# DesignArena says Claude models dethroned each other 40 times on its leaderboards

> Original title: Anthropic's biggest rival on DesignArena is Anthropic.

- Source: Design Arena
- Published: 2026-11-11T17:43:07.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/f8qp85sr2jnpkyldxm3sfiazu
- Original: https://x.com/DesignArena/status/2120573047703015825

## Summary

DesignArena reports that since July 2025, Claude models on its leaderboards have been dethroned 77 times, and in 40 of those the new leader was another Claude model. OpenAI's models took first place from Claude 16 times, Moonshot's 10 times, and other labs 11 times combined. By contrast, OpenAI and Google DeepMind models were usually dethroned by other labs' models, 20 of 28 and 21 of 29 times respectively.

## Post

Anthropic's biggest rival on DesignArena is Anthropic.

Since July 2025, @claudeai models on our leaderboards have been dethroned 77 times. In 40 of those, the new leader was another Claude, usually a newer one. OpenAI's models took 1st from Claude 16 times, Moonshot's 10 times, and every other lab's 11 times combined.

@OpenAI and @GoogleDeepMind are different. When one of their models was dethroned, it was usually by another lab's model: 20 of 28 times for OpenAI, and 21 of 29 for Google.

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