FLUX1.1 [pro]	1485	0%	1
40	CogView	1485	25%	2
41	FLUX.1 SRPO [dev]	1485	0%	1
42	FLUX.1 [dev] with Controlnets and Loras	1484	0%	1
43	Ernie Image Lora Turbo	1484	0%	1
44	FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Base LoRA	1484	0%	1
45	FLUX.1 SRPO [dev]	1484	0%	1
46	Juggernaut Flux Base LoRA	1477	50%	5
47	DeepSeek Janus-Pro	1473	0%	2
48	Bagel	1310	8%	24
49	AuraFlow	1284	10%	30

Video models

Rank	Model	Elo	Win rate	Matches
1	Happy Horse	1634	100%	11
2	Seedance 2 Image to Video	1587	90%	10
3	Happy Horse 1.1 Image to Video	1584	94%	8
4	Gemini Omni Flash	1574	100%	6
5	Luma Ray 3.2 Image to Video	1534	72%	9
6	Flux 3 Image To Video Draft	1531	100%	2
7	MiniMax H3 Reference to Video	1531	100%	2
8	Seedance 2.5 Reference to Video	1531	100%	2
9	Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 Image to Video	1531	100%	2
10	LTX 2.5 Image to Video Pro	1516	75%	2
11	Flux 3 Image to Video	1513	75%	2
12	Wan v2.6 Image to Video	1511	64%	7
13	Wan 3.0	1510	100%	1
14	Bytedance Seedance V1.5 Pro Image To Video	1510	50%	7
15	Marey Realism V1.5	1509	60%	10
16	LongCat Video Distilled	1504	50%	1
17	LTX 2.3 Video Fast	1504	50%	1
18	Kling Video v3 Image to Video [Pro]	1502	50%	1
19	Kling Video V3 Turbo Pro Image to Video	1501	50%	1
20	Krea Wan 14b- Text to Video	1500	50%	1
21	LTX 2.5 Image to Video Pro	1500	50%	2
22	Kandinsky5	1500	50%	1
23	Kling O3 Image to Video [Pro]	1500	50%	1
24	Kling Video	1500	50%	1
25	Bernini-R Reference Edit Video	1490	38%	13
26	LTX Video-0.9.7 13B Distilled	1489	0%	1
27	Kling Video v2.6 Image to Video	1489	0%	1
28	LTX Video (preview)	1488	0%	1
29	Kling 1.6	1487	0%	1
30	LTX Video-0.9.5	1487	0%	1
31	Heygen	1485	0%	1
32	Infinity Star	1485	0%	1
33	Kandinsky5	1485	0%	1
34	Kling 2.0 Master	1485	0%	1
35	LTX-2.3 22B Distilled	1485	0%	1
36	Veo 2 (Image to Video)	1484	0%	1
37	Heygen Video Agent	1484	0%	1
38	Heygen v5 Digital Twin	1484	0%	1
39	Cosmos Predict 2.5 2B	1484	0%	1
40	Kandinsky5 Pro	1484	0%	1
41	LTX-2.3 22B	1484	0%	1
42	CogVideoX-5B	1421	0%	6
43	AnimateDiff Turbo	1352	0%	13
44	AnimateDiff	1350	0%	13

Anim models

Rank	Model	Elo	Win rate	Matches
1	Kimi K3	1531	100%	2
2	mistral-medium-3-5	1516	100%	1
3	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8	1485	0%	1
4	Kimi-K2.7-Code	1484	0%	1
5	xAI: Grok 4.5	1484	0%	1

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