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| "schema": "modevc.chart.v1", |
| "slug": "best-llm-for-coding", |
| "title": "Best LLM for Coding: The Arena Coding Leaderboard", |
| "date": "2026-09-09", |
| "canonical_url": "https://modevc.com/charts/best-llm-for-coding/", |
| "claim": "claude-opus-4-6-high leads Arena coding at 1535. Anthropic has held #1 for 280 days, but Z.ai and Google sit within the interval, 19 points back.", |
| "takeaway": "In coding, the lead has lasted 9 months. The challenger is already inside the margin of error.", |
| "sources": [ |
| { |
| "name": "Arena leaderboard dataset (lmarena-ai, CC BY 4.0)", |
| "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset" |
| }, |
| { |
| "name": "Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash release note", |
| "url": "https://docs.z.ai/guides/vlm/glm-5.3-flash" |
| } |
| ], |
| "data": { |
| "type": "hbar", |
| "fmt": "pts", |
| "labelHead": "Best model (lab)", |
| "valueHead": "Points above #50", |
| "rows": [ |
| { |
| "label": "claude-opus-4-6-high (Anthropic)", |
| "v": 61.5, |
| "logo": "si-anthropic" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "glm-5.3-flash (Z.ai)", |
| "v": 42.2, |
| "logo": "lh-zai" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "gemini-3.8-flash-high (Google)", |
| "v": 42.1, |
| "logo": "si-google" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "kimi-k3-max (Moonshot)", |
| "v": 36.7, |
| "logo": "lh-moonshot" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "mimo-v2.5-pro (Xiaomi)", |
| "v": 26.6, |
| "logo": "si-xiaomi" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "qwen3.8-max (Alibaba)", |
| "v": 24.5, |
| "logo": "si-qwen" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "muse-spark-1.2 (xHigh) (Meta)", |
| "v": 22.3, |
| "logo": "si-meta" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "gpt-5.4-high (OpenAI)", |
| "v": 21.5, |
| "logo": "lh-openai" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "ernie-5.1 (Baidu)", |
| "v": 14.9, |
| "logo": "lh-baidu" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "amazon-nova-experimental-chat-26-02-10 (Amazon)", |
| "v": 11.2, |
| "logo": "lh-aws" |
| }, |
| { |
| "label": "grok-4.5 (xAI)", |
| "v": 8.7, |
| "logo": "lh-xai" |
| } |
| ] |
| } |
| } |
