Kaggle

Google's platform for crowdsourced AI evaluation, with benchmarks, competitions, and Arenas where you vote on which model made the better output.

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About Kaggle

Kaggle, at kaggle.com, describes itself as the leading platform for independent, crowdsourced AI evaluation. It runs competitions, benchmarks and hackathons, and hosts public models, datasets and notebooks. Kaggle is owned by Google.

Kaggle Arenas, launched in November 2026, are head-to-head matchups between AI models. Each matchup shows two anonymous outputs for the same prompt, side by side, whether that's a video, a web page, an image or text. You vote A is better, B is better, Both are good or Both are bad, and the votes update the leaderboard.

The Arenas page listed 15 arenas when checked on November 13, 2026, filtered by Video, Image, Web page and Text. HeyGen's Code2Video Arena tests models on prompt adherence when generating HyperFrames code. MineBench Arena covers 3D Minecraft voxel generation across 27 prompts. Kaggle's own arenas include Pelican Arena (an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle), Chart Arena (a small dataset and a brief turned into one self-contained SVG chart), Floorplan Arena (models furnish hand-drawn room sketches) and Landing Page Arena (a one-page website for a small business from a client brief), along with ASCII, SVG, Joke, ELI5, Opening Lines, Corp Speak, Landmark, Explode and Sort Viz arenas. Several arenas state a pass rule an output has to meet before people rate it.

Each arena card shows the top-ranked model, its score, the output type and the number of votes so far.

Features

Arenas show two anonymous outputs for the same prompt, side by side
Vote A is better, B is better, Both are good or Both are bad
Votes update each arena's leaderboard
Arenas for video, image, web page and text output
Arenas published by Kaggle and by outside teams such as HeyGen and MineBench
Benchmarks from labs, researchers and companies, with model rankings
Competitions and hackathons with prizes
Public models, datasets and notebooks

FAQs

Common questions about Kaggle

What is Kaggle?

Kaggle describes itself as the leading platform for independent, crowdsourced AI evaluation. It runs competitions, benchmarks and hackathons, and hosts public models, datasets and notebooks. It is owned by Google.

What are Kaggle Arenas?

Head-to-head matchups between AI models. You see two anonymous outputs for the same prompt, side by side, and vote for the better one. The votes update the leaderboard.

How do I vote in an arena?

Each matchup has four choices, A is better, B is better, Both are good and Both are bad. The outputs are anonymous, so you judge the result and not the model name.

Which arenas are there?

The Arenas page listed 15 when checked on November 13, 2026, across video, image, web page and text. They include Code2Video Arena from HeyGen, MineBench Arena, and Kaggle's Pelican, Chart, Floorplan, Landing Page, ASCII, SVG, Joke and ELI5 arenas.

How is an arena different from a benchmark?

Kaggle's framing is that benchmarks tell you how models score, and Arenas let you judge the outputs yourself. In an arena, people's votes set the rankings.