Significance bands

Adjacent ranks that the measurement cannot separate. The band is the object; the integer is a footnote. We do not invent a crisp #1.

93% adjacent pairs inside published error
64/134 distinct significance ranks / scored models
3 joint first — no crisp #1

LMArena publishes per-model 95% CI half-widths (CC BY 4.0). Adjacent models are inseparable when their intervals overlap.

Artificial Analysis board (evaluation only)

The live leaderboard still groups AA intelligence with a borrowed ±1.41 difference bound. On this catalogue that yields 93% of adjacent pairs (124 of 133) inside the band, and 3 joint-first models — but Artificial Analysis redistribution is unresolved, so this figure is shown for evaluation, not as a redistributable claim.

Sig. rankModelElo± half-width
1Claude Opus 515044.8
1Claude Opus 4.615033.5
1Claude Fable 514955.2
3Gemini 3.7 Flash14908.1
3Claude Opus 4.714903.9
4Gemini 3.5 Flash14834.5
4Qwen3.8 Max14826.8
5Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview14803.3
5Muse Spark 1.114785.3
4GLM 5.314779.9
6Gemini 3.6 Flash14775.4
5Kimi K314765.8
9GPT-5.514713.9
9GPT-5.414703.9
12GLM 5.214654.8
12MiMo-V2.5-Pro14654.0
12GLM 5.114644.1
15Claude Opus 4.814614.4
15Claude Sonnet 4.614583.6
18Gemini 2.5 Pro14572.5
16Qwen3.7 Plus14564.7
18Kimi K2.614554.5
18GPT-5.6 Sol14545.4
18Grok 4.514525.2
21Claude Opus 4.514503.2
20Qwen3.6 Max Preview14468.3
22GPT-5.6 Terra14465.3
24Kimi K2.514453.3
23GLM 514454.3
21Grok 4.6144410.1
24Claude Sonnet 514424.9
23Gemma 4 31B14427.5
26GPT-5.114413.7
23Hy314418.1
22Qwen3.8 27B144110.5
26GLM 4.614403.9
23DeepSeek V4 Pro 042314399.8
26Inkling14395.4
27Qwen3.5 397B A17B14383.4
28Claude Sonnet 4.514382.9
27Qwen3.6 Plus14374.2
26GLM 5V Turbo14376.7
26Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite14375.5
27GLM 4.714356.0
29MiniMax M314354.5
26Gemma 4 26B A4B 14357.6
33DeepSeek V4 Flash 042314324.1
35GLM 4.514294.9