
Long-Context Benchmarks Leaderboard: MRCR, RULER, and LongBench v2
Rankings of the best AI models for long-context tasks, measuring retrieval accuracy, reasoning, and comprehension across massive context windows from 128K to 10M tokens.
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Rankings of the best AI models for long-context tasks, measuring retrieval accuracy, reasoning, and comprehension across massive context windows from 128K to 10M tokens.

Comprehensive ranking of the top large language models in February 2026, combining multiple benchmarks including reasoning, coding, knowledge, and multimodal capabilities.

Anthropic's new mid-tier model matches Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, ships a million-token context window, and keeps the same $3/$15 pricing as its predecessor.

A plain-English guide to AI benchmarks like MMLU, GPQA, SWE-Bench, and Chatbot Arena Elo, explaining what they measure and why no single score tells the whole story.

Rankings of the best AI models for coding tasks across SWE-Bench, Terminal-Bench, and LiveCodeBench benchmarks, measuring real-world software engineering and algorithmic problem-solving ability.

Rankings of AI models on the hardest reasoning benchmarks available: GPQA Diamond, AIME competition math, and the notoriously difficult Humanity's Last Exam.

Rankings of the best multimodal AI models for image understanding, video analysis, and visual reasoning, covering MMMU-Pro, Video-MMMU, and more.

Complete MMLU-Pro benchmark rankings measuring graduate-level knowledge across 14 subjects with 12,000 questions and 10 answer options per question.

DeepSeek releases V3.2 under MIT license with 671B MoE architecture, matching GPT-5 at one-tenth the cost and achieving gold-medal performance on IMO and IOI competitions.

Analysis of how the MMLU benchmark gap between open-source and proprietary AI narrowed from 17.5 to 0.3 percentage points in a single year, reshaping the industry landscape.

Anthropic's November 2025 flagship model delivers top SWE-bench scores, a new effort parameter for reasoning control, and a 66% price cut from its predecessor.

Anthropic's fastest and most cost-efficient model, delivering 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified and first-in-family extended thinking and computer use at $1/$5 per million tokens.