Design Arena Benchmark Rankings

Returns ELO ratings from head-to-head arena battles on Design Arena. Filterable by arena (models/builders/agents) and category. Includes OpenRouter pricing per model. Authenticate with any valid OpenRouter API key. Rate-limited to 30 requests/minute per key and 500 requests/day per account.

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer
API key as bearer token in Authorization header

Query parameters

arenaenumOptionalDefaults to models

Arena to query. Defaults to models.

Allowed values:
categorystringOptional

Category within the arena (e.g. codecategories, uicomponent, gamedev, 3d, dataviz, image, video, svg). When omitted, returns all categories.

max_resultsintegerOptional1-100Defaults to 50

Max results to return: per category when no category filter is applied (1–100, default 50).

Response

Design Arena ELO rankings with pricing and attribution metadata.
datalist of objects
metaobject

Errors

400
Bad Request Error
401
Unauthorized Error
429
Too Many Requests Error
500
Internal Server Error