DesignArena
AI-nativeEstablished LeaderWhat are you creating today?
designarena.ai Source★ 35MIT Discord RedditVideo & Audio / All-in-One AI Media Suites
- Monthly visits
- 949.5K
- Down13.2%MoMOct 2026
- Entry price
- Free
- No monthly subscription pricing
- Launched
- 16mo ago
- 2025-07-12 · Est.
Traffic & revenue
- Nov 2026$5MSelf-reported $60M/yr · monthly equiv.
Revenue evidence
Publicly disclosed & verified revenue figures, sorted by date“Design Arena has grown to more than 7 million users across 192 countries, and @Intelligence_ai reached a $60 million annualized run rate in about a year.”
Marketing moves
Launches, search & content, referrals, promotionsDesignArena ranks open-weight Inkling 2 Small #1 among open-weight modelsReferrals & Backlinks
DesignArena reported that Inkling 2 Small by Thinking Machines is now open-weight and ranked #1 among open-weight models on Overall HTML with an Elo of 1384, up 8 Elo points since its initial release. It holds a 32-point lead over Kimi K3 and remains the only American model ranked #1 among open-weight models on DesignArena.
Nov 12 · 3d agoX Post
At the time: 949.5K visits/mo11 concurrent movesDesignArena lists ERNIE 5.5 Flash PreviewReferrals & Backlinks
DesignArena announced that ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview by Baidu is now available on its platform. The model features 280B total parameters with 14B active, a 1M-token context window, and open weights scheduled by November 25.
Nov 12 · 3d agoX Post
At the time: 949.5K visits/mo11 concurrent movesDesignArena shares LifeArena AI assistant benchmark resultsReferrals & Backlinks
DesignArena evaluated multiple AI assistants on real-world personal tasks using LifeArena, ranking Meta's Muse first, followed by OpenAI's Dots, Instinct, Grok Bot, and Google's Gemini.
Nov 6 · 9d agoX Post
At the time: 949.5K visits/mo11 concurrent movesDesignArena ranks Inkling 2 Small 4th overallReferrals & Backlinks
DesignArena reports that Inkling 2 Small by Thinking Machines takes 4th place overall on DesignArena and 1st among open-weights models with an Elo of 1376. It also says the model is priced at $0.30/$1.00 per 1M input/output tokens, is 15× cheaper on output than Kimi K3, places 1st on General Purpose and Landing Page prompts, and that model weights are to be released soon. The quoted Thinking Machines post says Inkling 2 Small scores 31 on the AA Intelligence Index and is available for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker, with a full weight release planned soon.
Nov 5 · 10d agoX Post
At the time: 949.5K visits/mo11 concurrent movesDesignArena ranks Ling-3.2-flash #10 on Image to Frontend ArenaReferrals & Backlinks
DesignArena reports that Ling-3.2-flash by Ant Ling placed #10 on its Image to Frontend Arena with an Elo of 1238. It also cites a new preference-versus-price Pareto frontier at $0.30 input / $0.90 output per 1M tokens, and says the model most often wins on Portfolio and Corporate builds at about 63% and 60% of tournaments.
Nov 5 · 10d agoX Post
At the time: 949.5K visits/mo11 concurrent moves
Third-party reviews & case dossiers
Acquisition breakdowns, engineer reviews & open-source metrics- Post excerpt:
- I’ve been using AI to generate some repetitive frontend (guilty), and while most outputs felt vibe-coded, some results were surprisingly good. So I cleaned it up and made a ranking game out of it with friends, and you can check it out here: https://www.designarena.ai/vote /vote: Your prompt will be answered by four random, anonymous models. You pick the one
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN! We built Agent Runner, a model-agnostic, open-source agent harness that executes the same prompt against two anonymized coding agents in parallel sandboxes. Each agent can make tool calls, edit multiple files, and self-correct through iterative reasoning. You pick the better result - this becomes the ground truth for the leaderboard. Why we built it
Open Source & Self-Hosting
- GitHub Stars
- ★ 35
- Forks
- —
- License
- MIT
- Primary language
- Python
Traffic sources
Traffic breakdown
Channels
- Direct59%
- Organic Search25%
- Referrals7%
- AI Assistants4%
- Other4%
Countries
- India24%
- United States12%
- Russia7%
- Pakistan6%
- Algeria5%
Search
Domain authority —Domain registered 2025-05-22
| Keyword | Monthly volume |
|---|---|
| arena ai | 680.5K |
| design arena | 38.4K |
| design arena ai | 6,960 |
| designarena | 4,950 |
| arena design | 3,330 |
Traffic data: Vaneform
Pricing
Pricing page not identified yet, or no public pricing listed.
