Claude Sonnet 5.5 xHigh lands #3 on Code Arena WebDev, 2 pts behind GPT-6 Astra
arena · x · 2026-10-02
Code Arena: WebDev leaderboard update: Claude Sonnet 5.5 with xHigh reasoning debuts at #3 with 1786 pts, just 2 pts behind GPT-6 Astra (#2, 1788) at 80% of its price ($8/M blended), staying on the price-performance Pareto frontier.
By domain it ranks #2 in Gaming and Reference-Based Design. The overall leader is claude-opus-5.5-max (1815 pts, $4/M); the top 15 also include GPT-6.1 Sol, Gemini 4 Argon (1680), Qwen3.8-Max (1671), Kimi K3 (1658), and Grok-4.7 (1638). The leaderboard has gathered 838,388+ votes across 138 models.
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