LLMs ranked by Lichess Classical rating, estimated from real results using Glicko-2 and engine anchors
| # | Player | Rating ▼ | FIDE Est. | RD | 95% CI | Games | W-L-D | Legal% | Released | $/Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eubos * | 2211 | ~2081 | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0-0-0 | 100.0% | - | - |
| 2 | gemini-3.1-pro-preview (high) 👑 | 2068 | ~1877 | 85 | 1901 - 2236 | 18 | 11-6-1 | 99.7% | 02/26 | $3.9501 |
| 3 | gemini-3.1-pro-preview (medium) | 2011 | ~1796 | 61 | 1892 - 2130 | 53 | 36-15-2 | 99.5% | 02/26 | $1.2532 |
| 4 | gemini-3.5-flash (medium) | 1951 | ~1729 | 111 | 1734 - 2169 | 7 | 4-3-0 | 99.6% | 05/26 | $0.3834 |
| 5 | gemini-3.6-flash (medium) | 1881 | ~1663 | 80 | 1725 - 2037 | 30 | 15-12-3 | 99.7% | 07/26 | $0.3535 |
| 6 | maia-1900 * | 1816 | ~1560 | N/A | N/A | 3 | 1-2-0 | 100.0% | - | - |
| 7 | gemini-3-pro-preview (high) | 1796 | ~1541 | 81 | 1637 - 1954 | 51 | 34-17-0 | 99.7% | 11/25 | $2.1814 |
| 8 | survival-bot | 1659 | N/A | 45 | 1571 - 1748 | 114 | 39-41-34 | 100.0% | - | - |
| 9 | gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct 🥇 | 1641 | N/A | 52 | 1538 - 1743 | 118 | 56-23-39 | 99.6% | 09/23 | $0.0361 |
| 10 | maia-1100 * | 1628 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0-0-0 | 100.0% | - | - |
| 11 | gemini-3-flash-preview (medium) | 1621 | N/A | 89 | 1447 - 1795 | 27 | 22-5-0 | 97.9% | 12/25 | $1.2733 |
| 12 | gemini-3-flash-preview (high) | 1616 | N/A | 126 | 1369 - 1864 | 18 | 14-4-0 | 98.3% | 12/25 | $2.4565 |
| 13 | gpt-5.6-sol (high) | 1505 | N/A | 85 | 1339 - 1670 | 22 | 12-6-4 | 98.7% | 07/26 | $1.2644 |
| 14 | gpt-5.6-luna (xhigh) | 1446 | N/A | 100 | 1251 - 1641 | 16 | 11-4-1 | 98.5% | 07/26 | $0.9248 |
| 15 | gpt-5.6-sol (xhigh) | 1423 | N/A | 92 | 1242 - 1603 | 17 | 8-6-3 | 99.0% | 07/26 | $1.5602 |
| 16 | o3 | 1358 | N/A | 126 | 1111 - 1606 | 27 | 17-9-1 | 99.2% | 04/25 | $1.3817 |
| 17 | grok-4.1-fast | 1356 | N/A | 56 | 1246 - 1466 | 65 | 29-30-6 | 98.9% | 11/25 | $0.3571 |
| 18 | gpt-5.6-sol (medium) | 1325 | N/A | 97 | 1136 - 1514 | 18 | 10-5-3 | 99.1% | 07/26 | $0.8651 |
| 19 | deepseek-v4-flash-0731 (max) | 1279 | N/A | 112 | 1059 - 1499 | 7 | 5-2-0 | 99.6% | - | - |
| 20 | claude-3.7-sonnet (thinking) | 1198 | N/A | 136 | 932 - 1464 | 6 | 0-6-0 | 85.7% | 02/25 | $0.4833 |