Pages & changes
Key pages
Weekly snapshotsOfficial blog & changelog
Recent articles & product updatesHow OpenAI’s Sol Finally Learned Design Taste
We benchmarked GPT-5.6 Sol on Design Arena’s Web Design (Non-Agentic) Arena, and we were surprised to find that it ranks 1st overall. This is 18 places higher than its predecessor GPT-5.5, and is the first time an OpenAI model has placed fi
Thinking Machines’ Open Weights Model is Now on Design Arena
We are excited to introduce Inkling, Thinking Machines' first model - and it’s open weights. With this release, Thinking Machines establishes itself as a top 6 lab in agentic workloads. Inkling is the top US-based open weights model, repres
Kimi K3’s Design Secret may be in its Thinking Traces
Kimi K3, Moonshot AI’s latest open-weight <sup>1</sup> model, ranks 1st on our single-shot Frontend Arena with an Elo of 1392. This is 10 positions higher than Kimi K2.6 and 16 positions higher than Kimi K2.7 Code, marking the largest jump
Audio Realism Benchmark: Measuring Realism in Audio Models
Today we’re introducing Audio Realism Bench, our benchmark for AI conversational realism. Modern TTS has saturated the traditional 1–5 mean opinion score (MOS) and while it is able to capture intelligibility and naturalness, it no longer me
Changes
Design
Minimal Monochrome (Light canvas, airy density) featuring centered headline + input layout and interactive hero demo / tool visuals.
First-screen preview · click to zoom
First-screen pitch & conversion flow
“What are you creating today?”
Centered Headline + Input hero structure paired with direct input / instant try CTA and user count, rating, or key metrics.
Conversion path: Centered Headline + Input + Interactive Hero Demo / Tool → Direct Input / Instant Try · Trust bar: User Count, Rating, or Key Metrics
- Brand Manifesto & Curiosity
- Centered Prompt / Input
- Interactive Hero Tool
- Custom Illustration
Palette · click to copy
- Typography
- 8.0
- Color & Contrast
- 8.0
- Layout & Spacing
- 8.0
- Craft & Polish
- 8.0
- Distinctiveness
- 7.0
Structure
- Fonts
- concrette / Inter
- Hero layout
- Centered Headline + Input
- Primary visual
- Interactive Hero Demo / Tool
- Conversion CTA
- Direct Input / Instant Try
- Social proof
- User Count, Rating, or Key Metrics
- Navigation
- Full-Width Top Bar
- Theme & density
- Light · Airy
- Corners & depth
- Medium Radius · Hairline borders
Preview full AI design brief (includes :root CSS variables & layout rules)Style tokens only; never copy brand names, logos, copy, or images
# Design Brief: Minimal Monochrome (with Editorial)
Monochrome palette with a single accent color, hairline dividers, and generous whitespace.
## Design Tokens
```css
:root {
--background: #f7f6f5;
--surface: #ebeae9;
--foreground: #292c33;
--muted-foreground: #4c525f;
--accent: #487265;
--radius: 8px;
--font-heading: "concrette", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
--font-body: "Inter", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
}
```
Color area ratio: Background #F7F6F5 (~74%) · Surface #EBEAE9 (~15%) · Text #292C33 (~5%) · Muted Text #4C525F (~4%) · Accent #487265 (~2%). Background and surface dominate the canvas; reserve the accent color for primary buttons and active states.
## Layout & Conversion Structure
- Hero layout: Centered Headline + Input
- Navigation: Full-Width Top Bar
- Theme & density: Light · Airy
- Border radius & elevation: Medium Radius; no drop shadows—separate layers with hairline borders and whitespace
- Primary visual medium: Interactive Hero Demo / Tool
- Conversion CTA: Direct Input / Instant Try · Trust bar uses User Count, Rating, or Key Metrics
- Headline hook: Brand Manifesto & Curiosity
- Hero components: Centered Prompt / Input, Interactive Hero Tool, Custom Illustration
- Spatial layout notes: Centered Headline + Input hero structure paired with direct input / instant try CTA and user count, rating, or key metrics.
- Visual summary: Minimal Monochrome (Light canvas, airy density) featuring centered headline + input layout and interactive hero demo / tool visuals.
## Avoid
- Multi-stop neon gradients
- Heavy drop shadows
- More than one competing accent color
Implement the UI following the design tokens and layout specifications above: use only these color variables, and reserve the accent color strictly for primary actions and active states. Adopt only this visual style—never copy any reference product’s brand name, logo, copy, or imagery.
Questions & evidence
- How much website traffic does DesignArena get?
- Vaneform estimates 949.5K website visits in 2026-10. Visits can include repeat visits; this estimate measures web traffic separately from paying customers or revenue.Source
- What is DesignArena and what platforms does it support?
- DesignArena is catalogued under All-in-One AI Media Suites: What are you creating today?. Supported platforms: Web.
- Is DesignArena open source?
- DesignArena has a public repository (https://github.com/Design-Arena/agent-runner) under the MIT license, recording 35 GitHub stars.Source
- What is DesignArena's publicly disclosed revenue?
- X @ycombinator records a founder-reported figure of $60M /yr stated on 2026-11-13.Source
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