ASCIIBench: leaderboard

A/B voting platform for AI-generated ASCII art. Models compete head-to-head and are ranked by ELO rating. Tests creative visual generation constrained to text characters.

Metric: ELO Rating. Source: www.asciibench.com. Saturation forecast: Around April 2027. 23 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Opus 4.51727#83
2GPT-5.51699#31
3Claude Opus 4.71685#49
4Gemini 3 Pro (Preview)1663#66
5Claude Opus 4.11624#140
6Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)1608#82
7Claude Sonnet 4.51592#142
8Gemini 2.5 Pro1585#152
9GPT-5.21521#110
10GPT-5 Codex1490#127
11GPT-4o ChatGPT1439
12GLM-4.71405#192
13Grok 41349#181
14MiniMax-M2.11343#289
15Kimi K2.51340#144

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=asciibench · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.