| 21 | claude-sonnet-4.5 (thinking) | 1193 | N/A | 137 | 924 - 1462 | 6 | 0-6-0 | 92.2% | 09/25 | $2.8603 |
| 22 | claude-sonnet-4 (thinking) | 1193 | N/A | 137 | 924 - 1462 | 6 | 0-6-0 | 91.7% | 05/25 | $1.2309 |
| 23 | gpt-5.6-sol (low) | 1160 | N/A | 98 | 968 - 1351 | 18 | 9-6-3 | 98.9% | 07/26 | $0.4151 |
| 24 | gpt-5.1 (high) | 1159 | N/A | 92 | 978 - 1340 | 39 | 16-18-5 | 99.7% | 11/25 | $3.5198 |
| 25 | deepseek-v4-flash-0731 (high) | 1137 | N/A | 116 | 909 - 1364 | 6 | 2-4-0 | 99.5% | - | - |
| 26 | grok-4-fast | 1127 | N/A | 73 | 984 - 1270 | 52 | 24-23-5 | 98.0% | 09/25 | $0.3066 |
| 27 | gpt-5.6-terra (xhigh) | 1061 | N/A | 97 | 871 - 1251 | 18 | 7-5-6 | 98.3% | 07/26 | $0.7643 |
| 28 | claude-haiku-4.5 (thinking) | 1035 | N/A | 165 | 712 - 1358 | 5 | 2-3-0 | 90.2% | 10/25 | $2.8806 |
| 29 | gpt-5.2 (high) | 921 | N/A | 77 | 771 - 1071 | 62 | 44-13-5 | 99.7% | 12/25 | $2.3931 |
| 30 | deepseek-v4-flash (max) | 909 | N/A | 116 | 682 - 1136 | 15 | 12-2-1 | 97.0% | 04/26 | $0.2658 |
| 31 | gpt-5.4 (high) | 900 | N/A | 84 | 735 - 1064 | 30 | 13-11-6 | 99.7% | 03/26 | $0.8155 |
| 32 | deepseek-r1 | 789 | N/A | 334 | 135 - 1444 | 5 | 0-5-0 | 80.0% | 01/25 | $0.0816 |
| 33 | gpt-5.2-chat | 694 | N/A | 61 | 575 - 812 | 75 | 29-34-12 | 97.3% | 12/25 | $0.5092 |
| 34 | gpt-5.5 (xhigh) | 671 | N/A | 81 | 512 - 829 | 55 | 24-29-2 | 96.8% | 04/26 | $4.1497 |
| 35 | gpt-5.2 (no thinking) | 645 | N/A | 61 | 526 - 764 | 68 | 35-24-9 | 97.5% | 12/25 | $0.8571 |
| 36 | gpt-5.6-terra (medium) | 636 | N/A | 110 | 421 - 850 | 21 | 11-6-4 | 98.3% | 07/26 | $0.4020 |
| 37 | gpt-5 (medium) | 632 | N/A | 93 | 451 - 813 | 22 | 17-4-1 | 100.0% | 08/25 | $2.1508 |
| 38 | gpt-oss-120b (high) | 631 | N/A | 61 | 512 - 750 | 52 | 26-18-8 | 99.2% | 08/25 | $0.0875 |
| 39 | gpt-5.6-luna (high) | 627 | N/A | 100 | 431 - 822 | 14 | 8-5-1 | 98.4% | 07/26 | $0.4377 |
| 40 | gemini-3-flash-preview (low) | 606 | N/A | 60 | 488 - 723 | 36 | 26-10-0 | 94.6% | 12/25 | $0.1264 |
| 41 | gemini-3-pro-preview (medium) | 603 | N/A | 71 | 464 - 742 | 34 | 25-9-0 | 95.2% | 11/25 | $0.2616 |
| 42 | gpt-5.6-terra (low) | 575 | N/A | 98 | 383 - 767 | 16 | 5-9-2 | 96.1% | 07/26 | $0.1734 |
| 43 | deepseek-v3.2 (thinking) | 544 | N/A | 141 | 267 - 821 | 8 | 1-7-0 | 89.7% | 12/25 | $0.3370 |
| 44 | gpt-5.6-terra (high) | 538 | N/A | 107 | 328 - 749 | 17 | 7-7-3 | 98.1% | 07/26 | $0.4509 |
