Coding Q&A race
Answering programming questions and writing code in chat, judged by blind votes on coding prompts.
- Leader
- Gemini 4 Argon
- Margin
- 2 Elo
- 0.1% ahead
- Weeks at #1
- 4
- in a row
- Changes
- 3
- in 2026
Warming up the track…
Score history
Top 6 today over the leader's frontier · click to jump to a week
Reigns at #1
Longest: Opus 4.6, 33 weeks (from Feb 2026).
Sibling races
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Why this race matters
Most day-to-day coding help happens in chat: explaining errors, writing functions, reviewing snippets.
How it is scored
LMArena Text leaderboard, Coding category: ratings from blind pairwise votes on prompts LMArena classifies as coding.
Data provenance
Blind pairwise votes, reported as Bradley-Terry ratings on an Elo scale. Data: lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset, CC BY 4.0.
LMArena Text · Coding · LMArena
Weekly history from the source's published leaderboards.
69 tracked models with a result (411 entries on the source board) · newest data October 15, 2026.