Best national cuisines

We asked 12 models: The best national cuisines in the world. Each named its own top 10.

Agreement between models

76%

Same model, run twice

88%

Different picks

13

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#	Pick	Score	Listed by	Claude Opus 5.5	GPT-6.1 Sol	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Max	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Grok 4.7	Muse Wonder	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
1	Italian		12/12	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	3	1	1
2	Japanese		12/12	2	2	3	2	2	3	2	2	1	1	2	2
3	Mexican		12/12	6	3	2	5	3	4	6	3	3	7	6	3
4	Thai		12/12	7	6	4	3	6	1	5	4	6	5	7	5
5	French		12/12	4	7	6	4	5	7	3	6	7	2	3	6
6	Indian		12/12	5	4	5	7	4	5	7	5	5	6	5	4
7	Chinese		12/12	3	5	7	6	7	6	4	8	4	4	4	7
8	Spanish		9/12	9	10	8	9			8	7		8	8	10
9	Turkish		8/12	8	8	10	10	9	9		9	10
10	Vietnamese		7/12	10	9		8		8	10	10	8
11	Korean		7/12					10	10	9		9	9	10	8
12	Lebanese		4/12			9		8					10	9
13	Greek		1/12												9

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Opus 5.5

1. Italian
2. Japanese
3. Chinese
4. French
5. Indian
6. Mexican
7. Thai
8. Turkish
9. Spanish
10. Vietnamese

84% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

GPT-6.1 Sol

1. Italian
2. Japanese
3. Mexican
4. Indian
5. Chinese
6. Thai
7. French
8. Turkish
9. Vietnamese
10. Spanish

90% with consensus · 98% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

1. Italian
2. Mexican
3. Japanese
4. Thai
5. Indian
6. French
7. Chinese
8. Spanish
9. Lebanese
10. Turkish

90% with consensus · 99% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Max

1. Italian
2. Japanese
3. Thai
4. French
5. Mexican
6. Chinese
7. Indian
8. Vietnamese
9. Spanish
10. Turkish

90% with consensus · 79% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1. Italian
2. Japanese
3. Mexican
4. Indian
5. French
6. Thai
7. Chinese
8. Lebanese
9. Turkish
10. Korean

92% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

1. Thai
2. Italian
3. Japanese
4. Mexican
5. Indian
6. Chinese
7. French
8. Vietnamese
9. Turkish
10. Korean

68% with consensus · 84% self-consistent

Grok 4.7

1. Italian
2. Japanese
3. French
4. Chinese
5. Thai
6. Mexican
7. Indian
8. Spanish
9. Korean
10. Vietnamese

85% with consensus · 77% self-consistent

Muse Wonder

1. Italian
2. Japanese
3. Mexican
4. Thai
5. Indian
6. French
7. Spanish
8. Chinese
9. Turkish
10. Vietnamese

97% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Kimi K3

1. Japanese
2. Italian
3. Mexican
4. Chinese
5. Indian
6. Thai
7. French
8. Vietnamese
9. Korean
10. Turkish

73% with consensus · 80% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

1. Japanese
2. French
3. Italian
4. Chinese
5. Thai
6. Indian
7. Mexican
8. Spanish
9. Korean
10. Lebanese

63% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

1. Italian
2. Japanese
3. French
4. Chinese
5. Indian
6. Mexican
7. Thai
8. Spanish
9. Lebanese
10. Korean

83% with consensus · 80% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

1. Italian
2. Japanese
3. Mexican
4. Indian
5. Thai
6. French
7. Chinese
8. Korean
9. Greek
10. Spanish

92% with consensus · 96% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 52 (lightest) to 95 (darkest)

	Claude Opus 5.5	GPT-6.1 Sol	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Max	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Grok 4.7	Muse Wonder	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Opus 5.5		86	76	86	84	60	90	83	71	67	93	81
GPT-6.1 Sol	86		84	83	94	67	82	91	80	59	83	93
Gemini 4 Argon	76	84		80	86	69	76	91	68	54	77	87
Qwen 3.8 Max	86	83	80		83	70	89	87	68	64	85	83
DeepSeek V4 Pro	84	94	86	83		65	81	91	75	60	85	94
GLM-5.3	60	67	69	70	65		60	69	68	52	59	66
Grok 4.7	90	82	76	89	81	60		82	70	76	95	83
Muse Wonder	83	91	91	87	91	69	82		74	59	82	93
Kimi K3	71	80	68	68	75	68	70	74		78	71	76
MiniMax M3	67	59	54	64	60	52	76	59	78		74	60
Mistral Large 4	93	83	77	85	85	59	95	82	71	74		82
Nemotron 3 Ultra	81	93	87	83	94	66	83	93	76	60	82