| 45 | gpt-oss-120b (medium) | 522 | N/A | 60 | 404 - 641 | 82 | 32-41-9 | 98.6% | 08/25 | $0.0217 |
| 46 | gpt-5.1-chat | 521 | N/A | 45 | 433 - 609 | 295 | 233-54-8 | 97.2% | 11/25 | $0.1484 |
| 47 | claude-opus-4.5 (high) | 507 | N/A | 106 | 299 - 714 | 17 | 6-11-0 | 96.2% | 11/25 | $5.8589 |
| 48 | gpt-5.1 (no thinking) | 496 | N/A | 60 | 379 - 613 | 59 | 28-29-2 | 96.1% | 11/25 | $0.1946 |
| 49 | gpt-5.5 (low) | 495 | N/A | 51 | 394 - 595 | 47 | 26-14-7 | 98.0% | 04/26 | $0.5577 |
| 50 | gpt-5.6-luna (low) | 470 | N/A | 99 | 277 - 663 | 13 | 4-9-0 | 94.6% | 07/26 | $0.0860 |
| 51 | gpt-5.5 (medium) | 457 | N/A | 55 | 350 - 564 | 41 | 17-16-8 | 97.6% | 04/26 | $0.8766 |
| 52 | gpt-5.6-luna (medium) | 448 | N/A | 97 | 258 - 637 | 17 | 4-12-1 | 93.8% | 07/26 | $0.1427 |
| 53 | gemini-2.5-flash (no thinking) | 428 | N/A | 45 | 339 - 516 | 287 | 193-92-2 | 95.3% | 06/25 | $0.0024 |
| 54 | claude-opus-4.6 (medium) | 411 | N/A | 136 | 144 - 677 | 5 | 4-1-0 | 95.7% | 02/26 | $7.1909 |
| 55 | random-bot * | 400 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1 | 0-1-0 | 100.0% | - | - |
| 56 | gpt-5.5 (high) | 399 | N/A | 57 | 287 - 511 | 38 | 12-19-7 | 97.2% | 04/26 | $1.1291 |
| 57 | claude-opus-4.1 (no thinking) | 366 | N/A | 45 | 278 - 454 | 202 | 147-55-0 | 95.0% | 08/25 | $0.1578 |
| 58 | claude-opus-4 (no thinking) | 360 | N/A | 45 | 272 - 448 | 202 | 146-54-2 | 95.2% | 05/25 | $0.1890 |
| 59 | gemini-3-flash-preview (minimal) | 358 | N/A | 81 | 200 - 516 | 20 | 8-12-0 | 92.4% | 12/25 | $0.0163 |
| 60 | gemini-2.0-flash-001 | 356 | N/A | 45 | 268 - 444 | 295 | 182-112-1 | 93.9% | 02/25 | $0.0007 |
| 61 | gemini-2.5-pro (default) | 340 | N/A | 66 | 211 - 470 | 48 | 18-30-0 | 92.8% | 06/25 | $0.7017 |
| 62 | gpt-5-chat | 316 | N/A | 45 | 228 - 405 | 361 | 233-128-0 | 92.9% | 08/25 | $0.0081 |
| 63 | gpt-5.4 (no thinking) | 279 | N/A | 150 | -16 - 574 | 8 | 4-4-0 | 93.2% | 03/26 | $0.0195 |
| 64 | gpt-5 (no thinking) | 272 | N/A | 61 | 153 - 391 | 54 | 19-35-0 | 91.2% | 08/25 | $0.0196 |
| 65 | gpt-5 (minimal) | 259 | N/A | 45 | 170 - 347 | 214 | 138-76-0 | 91.9% | 08/25 | $0.0075 |
| 66 | o1 | 249 | N/A | 56 | 139 - 359 | 83 | 55-28-0 | 92.9% | 12/24 | $1.7095 |
| 67 | claude-opus-4.5 (no thinking) | 231 | N/A | 95 | 45 - 418 | 30 | 6-24-0 | 90.1% | 11/25 | $0.5156 |
| 68 | gemma-4-31b-it (high) | 224 | N/A | 147 | -65 - 513 | 2 | 0-2-0 | 91.1% | 04/26 | $0.0276 |
