Design Arena blog · Jul 2026
Reports Kimi K3 ranking #1 on Design Arena’s single-shot Frontend Arena with Elo 1392 and discusses the jump in Moonshot’s design performance.
World's largest crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated design
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Design Arena is a San Francisco-based crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated design and related agentic building tasks. It shows model outputs side by side, collects blind user votes, and turns those votes into live leaderboards across website, image, video, slides, mobile, audio, and agent benchmarks.
Primary product
Crowdsourced benchmark platform and leaderboards for AI-generated design.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
2-10 employees
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI model evaluation / generative AI benchmarking
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
10 Lamont St, Billerica, Massachusetts 01821, US
Business model
crowdsourced benchmark platform
free public API and data access with attribution
private evaluation tooling / leaderboard access
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Dec 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Dec 2025
Jul 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Early-stage, mission-driven, in-person San Francisco team that emphasizes taste, live user feedback, speed, and shipping quickly.
Work style
Onsite
Visa sponsorship
Yes
Compensation
Public hiring copy says compensation is competitive salary plus meaningful equity; no public salary bands were found.
Benefits
competitive salary
meaningful equity
visa sponsorship
relocation assistance
Product & market
Pricing
Free data/API access with attribution; API access requires application/review.
Differentiators
- —blind side-by-side voting from real users
- —continuous ELO leaderboards
- —broad multimodal coverage across design and agentic tasks
- —millions of votes from 190+ countries
- —free data use for personal and commercial projects with attribution
Technology
Python
Jupyter Notebook
HTML/CSS/JavaScript
OpenAPI
OpenRouter
React Native
Expo
Vercel
Customers
AI model labs
AI model developers
software developers
enterprise customers
general users / voters
Competitors
LMArena (Chatbot Arena)
v0
Bolt
Lovable
other visual/model evaluation arenas
Scale & contact
Latest news
Design Arena blog · Jul 2026
Announces Inkling on Design Arena, describing it as the highest-ranking US-based open-weights model for agentic workloads and a top-6 lab in agentic performance.
Design Arena blog · Jul 2026
Says GPT-5.6 Sol ranked first overall on Web Design (Non-Agentic), 18 places above GPT-5.5, and details speed/price tradeoffs.
Design Arena blog · Jul 2026
Benchmarks Gemini Omni Flash first on Video Generation and highlights reliability, fidelity, and improved price/speed versus prior leaders.
Medium · Feb 2026
Announces Design Arena’s expansion from frontend-only evaluation to full-stack web app evaluation with real backends and persistent data.
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