A year of Code Arena WebDev progress, compressed into 15 seconds
Code Arena plots each top lab's highest-scoring model over time, showing the leading score rose 340 points in a year and the frontier field grew from 6 to 10 labs.
Nearly a year of Code Arena: WebDev progress compressed into 15 seconds. Each line follows the highest-scoring model from top labs over time, showing the pace of improvement across the ecosystem. In just the last year, the model in the leading spot increased score by +340 pts and the number of frontier labs competing for the top spot expanded from 6 to 10. @AnthropicAI has dominated throughout the year. Although standout releases have jumped to the top spot, most notably the Chinese open-source model Kimi K3 from @Kimi_Moonshot in July. Today, GPT-6 Astra by @OpenAI leads with 1796 pts, followed by @claudeai Fable 5.1 at 1764 pts. The next closest lab is 103 pts away, @Alibaba_Qwen with 1685 pts. Code Arena: WebDev ranks models through head-to-head user preference on real front-end web development tasks. These votes drive the leaderboard that is tracking the frontier.