Country standings · France · published July 20, 2026
France on the LMArena category boards.
As of July 20, 2026, Mistral AI's Mistral Large 3 reaches rank 53 on the vision arena board, the strongest current standing for a France organization, according to LMArena.
Source: LMArena leaderboard dataset. Country attribution from the reviewed organization registry.1 organizations, 17 models on current boards. Current through July 20, 2026.
Category standings
Best France standing per LMArena board.
Each row is the highest-ranked France organization on one LMArena category board, with that board's publish date and how many top 25 slots France organizations hold.
| Board | Best rank | Organization | Model | LMArena rating | Top 25 slots | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vision arena | 53 | Mistral AI | Mistral Large 3 | 1225.4 | 0 | 2026-07-12 |
| Web development arena | 64 | Mistral AI | Mistral Large 3 | 1222.4 | 0 | 2026-05-04 |
| Math arena | 73 | Mistral AI | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 1432.6 | 0 | 2026-07-20 |
| text_style_control:instruction_following | 78 | Mistral AI | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 1421.1 | 0 | 2026-07-20 |
| Coding arena | 79 | Mistral AI | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 1479.1 | 0 | 2026-07-20 |
| text_style_control:multi_turn | 85 | Mistral AI | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 1431.8 | 0 | 2026-07-20 |
| Overall text arena | 85 | Mistral AI | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 1427.6 | 0 | 2026-07-20 |
| text_style_control:creative_writing | 88 | Mistral AI | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 1394.4 | 0 | 2026-07-20 |
| text_style_control:hard_prompts | 91 | Mistral AI | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 1445.4 | 0 | 2026-07-20 |
| text_style_control:longer_query | 96 | Mistral AI | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 1431.1 | 0 | 2026-07-20 |
Organizations
France organizations on the boards.
1 organizations registered to France appear on the current LMArena boards. Each row shows how many boards the organization reaches and its single best standing.
| Organization | Boards | Best standing (LMArena) | Model | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral AI | 10 | #53 Vision arena | Mistral Large 3 | 2026-07-12 |
Frontier models
Highest-ranked France models on current boards.
The 12 best-placed models attributed to France, ordered by their best board rank, out of17 distinct France models on the current boards.
| Model | Organization | Best board | Rank | LMArena rating | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 3 | Mistral AI | Vision arena | #53 | 1225.4 | 2026-07-12 |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | Mistral AI | Vision arena | #54 | 1221.8 | 2026-07-12 |
| Mistral Medium 2508 | Mistral AI | Vision arena | #77 | 1171.7 | 2026-07-12 |
| Mistral Medium 2505 | Mistral AI | Vision arena | #85 | 1157.4 | 2026-07-12 |
| Mistral Small 2506 | Mistral AI | Vision arena | #90 | 1142.3 | 2026-07-12 |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24b Instruct 2503 | Mistral AI | Vision arena | #92 | 1136.9 | 2026-07-12 |
| Magistral Medium 2506 | Mistral AI | Coding arena | #189 | 1387.1 | 2026-07-20 |
| Mistral Large 2407 | Mistral AI | text_style_control:creative_writing | #220 | 1287.1 | 2026-07-20 |
| Mistral Large 2411 | Mistral AI | text_style_control:instruction_following | #233 | 1294.5 | 2026-07-20 |
| Mistral Small 24b Instruct 2501 | Mistral AI | Math arena | #253 | 1261.6 | 2026-07-20 |
| Mistral Large 2402 | Mistral AI | Math arena | #265 | 1244.4 | 2026-07-20 |
| Mixtral 8x22b Instruct V0.1 | Mistral AI | Math arena | #272 | 1228.1 | 2026-07-20 |
Follow the evidence
Compare against the overall LMArena rankings, review thecountry attribution methodology, and see thefull country table. Standings mirror one named source and carry no Model Gauntlet composite score. Other country files: United States, China.
France questions
How many France organizations rank on the LMArena boards?
1 France organizations appear on the current LMArena category boards with 17 distinct models, drawn from 2 organizations registered to France. Figures are current through July 20, 2026, per LMArena.
Which France model ranks highest right now?
Mistral AI's Mistral Large 3 is the highest-ranked France model, at rank 53 on the LMArena vision arena board with a 1225.4 rating, published July 12, 2026, per LMArena.
How does Model Gauntlet decide a model belongs to France?
Model Gauntlet attributes a model to a country through its organization. Each organization carries reviewed headquarters country codes in the organization registry, and a model inherits the country codes of the organization that published it. Organizations based in more than one country are counted under each of their codes. This is organizational attribution. It is not a claim about where a model was trained or where its compute ran.
Is this a Model Gauntlet ranking of France?
No. These standings mirror the named LMArena category boards, published through July 20, 2026. Model Gauntlet runs no evaluation of its own and publishes no composite or consensus score.