Mode VC Chart: Best LLM for Coding: The Arena Coding Leaderboard
claude-opus-4-6-high leads Arena coding at 1535. Anthropic has held #1 for 280 days, but Z.ai.
Score100
How is this score calculated?
- Weighted across six dimensions, scored 0-100.
- Provenance (25): listed in an official or curated registry.
- Installability (25): a runnable install command beats a declared transport, which beats a source checkout.
- Maintenance (20): recency of the last push; archived entries score zero here.
- Adoption (20): repository stars on a log curve.
- Documentation (10) and description quality (10): parsed manifest or SKILL.md frontmatter, and a real description rather than a placeholder.