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Chatbot Arena — AI Glossary

A crowdsourced benchmark where anonymous users compare two model responses and vote on preference, producing Elo-based rankings.

Overview

Chatbot Arena (LMSYS, 2023) has collected millions of human preference votes across 100+ models. Users interact with two anonymous models simultaneously and vote for the better response. Elo ratings derived from Bradley-Terry model. Considered the most reliable human preference ranking due to scale and natural query distribution.

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Last reviewed2026-06-24

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What is Chatbot Arena?

A crowdsourced benchmark where anonymous users compare two model responses and vote on preference, producing Elo-based rankings.

What concepts are related to Chatbot Arena?

Closely related concepts include alpacaeval, mt bench, lmsys.