The best Meta model for building UI components is Llama 4 Maverick, rated 935 on Design Arena's component board — buttons, forms, modals and cards judged by blind human preference. Llama 4 Scout (803) is next.
AI models ranked by Design Arena Elo in the UI-component category — generating individual interface components (buttons, forms, modals, cards) rather than whole pages, judged head-to-head by humans. Component work is where most frontend time actually goes, and it rewards different things than page generation: consistent spacing, sane state handling and styling that matches the surrounding system.
The best Meta model for building UI components is Llama 4 Maverick, rated 935 on Design Arena's component board — buttons, forms, modals and cards judged by blind human preference. Llama 4 Scout (803) is next.
Llama 4 Scout (803) is the closest alternative on this metric. See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
modelgrep tracks 8 Meta models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Llama 4 Maverick. 2 of them qualify for this ranking.