#1
Claude Opus 4.6 Search
Anthropic
Leads the dedicated search-and-retrieval board.
Arena score1253±5
- search answer preference
- web retrieval workflow
The model that wins your task, wired into your business.
No single model wins everything. Today the leader in code is not the leader in voice, the best model for documents loses on images, and half of these positions move within a month. That is what the board below is for: the top 3 for each of 26 tasks, rebuilt every 10 days from public leaderboards and independent tests.
Then I build the thing that uses it. Agents that handle support, pipelines that read invoices and contracts, voice that answers the phone, bots that qualify leads while you sleep. It plugs into what you already run — CRM, spreadsheets, Telegram, your own API — and every step calls the model that wins that particular step, whichever provider it belongs to.
Write me on Telegram — @simvimTell me which process eats your week. I answer myself.
Search and research
Search and research
For web search, evidence gathering and sourced answers.
The dedicated search board updates slower than the ten-day rebuild cycle.
#2
GPT-5.5 Search
OpenAI
Places second on the same search board.
Arena score1240±5
- search focused responses
- strong arena preference
#3
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
Completes the leading trio for search tasks.
Arena score1237±8
- search answer quality
- broad research reasoning
How the ranking is built
There is no single “best AI model” here. Every task is judged on its own: public leaderboards, independent tests and official model data, weighed together rather than copied from one board. The whole thing is re-checked every 10 days. Two modes of the same base model never take two places in one top 3. Likes are a separate reader signal — they never move the ranking.