Curated, every major LLM as of mid July 2026 and how they currently rank

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A snapshot of where the frontier actually stands right now, since this changes fast enough that lists go stale within weeks. Based on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index scores, SWE-bench and GPQA Diamond results, and current market share data as of mid July 2026

Overall frontier leader, Claude Opus 4.8 currently tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61.4, edging out GPT-5.6, with particularly strong scores in coding, SWE-bench Pro 69.2 percent, and computer use agent tasks, Online-Mind2Web 84 percent

Best for coding specifically, Claude Fable 5 leads frontier coding benchmarks at roughly 95 percent on SWE-bench Verified by some measures, having just returned to public availability on July 1 after an 18 day suspension tied to a US export control order, notably the first frontier model ever switched off and back on for regulatory reasons rather than a technical or safety issue

Default everyday chat model, GPT-5.6, specifically the Sol variant, became ChatGPT's new default on July 9, replacing GPT-5.5, and is tuned for harder math, science and cybersecurity reasoning, alongside cheaper Terra and Luna variants aimed at everyday use and budget conscious deployments respectively

Best for hardest mode reasoning, Gemini 3.1 Pro leads on GPQA Diamond at 94.3 percent and scores 77.1 percent on ARC-AGI-2, with native, highly reliable Google Search grounding for real time factual questions. A further update, Gemini 3.5 Pro, is expected imminently and could reshuffle this entire ranking on arrival

Best value frontier option, Grok 4.5 became publicly available this month and is currently the cheapest model inside the genuine top tier by GPQA Diamond score, strongest specifically for real time X and web context that other labs can't easily replicate

Best mid tier value pick, Qwen 3.7 Max from Alibaba, the highest ranked Chinese model on most current leaderboards, scoring competitively on math heavy benchmarks like HMMT at a fraction of frontier pricing

Open weights leaders, DeepSeek V4 Pro, GLM-5.2 from Z.AI, and Kimi K2.6 and K2.7 from Moonshot AI now trade blows with closed frontier models on reasoning and coding benchmarks at dramatically lower cost, DeepSeek's models in particular have been pushing frontier class quality below 1 dollar per million tokens with launch pricing

Market share, by actual web visit share this remains a very different picture from the benchmark rankings, ChatGPT holds roughly 54 percent of worldwide web traffic across major AI chatbots, Google Gemini sits at around 28 percent and has grown roughly 450 percent year over year, and Claude has grown the fastest of any major assistant, up roughly 855 percent year over year to about 9 percent worldwide share, driven heavily by developer adoption

The honest caveat that applies to every list like this, benchmark scores this close together, often within 2 to 3 percentage points, are functionally indistinguishable for most everyday use, the practical choice usually comes down to task fit, ecosystem integration and price rather than chasing whichever model tops a specific leaderboard that week according to AI Leaderboard 2026: Compare & Rank 300+ Top AI Models by Intelligence, Speed & Price