Most influential philosophers

We asked 10 models: The most influential philosophers in history. Each named its own top 10.

Agreement between models

75%

Same model, run twice

86%

Different picks

14

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 Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
1	Aristotle		10/10	1	2	1	1	2	1	2	3	1	1
2	Plato		10/10	2	1	2	2	1	2	1	1	2	2
3	Immanuel Kant		10/10	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	4	3	3
4	Confucius		10/10	6	3	3	7	6	5	4	9	4	4
5	René Descartes		10/10	5	6	6	4	4	6	5	6	6	5
6	Friedrich Nietzsche		10/10	8	10	9	8	7	4	6	7	7	7
7	Socrates		7/10	4	5	5			8	10	2	8
8	John Locke		8/10	9	8	8	5			8	8	5	9
9	Karl Marx		10/10	7	7	7	9	10	9	9	5	9	10
10	David Hume		7/10				6	5	7	7	10	10	6
11	Thomas Aquinas		5/10	10		10		8	10				8
12	Buddha		1/10		9
13	Ludwig Wittgenstein		1/10					9
14	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz		1/10				10

Every ballot

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

Claude Haiku 5.5

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Socrates
5. René Descartes
6. Confucius
7. Karl Marx
8. Friedrich Nietzsche
9. John Locke
10. Thomas Aquinas

91% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Confucius
4. Immanuel Kant
5. Socrates
6. René Descartes
7. Karl Marx
8. John Locke
9. Buddha
10. Friedrich Nietzsche

74% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Confucius
4. Immanuel Kant
5. Socrates
6. René Descartes
7. Karl Marx
8. John Locke
9. Friedrich Nietzsche
10. Thomas Aquinas

90% with consensus · 98% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Immanuel Kant
4. René Descartes
5. John Locke
6. David Hume
7. Confucius
8. Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Karl Marx
10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

88% with consensus · 91% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Immanuel Kant
4. René Descartes
5. David Hume
6. Confucius
7. Friedrich Nietzsche
8. Thomas Aquinas
9. Ludwig Wittgenstein
10. Karl Marx

72% with consensus · 81% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Friedrich Nietzsche
5. Confucius
6. René Descartes
7. David Hume
8. Socrates
9. Karl Marx
10. Thomas Aquinas

92% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Kimi K3

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Confucius
5. René Descartes
6. Friedrich Nietzsche
7. David Hume
8. John Locke
9. Karl Marx
10. Socrates

82% with consensus · 88% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

1. Plato
2. Socrates
3. Aristotle
4. Immanuel Kant
5. Karl Marx
6. René Descartes
7. Friedrich Nietzsche
8. John Locke
9. Confucius
10. David Hume

62% with consensus · 73% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Confucius
5. John Locke
6. René Descartes
7. Friedrich Nietzsche
8. Socrates
9. Karl Marx
10. David Hume

95% with consensus · 61% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Immanuel Kant
4. Confucius
5. René Descartes
6. David Hume
7. Friedrich Nietzsche
8. Thomas Aquinas
9. John Locke
10. Karl Marx

93% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 57 (lightest) to 91 (darkest)

	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5		73	90	86	71	87	73	67	88	87
GPT-6 Luna	73		83	64	78	67	86	79	72	69
Gemini 4 Argon	90	83		80	64	84	72	65	89	85
Qwen 3.8 Flash	86	64	80		76	86	75	57	90	90
DeepSeek V4 Pro	71	78	64	76		73	90	71	70	79
GLM-5.3	87	67	84	86	73		78	58	90	91
Kimi K3	73	86	72	75	90	78		74	78	81
MiniMax M3	67	79	65	57	71	58	74		61	57
Mistral Large 4	88	72	89	90	70	90	78	61		91
Nemotron 3 Ultra	87	69	85	90	79	91	81	57	91