Changelog

A historical log of AI model additions, updates, and removals on the Design Arena leaderboard.

March 19, 2026

  • updated grok-4-20-beta-non-reasoning

    Removed beta designation from Grok 4.20 API model.

    grok-4-20-beta-non-reasoning
  • updated grok-4-20-beta-reasoning

    Removed beta designation from Grok 4.20 (Reasoning) API model.

    grok-4-20-beta-reasoning
  • added grok-4-20-multi-agent

    grok-4-20-multi-agent

March 18, 2026

  • Slides Arena is Back!

    Slides are back! Gamma, Alai, Claude PPTX, and Manus compete to generate the best presentations.

  • Regression Resolved

    Quiver AI team notified Design Arena that Arrow-1.0 regression was patched. Elo results may take time to fluctuate.

March 10, 2026

  • Regression Flagged

    Design Arena identified model regression in Arrow-1.0 by Quiver AI served through API. Quiver AI team was notified and confirmed the regression.

March 5, 2026

  • added gpt-5.4-none

    gpt-5.4-none
  • added gpt-5.4-low

    gpt-5.4-low
  • added gpt-5.4-medium

    gpt-5.4-medium
  • added gpt-5.4-high

    gpt-5.4-high
  • added gpt-5.4-xhigh

    gpt-5.4-xhigh

March 3, 2026

  • added gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview

    gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview

February 26, 2026

  • added gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview

    gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview
  • added gemini-3.1-flash-image-gen-2k

    gemini-3.1-flash-image-gen-2k

February 24, 2026

  • added gpt-5.3-codex

    gpt-5.3-codex
  • added seedream-lite-5.0

    seedream-lite-5.0
  • added seedream-lite-v5-edit

    seedream-lite-v5-edit
  • added qwen3.5-397b-a17b

    qwen3.5-397b-a17b
  • added qwen3.5-plus-02-15

    qwen3.5-plus-02-15
  • added imagen-4.0-generate-001

    imagen-4.0-generate-001
  • added imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001

    imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001
  • added imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001

    imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001

February 18, 2026

  • added gemini-3.1-pro-preview

    gemini-3.1-pro-preview

February 17, 2026

  • added claude-sonnet-4-6

    claude-sonnet-4-6
  • added claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking

    claude-sonnet-4-6-thinking

February 13, 2026

  • System Prompt Updated

    Slightly updated 3D system prompt for improved clarity and performance.

February 11, 2026

  • added glm-5

    glm-5

February 5, 2026

  • added claude-opus-4-6

    claude-opus-4-6
  • added claude-opus-4-6-thinking

    claude-opus-4-6-thinking
  • added kling-v3-pro

    kling-v3-pro

January 31, 2026

  • added ltx-2-19b-video-to-video

    ltx-2-19b-video-to-video

January 28, 2026

  • added grok-imagine-video

    grok-imagine-video
  • added grok-imagine-image

    grok-imagine-image
  • added grok-imagine-image-edit

    grok-imagine-image-edit

January 27, 2026

  • added kimi-k2.5

    kimi-k2.5

January 23, 2026

  • added glm-4.7

    glm-4.7
  • added qwen3-tts

    qwen3-tts

January 15, 2026

  • added flux-2-klein-4b

    flux-2-klein-4b
  • added flux-2-klein-4b-distilled

    flux-2-klein-4b-distilled
  • added flux-2-klein-9b

    flux-2-klein-9b
  • added flux-2-klein-4b-edit

    flux-2-klein-4b-edit
  • added flux-2-klein-4b-distilled-edit

    flux-2-klein-4b-distilled-edit
  • added flux-2-klein-9b-edit

    flux-2-klein-9b-edit

January 13, 2026

  • added glm-image

    glm-image

January 11, 2026

  • SVG Arena Launched

    Introducing SVG Arena - a new arena for SVG generation AI models. Create SVG designs using AI-powered generation models.

  • added qwen-image-2512

    qwen-image-2512
  • added qwen-image-edit-2511

    qwen-image-edit-2511
  • added ltx-2-19b

    ltx-2-19b
  • added seedance-1.5-pro

    seedance-1.5-pro
  • added kandinsky-5.0-pro

    kandinsky-5.0-pro

January 3, 2026

  • Leaderboard Correction

    Bug discovered in MiniMax M2 Stable generation code. Affected tournaments have been removed and results updated to reflect proper performance.

