SEAL Showdown
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Users of Scale's Playground app chat with a model and sometimes compare its reply with a random opponent's reply. Scale ranks models with a Bradley-Terry model that controls for length and formatting. Rankings can be split by region, profession and age.
Votes come from contributors in more than 100 countries. On 2025-09-20 GPT-5 Chat ranked first, then Claude Opus 4.1. Scale withholds preference data for 60 days after collection.
- Level
- Everyday Most adults, without training
- Scored
- Ranked by votes People pick the better of two answers, as in an arena, and the votes are turned into ratings.
- Answers
- Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
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We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.
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Nemotron-Cascade 2 30B-A3B 82.9% - MultiChallenge In use Multi-turn conversations testing instruction retention, inference memory, versioned editing and self-coherence. Graded by LLM judge with rubrics. GPT-6.1 Sol 82%
- Multi-IF In use Models follow verifiable instructions over three-turn conversations in eight languages, extending IFEval. Scored by instruction accuracy at each turn. LFM3-1.7B 89.1%
- AdvancedIF In use Models respond to over 1,600 prompts with complex, multi-turn, and system-level instructions. A judge model checks each response against expert-written rubrics.
MAI-Thinking-1 85% - IFStruct In use Models generate JSON or YAML that must follow a requested schema and phrasing constraints, without constrained decoding. A response passes only if every structural constraint holds. LFM3-1.7B 93.7%