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Only 1 of the Top AI Coding Models on WebDev Arena Isn't Chinese

The WebDev Arena leaderboard reveals that among the top 18 AI models for web development, only one—Anthropic's Claude Fable 5—is not from a Chinese company. The rankings are based on over 422,000 votes across 18 labs.

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Code Arena | WebDev🏆Overall

View overall rankings across AI models on front-end web development tasks, including agentic coding workflows that require multi-step reasoning and tool use.

Jul 1, 2026

422,204 votes

18 labs

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Lab Rank

Model Score

Rank Spread

1

Anthropic

claude-fable-5 · Proprietary

1653+15/-15

1

11

2

Z.ai

glm-5.2 (max)

1584+12/-12

2

22

3

Bytedance

seed-2.1-pro-preview · Proprietary

1539+13/-13

8

313

4

Alibaba

qwen3.7-max-20260517 · Proprietary

1526+10/-10

11

615

5

Moonshot

kimi-k2.6

1514+8/-8

14

1117

6

Google

gemini-3.5-flash · Proprietary

1510+9/-9

15

1117

7

MiniMax

minimax-m3

1501+10/-10

16

1419

8

OpenAI

gpt-5.5-xhigh (codex-harness) · Proprietary

1501+8/-8

17

1419

9

Xiaomi

mimo-v2.5-pro

1473+8/-8

21

1925

10

DeepSeek

deepseek-v4-pro-thinking

1457+8/-8

26

2231

11

xAI

grok-4.20-beta-0309-reasoning · Proprietary

1383+7/-7

52

4256

12

Tencent

hunyuan-hy3-preview

1362+17/-17

59

5065

13

Poolside

laguna-m.1

1351+13/-13

63

5468

14

Mistral

mistral-medium-3.5

1269+15/-15

76

7482

15

KwaiKAT

KAT-Coder-Pro-V1 · Proprietary

1259+16/-16

77

7683

16

Arcee AI

trinity-large-thinking

1243+19/-19

80

7685

17

IBM

granite-4.1-8b

1200+18/-18

87

8489

18

Inception AI

mercury-2 · Proprietary

1165+23/-23

89

8791

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