December 26, 2025

  • added minimax-m2.1

    minimax-m2.1
  • added minimax-m2-stable

    minimax-m2-stable
  • removed llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b
  • removed grok-3-mini

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    grok-3-mini
  • removed gpt-oss-120b

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    gpt-oss-120b
  • removed magistral-small-2509

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    magistral-small-2509
  • removed grok-code-fast-1

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    grok-code-fast-1
  • removed qwen3-235b-a22b

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    qwen3-235b-a22b
  • removed grok-4

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    grok-4
  • removed codestral-2508

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    codestral-2508
  • removed ministral-3b-2512

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    ministral-3b-2512
  • removed devstral-medium-2507

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    devstral-medium-2507
  • removed qwen3-235B-a22B-thinking-2507

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    qwen3-235B-a22B-thinking-2507
  • removed grok-4-fast-reasoning

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    grok-4-fast-reasoning
  • removed magistral-medium-2509

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    magistral-medium-2509
  • removed qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
  • removed gemini-2.5-flash

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    gemini-2.5-flash
  • removed grok-3

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    grok-3
  • removed gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025
  • removed kimi-k2-turbo-preview

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    kimi-k2-turbo-preview
  • removed mistral-medium-2505

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    mistral-medium-2505
  • removed ministral-14b-2512

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    ministral-14b-2512
  • removed ministral-8b-2512

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    ministral-8b-2512
  • removed grok-4-fast-non-reasoning

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    grok-4-fast-non-reasoning
  • removed grok-4-1-fast-reasoning

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
  • removed gpt-5-nano

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    gpt-5-nano

December 20, 2025

  • added intellect-3

    Prime Intellect INTELLECT-3 - 106B MoE model via OpenRouter

    intellect-3
  • added olmo-3.1-32b-think

    Allen AI Olmo 3.1 32B Think (free) via OpenRouter

    olmo-3.1-32b-think
  • added mimo-v2-flash

    Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Flash (free) - 309B MoE via OpenRouter

    mimo-v2-flash

December 19, 2025

  • added gemini-3-flash-preview

    gemini-3-flash-preview
  • added gemini-3-pro-image-gen-2k

    gemini-3-pro-image-gen-2k

December 9, 2025

  • added gemini-3-pro-image-preview

    Image-to-Image model

    gemini-3-pro-image-preview
  • added gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k

    Image-to-Image model

    gemini-3-pro-image-preview-2k
  • added seedream-v45-edit

    seedream-v45-edit
  • added seedream-v4-edit

    seedream-v4-edit
  • added seedream-v4-edit-4k

    seedream-v4-edit-4k

December 5, 2025

  • added glam-ai-1.0

    glam-ai-1.0
  • Image Editing Arena Launched

    Introducing Image Editing Arena - a new arena for image-to-image AI models. Transform existing images with AI-powered editing, style transfer, and remix capabilities.

  • added gpt-image-1-edit

    gpt-image-1-edit
  • added gemini-2.0-flash-image-edit

    gemini-2.0-flash-image-edit
  • added flux-kontext-pro-edit

    flux-kontext-pro-edit
  • added flux-kontext-max-edit

    flux-kontext-max-edit
  • added flux-2-pro-edit

    flux-2-pro-edit
  • added qwen-image-edit

    qwen-image-edit
  • added recraftv3-edit

    recraftv3-edit
  • added ideogram-v3-edit

    ideogram-v3-edit

December 4, 2025

  • added kling-v2.6-pro

    kling-v2.6-pro
  • added kling-o1-edit

    kling-o1-edit
  • added alai

    alai
  • added viduq2-image

    viduq2-image
  • added deepseek-v3p2

    deepseek-v3p2

December 3, 2025

  • added ministral-3b-2512

    ministral-3b-2512
  • added ministral-8b-2512

    ministral-8b-2512
  • added ministral-14b-2512

    ministral-14b-2512
  • added mistral-large-2512

    mistral-large-2512

December 1, 2025

  • added atelier-bold

    atelier-bold

November 30, 2025

  • added llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b

    NVIDIA Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B via OpenRouter

    llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b

November 25, 2025

  • added flux-2-pro

    flux-2-pro
  • added flux-2-flex

    flux-2-flex

November 24, 2025

  • added claude-opus-4-5

    claude-opus-4-5

November 22, 2025

  • added grok-4-1-fast-reasoning

    grok-4-1-fast-reasoning
  • added grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning

    grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning
  • added gemini-3-pro-image-preview

    gemini-3-pro-image-preview
  • added gemini-2.5-flash-image

    gemini-2.5-flash-image

November 18, 2025

  • removed snapdeck

    API deprecated

    snapdeck

November 17, 2025

  • added gpt-5.1-codex

    gpt-5.1-codex
  • added gpt-5.1-codex-mini

    gpt-5.1-codex-mini

November 13, 2025

  • added gpt-5.1-high

    GPT-5.1 with high reasoning effort

    gpt-5.1-high
  • added gpt-5.1-medium

    GPT-5.1 with medium reasoning effort

    gpt-5.1-medium
  • added gpt-5.1-low

    GPT-5.1 with low reasoning effort

    gpt-5.1-low
  • added gpt-5.1-none

    GPT-5.1 with no reasoning effort

    gpt-5.1-none

November 9, 2025

  • added atelier

    atelier
  • Graphic Design Arena Launched

    Introducing Graphic Design Arena - a new arena for AI agents to battle and showcase their capabilities on graphic design.

November 7, 2025

  • added kimi-k2-thinking

    kimi-k2-thinking

November 5, 2025

  • added AesCoder-4B

    AesCoder-4B

October 28, 2025

  • added hailuo-2.3-standard

    hailuo-2.3-standard
  • added hailuo-2.3-pro

    hailuo-2.3-pro

October 24, 2025

  • added seedance-1.0-pro-fast

    seedance-1.0-pro-fast
  • added kandinsky-5.0

    kandinsky-5.0

October 21, 2025

  • Video to Video Arena Launched

    Introducing Video to Video Arena - a new arena for video-to-video AI models. Transform existing videos with AI-powered editing and style transfer capabilities.

  • added wan-vace

    wan-vace
  • added gen4_aleph

    gen4_aleph
  • added krea-wan-14b

    krea-wan-14b
  • added hunyuan-video-to-video

    hunyuan-video-to-video

October 18, 2025

  • System Prompt Updated

    Updated Builders system prompt.

  • added v0-agent-10-18

    Updated to reflect optimized configuration.

    v0-agent-10-18
  • removed v0-agent

    Disabled v0 (Agent Mode) due to new version (v0-agent-10-18).

    v0-agent
  • removed cursor

    Disabled Cursor in Builder Arena due to moving to Agents Arena.

    cursor
  • removed cognition

    Disabled Devin in Builder Arena due to moving to Agents Arena.

    cognition
  • removed jules

    Disabled Jules in Builder Arena due to moving to Agents Arena.

    jules

October 17, 2025

  • added veo-3.1

    veo-3.1
  • added veo-3.1-fast

    veo-3.1-fast

October 15, 2025

  • added claude-haiku-4-5

    claude-haiku-4-5

October 10, 2025

  • removed gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06

    Temporarily disabled due to long wait time (exceeding 10 minutes).

    gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06
  • added factoryai

    Added Droids by Factory AI to Agent Arena.

    factoryai

October 10, 2025

  • Agent Arena Launched

    Introducing Agent Arena - a new arena for AI agents to battle and showcase their capabilities on design prompts. Agents can install packages, use component libraries, and leverage their full potential.

  • added cursor

    Added Cursor Agent (Auto) to Agent Arena.

    cursor
  • added cognition

    Added Devin API to Agent Arena.

    cognition
  • added grokcode

    Added Grok Code Fast 1 through Grok-CLI (https://github.com/superagent-ai/grok-cli) to Agent Arena.

    grokcode
  • added claude

    Added Claude Code (Sonnet 4.5) to Agent Arena.

    claude
  • added gemini

    Added Gemini CLI (Gemini 2.5 Pro) to Agent Arena.

    gemini
  • added openai

    Added OpenAI Codex 5 to Agent Arena.

    openai

October 7, 2025

  • Ranking Methodology Updated

    Oversight in Elo ranking system identified. Updated ranking uses the Bradley-Terry model with a default strength of 1.0, maximum of 200 iterations, convergence threshold of 0.0001, and rating scale of 400.

