LMArena Pareto Frontier: Claude Opus 5 Max Leads, DeepSeek V4 Flash Best Value

arena · x · 2026-08-14

LMArena updated the Pareto frontiers for Code Arena: WebDev and Text Arena, showing the best models at each price point. In WebDev, Claude Opus 5 Max tops with 1691 points at $20/month, followed by Kimi K3 Max (1674, $12) and Qwen3.8 Max (1669, $5). DeepSeek V4 Flash High offers great value at 1582 points for $0.25/month. Gemini 3.7 Flash High also reshaped Text Arena with 1490 points.

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