Coding · sub-raceNarrow lead
Frontend & UI race
Building interfaces people actually like: layout, styling, interaction polish and taste, judged by blind votes on rendered apps.
- Leader
- Opus 5.5
- Margin
- 10 Elo
- 0.6% ahead
- Weeks at #1
- 4
- in a row
- Changes
- 5
- in 2026
Warming up the track…
Oct 19, 2026Opus 5.5 leads
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Score history
Top 6 today over the leader's frontier · click to jump to a week
#1 frontierOpus 5.5Sonnet 5.5Kimi K3Fable 5.1GPT-6 AstraGPT-6.1 Sol
Reigns at #1
Longest: Opus 4.6, 14 weeks (from Feb 2026).
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Why this race matters
Front-end output is judged visually. Models with taste save hours of design iteration.
How it is scored
Elo-style rating from blind pairwise comparisons of rendered output.
Unit: eloHigher is betterPhoto finish under 5 EloDominant over 30 Elo
Data provenance
Pairwise votes on full web apps generated from the same prompt.
Design Arena
Votes on UI components and landing pages.
Scores here are illustrative placeholders that mimic real benchmark patterns. Swap in live data through the score provider. Methodology