| 69 | gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview | 202 | N/A | 85 | 36 - 368 | 20 | 4-16-0 | 88.1% | 03/26 | $0.0082 |
| 70 | gpt-oss-120b (low) | 198 | N/A | 64 | 73 - 324 | 39 | 8-30-1 | 95.3% | - | $0.0117 |
| 71 | claude-sonnet-4.5 (no thinking) | 189 | N/A | 45 | 101 - 277 | 201 | 114-87-0 | 91.0% | 09/25 | $0.0256 |
| 72 | gpt-4.1 (minimal) | 173 | N/A | 45 | 85 - 261 | 204 | 121-83-0 | 89.8% | 04/25 | $0.0100 |
| 73 | gpt-5.5 (no thinking) | 119 | N/A | 100 | -77 - 315 | 20 | 2-17-1 | 93.1% | 04/26 | $0.0637 |
| 74 | claude-sonnet-4 (no thinking) | 100 | N/A | 45 | 12 - 189 | 199 | 101-98-0 | 88.4% | 05/25 | $0.0165 |
| 75 | grok-3-mini | 93 | N/A | 56 | -16 - 203 | 96 | 21-75-0 | 88.8% | 06/25 | $0.0421 |
| 76 | glm-4.6 (thinking) | 83 | N/A | 67 | -48 - 214 | 45 | 9-36-0 | 81.5% | 09/25 | $0.0317 |
| 77 | qwen3-max | 71 | N/A | 46 | -20 - 161 | 101 | 28-73-0 | 82.1% | 09/25 | $0.0067 |
| 78 | claude-3.5-sonnet | 59 | N/A | 45 | -30 - 147 | 195 | 89-106-0 | 87.1% | 06/24 | $0.0526 |
| 79 | grok-3 | 59 | N/A | 45 | -29 - 148 | 203 | 88-115-0 | 86.1% | 02/25 | $0.0156 |
| 80 | gpt-4 | 58 | N/A | 45 | -30 - 146 | 204 | 96-108-0 | 86.9% | 03/23 | $0.1509 |
| 81 | kimi-k2.5 (no thinking) | 40 | N/A | 137 | -228 - 308 | 11 | 1-10-0 | 80.4% | 01/26 | $0.0021 |
| 82 | claude-opus-4.6 (no thinking) | 32 | N/A | 148 | -259 - 323 | 9 | 0-9-0 | 93.4% | 02/26 | $0.4140 |
| 83 | claude-3.7-sonnet (no thinking) | 16 | N/A | 45 | -72 - 105 | 208 | 87-121-0 | 83.5% | 02/25 | $0.0187 |
| 84 | claude-3-opus | 15 | N/A | 45 | -74 - 103 | 193 | 75-118-0 | 85.4% | 03/24 | - |
| 85 | gpt-4o-2024-11-20 | 11 | N/A | 45 | -77 - 99 | 210 | 90-120-0 | 83.6% | 11/24 | $0.0088 |
| 86 | mimo-v2-flash (medium) | 1 | N/A | 126 | -246 - 248 | 17 | 3-12-2 | 95.3% | 02/26 | $0.0888 |
| 87 | deepseek-v4-pro (no thinking) | -23 | N/A | 137 | -291 - 245 | 3 | 1-2-0 | 77.3% | 04/26 | $0.0009 |
| 88 | kimi-k2 | -49 | N/A | 45 | -137 - 40 | 289 | 109-180-0 | 81.5% | 07/25 | $0.0029 |
| 89 | deepseek-chat-v3-0324 | -51 | N/A | 45 | -139 - 37 | 273 | 95-178-0 | 80.6% | 03/25 | $0.0009 |
| 90 | gemma-4-31b-it (no thinking) | -51 | N/A | 130 | -305 - 203 | 4 | 0-4-0 | 72.4% | 04/26 | $0.0004 |
| 91 | deepseek-v3.2 (no thinking) | -58 | N/A | 72 | -199 - 84 | 68 | 7-61-0 | 72.5% | 12/25 | $0.0017 |
