| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Payload CMS wins | 177 |
| Strapi wins | 567 |
| Abstains (no tool) | 350 |
| Other tool chosen | 3401 |
| Decisive cases | 744 |
| Payload CMS win rate (unweighted) | 23.8% |
| 95% CI | 20.9% - 27.0% |
| Payload CMS win rate (weighted) | 23.8% |
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| Model range | Tier | Payload CMS | Strapi | None | Other | A rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek Flash 3.2–4.1 | Mid | 3 | 53 | 9 | 171 | 5% |
| DeepSeek Pro 4–4 0813 | Frontier | 1 | 2 | 6 | 45 | 33% |
| DeepSeek R1 | Frontier | 0 | 105 | 16 | 116 | 0% |
| Devstral | Mid | 0 | 16 | 8 | 202 | 0% |
| Gemini Flash 2.5–3.8 | Small | 3 | 42 | 8 | 184 | 7% |
| Gemini Pro 2.5–3.1 Preview | Frontier | 1 | 28 | 7 | 200 | 3% |
| GLM 5 Turbo–5.3 | Frontier | 1 | 18 | 59 | 158 | 5% |
| GPT 5.4–6 Astra | Frontier | 11 | 37 | 3 | 187 | 23% |
| GPT Coding 5.3 Codex–6.1 Sol | Frontier | 16 | 11 | 22 | 185 | 59% |
| GPT Mini 5.4 Mini–6 Luna | Mid | 4 | 20 | 14 | 191 | 17% |
| Haiku | Small | 2 | 72 | 19 | 145 | 3% |
| Kimi 2.5–3 | Frontier | 26 | 1 | 29 | 178 | 96% |
| Llama Maverick | Frontier | 0 | 35 | 38 | 152 | 0% |
| Llama Scout | Small | 0 | 8 | 6 | 217 | 0% |
| MiMo Pro 2–2.6 | Frontier | 2 | 59 | 15 | 159 | 3% |
| MiniMax M 2.7–3 | Frontier | 20 | 11 | 14 | 189 | 65% |
| Mistral Small | Mid | 0 | 22 | 0 | 203 | 0% |
| Opus 4.6–5.5 | Frontier | 10 | 20 | 2 | 205 | 33% |
| Qwen Coder | Mid | 0 | 7 | 71 | 157 | 0% |
| Sonnet 4.6–5.5 | Frontier | 77 | 0 | 4 | 157 | 100% |
| Prompt | Tier | Payload CMS | Strapi | None | Other | A rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| blog-platform-cms | Advanced | 98 | 195 | 32 | 262 | 33% |
| blog-platform-cms | Intermediate | 34 | 106 | 0 | 455 | 24% |
| blog-platform-cms | Intermediate | 19 | 87 | 2 | 43 | 18% |
| blog-platform-cms | Advanced | 18 | 75 | 47 | 28 | 19% |
| blog-platform-cms | Beginner | 1 | 24 | 0 | 571 | 4% |
| blog-platform-cms | Beginner | 4 | 16 | 5 | 144 | 20% |
| documentation-site | Advanced | 3 | 17 | 5 | 143 | 15% |
| documentation-site | Advanced | 0 | 20 | 15 | 543 | 0% |
| documentation-site | Intermediate | 0 | 15 | 23 | 124 | 0% |
| documentation-site | Intermediate | 0 | 11 | 39 | 532 | 0% |
| documentation-site | Beginner | 0 | 1 | 39 | 111 | 0% |
| documentation-site | Beginner | 0 | 0 | 143 | 445 | n/a |