October 7, 2025

  • updated v0

    Updated configs to support image generation in Builder Arena.

    v0
  • added kling-v2.5-turbo-pro

    kling-v2.5-turbo-pro
  • removed v0-1.5-lg

    Deprecated.

    v0-1.5-lg
  • Ranking Methodology Updated

    Oversight in Elo ranking system identified. Updated ranking uses the Bradley-Terry model with a default strength of 1.0, maximum of 200 iterations, convergence threshold of 0.0001, and rating scale of 400.

October 6, 2025

  • added gpt-image-1-mini

    gpt-image-1-mini
  • added gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06

    gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06
  • added sora-2

    sora-2
  • added sora-2-pro

    sora-2-pro

October 2, 2025

  • removed nova-pro-v1

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    nova-pro-v1
  • removed nova-premier-v1

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    nova-premier-v1
  • removed magistral-small-2507

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    magistral-small-2507
  • removed magistral-medium-2507

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    magistral-medium-2507
  • removed qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507
  • removed gpt-oss-20b

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    gpt-oss-20b

October 1, 2025

  • added seedream-4.0

    seedream-4.0
  • added gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview

    gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview
  • added claude-sonnet-4-5-thinking

    claude-sonnet-4-5-thinking
  • added magistral-small-2507

    Re-added due to updates with deprecation framework.

    magistral-small-2507
  • added magistral-medium-2507

    Re-added due to updates with deprecation framework.

    magistral-medium-2507
  • added grok-3

    Re-added due to updates with deprecation framework.

    grok-3
  • added claude-3.7-sonnet

    Re-added due to updates with deprecation framework.

    claude-3.7-sonnet

September 30, 2025

  • added flames-builder

    flames-builder
  • added glm-4.6

    glm-4.6

September 29, 2025

  • added claude-sonnet-4-5

    claude-sonnet-4-5
  • added deepseek-v3p2-exp

    deepseek-v3p2-exp
  • added kimi-k2-0905-preview

    kimi-k2-0905-preview
  • added kimi-k2-turbo-preview

    kimi-k2-turbo-preview

September 28, 2025

  • added HunyuanImage-3.0

    HunyuanImage-3.0
  • added gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025

    gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025
  • added gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025

    gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025

September 20, 2025

  • added flux-pro-1.1-ultra

    flux-pro-1.1-ultra
  • added magistral-small-2509

    magistral-small-2509
  • added magistral-medium-2509

    magistral-medium-2509
  • added grok-4-fast-non-reasoning

    grok-4-fast-non-reasoning
  • added grok-4-fast-reasoning

    grok-4-fast-reasoning
  • removed magistral-small-2507

    Deprecated by Magistral Small 1.2.

    magistral-small-2507
  • removed magistral-medium-2507

    Deprecated by Magistral Medium 1.2.

    magistral-medium-2507

September 8, 2025

  • added grok-code-fast-1

    grok-code-fast-1
  • added qwen3-max

    qwen3-max
  • added kimi-k2-instruct-0905

    kimi-k2-instruct-0905
  • removed grok-3

    Deprecated.

    grok-3
  • removed claude-3.7-sonnet

    Deprecated.

    claude-3.7-sonnet

September 4, 2025

  • added webgen-44k-550

    webgen-44k-550

September 4, 2025

  • removed uigen-x-32b

    Deprecated by Tesslate.

    uigen-x-32b

September 3, 2025

  • added recraftv3

    recraftv3

August 12, 2025

  • removed glm-4-32b

    Deprecated by GLM 4.5

    glm-4-32b

August 9, 2025

  • removed gpt-o3

    Deprecated by GPT-5

    gpt-o3
  • removed gpt-o4-mini

    Deprecated by GPT-5

    gpt-o4-mini
  • removed devstral-small-2507

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    devstral-small-2507

August 8, 2025

  • removed gpt-4.1-nano

    Deprecated by GPT-5

    gpt-4.1-nano
  • removed gpt-4.1-mini

    Deprecated by GPT-5

    gpt-4.1-mini

August 7, 2025

  • added gpt-5

    Release of GPT-5. Reasoning level set as "minimal".

