How to see AI Rankings in Arena Leaderboards

Last updated: March 17, 2026

How to Use Arena Leaderboards and Filters

Arena leaderboards rank AI models based on human preference votes from real head-to-head battles. When users compare model outputs and choose the better response, those votes are aggregated into a rating that determines each model’s position on the leaderboard. This guide explains how to navigate leaderboards and apply filters such as Expert and Occupational rankings.

Understanding Leaderboard Rankings

Each leaderboard ranks models by how often they are preferred in Arena battles. As more comparisons are completed, rankings update to reflect the latest results.

Common columns include:

Rank – The model’s position relative to others
Rank Spread - Shows the range of possible ranks based on confidence intervals

Score – Performance based on battle outcomes. The +/- next to the score represents the confidence interval (statistical certainty of the rating)
Votes – Number of comparisons the model has participated in
Price $/M – Input/Output Price per Million Tokens

Navigating Leaderboards

On the Leaderboards page, you can view rankings across different arenas and task types.

Common leaderboard tabs include:

Overview – Top models across multiple arenas
Text – Rankings for general text performance
Code – Models evaluated on coding tasks
Vision – Models ranked on image understanding
Document - Models ranked in document analysis and long-content reasoning

Text-to-Image – Image generation models
Image Edit – Image editing models
Search – Models that retrieve and synthesize web information
Text-to-Video – Rankings across text to video AI models
Image-to-Video - Rankings across image to video AI models

Using Leaderboard Filters

The leaderboards includes a dropdown filter (default: 🏆 Overall) that lets you view rankings for specific evaluation groups.

Expert Leaderboard

The Expert Leaderboard shows model performance on prompts created by expert contributors.

To view it:

Go to a leaderboard (for example, Text).
Click Show Filters.
Click the Categories.
Select Expert Leaderboard.

Occupational Leaderboards

Arena also provides rankings based on prompts associated with specific professions.

To view these:

Go to a leaderboard (for example, Text).
Click Show Filters.
Click the Categories.
Select an occupation from the list.

The leaderboard will update to show model rankings for prompts related to that professional domain.

Why Leaderboards Matter

Arena leaderboards provide a live, human-evaluated benchmark for AI models. Because rankings come from real user comparisons, they reflect how models perform in practical use cases.

You can use leaderboards to:

Compare models across different tasks.
Identify strengths and weaknesses across model families.
Find top models for specific domains or professions.