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Strategy & Hard Analysis

Pricing decisions, ICP definition, board-level analysis, expert-domain questions. The highest-stakes thinking you delegate.

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Strategy & Hard Analysis Leaderboard

Pricing decisions, ICP definition, board-level analysis, expert-domain questions. The highest-stakes thinking you delegate.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index + Arena Text (Expert/Hard) · Jul 27, 2026 ↗
  1. 1
    Claude Opus 5 (Max effort)
    AnthropicAA Intelligence Index 61
    #1
    Standing
  2. 2
    Claude Opus 5 (xHigh effort)
    AnthropicAA Intelligence Index 60
    #2
    Standing
  3. 3
    Claude Fable 5 (Max effort)
    AnthropicAA Intelligence 60 + Arena Text #1 and Expert #1
    #3
    Standing
  4. 4
    GPT-5.6 Sol (Max)
    OpenAIAA Intelligence Index 59
    #4
    Standing
  5. 5
    Claude Opus 5 (High effort)
    AnthropicAA Intelligence Index 59
    #5
    Standing

Operator take · Opus 5 took the top of the Intelligence Index this week, and the story is effort level as much as model: the same model ranks #1, #2, and #5 depending on how hard you let it think. For consequential analysis, turn effort up and accept the latency. The per-token premium is noise next to the cost of a wrong strategic call.

Updated daily from the linked public leaderboards; last capture Jul 27, 2026. Elo and win-rate figures are preference-based measures, not task-completion guarantees. Always validate the top pick on your own representative work before routing production volume to it.

How to Read These Rankings

Four rules before you switch models

  • Every ranking is task-specific. The #1 agent model is not the #1 writer, and neither is the right pick for 10,000 Clay rows.
  • Scores come from public leaderboards (Arena, Artificial Analysis) with capture dates shown. Preference Elo measures which output people like, not whether work gets completed.
  • Reasoning effort and harness matter: the same model at a different effort tier or in a different agent harness ranks differently.
  • Cheap plus fast beats frontier for volume work. Route by job, not by brand loyalty.

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