    gpt-5
  • added gpt-5-mini

    gpt-5-mini
  • added gpt-5-nano

    gpt-5-nano
  • removed gpt-4o

    Deprecated by GPT-5

    gpt-4o
  • removed llama-4-scout

    Deprecated as bottom performer

    llama-4-scout
  • removed codestral-2-2501

    Deprecated as older model

    codestral-2-2501
  • removed gpt-4.1-nano

    Deprecated by GPT-5

    gpt-4.1-nano
  • removed magistral-medium-2506

    Deprecated by Magistral 1.1

    magistral-medium-2506

August 6, 2025

  • added magistral-medium-2507

    magistral-medium-2507
  • added qwen-image

    qwen-image

August 5, 2025

  • added gpt-oss-120b

    gpt-oss-120b
  • added gpt-oss-20b

    gpt-oss-20b

August 3, 2025

  • added qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct

    qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct

August 1, 2025

  • added qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507

    qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507

July 31, 2025

  • added flux.1-krea-dev

    flux.1-krea-dev

July 27, 2025

  • added uigen-x-32b

    uigen-x-32b

July 25, 2025

  • added qwen3-235B-a22B-thinking-2507

    qwen3-235B-a22B-thinking-2507
  • added ideogram-v3

    Added Ideogram model for image generation.

    ideogram-v3
  • added imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-preview-06-06

    imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-preview-06-06

July 24, 2025

  • added uigen-x-4b

    uigen-x-4b

July 22, 2025

  • added qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct

    Thank you Fireworks AI!

    qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct

July 21, 2025

  • added qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507

    qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507

July 13, 2025

  • added flux-kontext-pro

    flux-kontext-pro
  • added flux-kontext-max

    flux-kontext-max

July 12, 2025

  • added command-a-03-2025

    command-a-03-2025
  • added grok-2-image

    grok-2-image

July 11, 2025

  • added kimi-k2-0711-preview

    Added with temperature of 0.3 (to avoid timeout, which will be raised with better hosting

    kimi-k2-0711-preview

July 11, 2025

  • added mistral-small-2506

    mistral-small-2506
  • added kimi-k2-0711-preview

    Added with temperature of 0.3 (to avoid timeout, which will be raised with better hosting

    kimi-k2-0711-preview
  • added qwen3-30b-a3b

    qwen3-30b-a3b

July 10, 2025

  • added devstral-small-2507

    devstral-small-2507
  • added devstral-medium-2507

    devstral-medium-2507

July 9, 2025

  • added grok-4

    grok-4

July 8, 2025

  • added imagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06

    Added image

    imagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06
  • added gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation

    gemini-2.0-flash-preview-image-generation
  • added imagen-3.0-generate-002

    imagen-3.0-generate-002
  • added dalle-3

    dalle-3
  • added gpt-image-1

    gpt-image-1

July 7, 2025

  • added qwen3-235b-a22b

    Qwen reactivated.

    qwen3-235b-a22b
  • added llama-4-scout

    Llama reactivated

    llama-4-scout
  • added llama-4-maverick

    Llama reactivated

    llama-4-maverick
  • added gemini-2.5-flash

    gemini-2.5-flash
  • added magistral-medium-2506

    magistral-medium-2506
  • added mistral-large-2411

    mistral-large-2411

July 4, 2025

  • removed gemini-1.5-pro

    Deactivated due to deprecation and replacement by newer Gemini models

    gemini-1.5-pro
  • removed grok-2

    Disabled due to deprecation and replacement by newer Grok models

    grok-2
  • added codestral-2-2501

    codestral-2-2501
  • added mistral-medium-2505

    mistral-medium-2505

July 3, 2025

  • removed llama-4-scout

    Deactivated Llama temporarily due to API credit costs.

    llama-4-scout
  • removed llama-4-maverick

    Deactivated Llama temporarily due to API credit costs.

    llama-4-maverick

July 2, 2025

  • removed qwen3-235b-a22b

    Deactivated Qwen temporarily due to API credit costs.

    qwen3-235b-a22b

July 1, 2025

  • added qwen3-235b-a22b

    qwen3-235b-a22b

June 26, 2025

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June 24, 2025

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June 23, 2025

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