| 92 | deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b | -73 | N/A | 76 | -223 - 77 | 35 | 11-24-0 | 71.6% | 01/25 | $0.0054 |
| 93 | gpt-4-turbo | -77 | N/A | 45 | -165 - 12 | 199 | 65-134-0 | 81.5% | 04/24 | $0.0550 |
| 94 | llama-4-maverick | -79 | N/A | 45 | -167 - 10 | 392 | 111-281-0 | 80.9% | 04/25 | $0.0018 |
| 95 | kimi-k2-0905 | -85 | N/A | 45 | -174 - 3 | 277 | 85-192-0 | 78.2% | 09/25 | $0.0015 |
| 96 | kat-coder-pro | -91 | N/A | 76 | -239 - 58 | 26 | 6-20-0 | 83.5% | 11/25 | - |
| 97 | deepseek-v3.2-exp (no thinking) | -113 | N/A | 45 | -201 - -25 | 226 | 69-157-0 | 76.2% | 09/25 | $0.0010 |
| 98 | gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 | -127 | N/A | 45 | -215 - -39 | 259 | 72-187-0 | 75.6% | 06/23 | $0.0052 |
| 99 | deepseek-v3.1-terminus (no thinking) | -134 | N/A | 45 | -222 - -46 | 136 | 66-70-0 | 80.3% | 09/25 | $0.0004 |
| 100 | qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 | -172 | N/A | 66 | -302 - -42 | 50 | 7-43-0 | 66.0% | 07/25 | $0.0002 |
| 101 | claude-haiku-4.5 (no thinking) | -173 | N/A | 45 | -261 - -85 | 90 | 26-64-0 | 80.1% | 10/25 | $0.0027 |
| 102 | mistral-medium-3 | -188 | N/A | 45 | -276 - -99 | 279 | 81-198-0 | 73.8% | 05/25 | $0.0014 |
| 103 | deepseek-v4-flash-0731 (no thinking) | -189 | N/A | 164 | -510 - 132 | 1 | 0-1-0 | 66.7% | - | - |
| 104 | glm-4.6 (no thinking) | -233 | N/A | 45 | -322 - -145 | 269 | 65-204-0 | 75.6% | 09/25 | $0.0108 |
| 105 | deepseek-chat-v3.1 (no thinking) | -245 | N/A | 45 | -333 - -157 | 282 | 70-212-0 | 73.5% | 08/25 | $0.0008 |
| 106 | gpt-5-mini (minimal) | -265 | N/A | 45 | -353 - -176 | 243 | 44-199-0 | 63.7% | 08/25 | $0.0010 |
| 107 | mimo-v2-flash (no thinking) | -443 | N/A | 82 | -604 - -282 | 26 | 3-23-0 | 48.9% | 02/26 | $0.0001 |
| 108 | llama-3.3-70b-instruct | -455 | N/A | 45 | -544 - -367 | 369 | 37-332-0 | 53.8% | 12/24 | $0.0002 |
| 109 | gpt-3.5-turbo | -500 | N/A | 45 | -588 - -412 | 299 | 15-284-0 | 47.8% | 11/22 | $0.0013 |
👑 = Top-rated LLM
🥇 = Top-rated non-reasoning LLM
* = Anchor player (fixed rating, used for calibration)
Greyed rows = Rating still preliminary (needs more games)
FIDE Est. = Estimated FIDE rating based on ChessGoals.com survey data
RD = Rating Deviation (uncertainty in rating)
95% CI = 95% Confidence Interval
Legal% = Percentage of moves that were legal on first attempt
$/Game = Average cost per game based on provider pricing; ~ marks an estimate