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AI top ten: drummers · greatest

List the ten greatest drummers of all time, ranked 1 to 10. Give one brief sentence explaining each choice.

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John Bonham49 / 65
Buddy Rich8 / 65
Neil Peart5 / 65
Gene Krupa2 / 65
Keith Moon1 / 65
About these answers

One recorded answer per model version for this exact prompt. The chart counts the first choice in 65 interpretable ranked answers, from 67 completed replies. Unordered replies are not counted as first choices; unresolved names remain labeled. Model versions and fine-tunes are not independent companies.

These tests describe generated answers, not human tastes. The greatest and imagined-listening questions stay separate. Lower positions in a single list are not a stable overall ranking. Repeated observations of one model do not count as additional model versions.

Answers by model

amazon/nova-lite-v1John Bonham
amazon/nova-2-lite-v1Gene Krupa
amazon/nova-micro-v1Neil Peart
amazon/nova-pro-v1John Bonham
anthropic/claude-3-haikuNeil Peart
anthracite-org/magnum-v4-72bBuddy Rich
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5Keith Moon
anthropic/claude-opus-4John Bonham
anthropic/claude-opus-4.5Buddy Rich
anthropic/claude-opus-4.1John Bonham
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6John Bonham
anthropic/claude-opus-4.7Neil Peart
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8John Bonham
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4John Bonham
anthropic/claude-opus-5Buddy Rich
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5John Bonham
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6John Bonham
baidu/ernie-4.5-vl-424b-a47bNeil Peart
bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flashBuddy Rich
bytedance-seed/seed-1.6John Bonham
cognitivecomputations/dolphin-mistral-24b-venice-editionJohn Bonham
deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324John Bonham
deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3.1John Bonham
deepseek/deepseek-r1Buddy Rich
deepseek/deepseek-v3.2John Bonham
deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528Buddy Rich
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731John Bonham
deepseek/deepseek-v4-proJohn Bonham
google/gemini-2.5-flashJohn Bonham
google/gemini-2.5-flash-liteJohn Bonham
google/gemini-3.1-flash-liteJohn Bonham
google/gemini-3-flash-previewJohn Bonham
google/gemini-3.5-flash-liteJohn Bonham
google/gemini-3.6-flashJohn Bonham
google/gemini-3.7-flashJohn Bonham
google/gemini-3.8-flashJohn Bonham
google/gemma-3-4b-itJohn Bonham
google/gemma-3-12b-itJohn Bonham
gryphe/mythomax-l2-13bBuddy Rich
inception/mercury-2John Bonham
google/gemma-4-31b-itJohn Bonham
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flashJohn Bonham
meta-llama/llama-3.2-3b-instructJohn Bonham
mancer/weaverNeil Peart
meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instructJohn Bonham
meta-llama/llama-4-maverickJohn Bonham
meta-llama/llama-4-scoutJohn Bonham
meta/muse-glimmer-30bJohn Bonham
microsoft/phi-4John Bonham
minimax/minimax-m3John Bonham
mistralai/ministral-3b-2512John Bonham
minimax/minimax-m2John Bonham
mistralai/ministral-8b-2512Gene Krupa
mistralai/mistral-medium-3-5John Bonham
mistralai/mistral-large-2512John Bonham
mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501John Bonham
mistralai/mistral-nemoJohn Bonham
mistralai/mistral-small-2603John Bonham
moonshotai/kimi-k2Buddy Rich
moonshotai/kimi-k2-0905John Bonham
moonshotai/kimi-k3John Bonham
nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405bJohn Bonham
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3bJohn Bonham
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5John Bonham
openai/gpt-5.6-terraJohn Bonham
Prompt settings

Collected 10 September 2026. Fresh conversations; provider-default temperature, no tools. Requested model IDs are shown above.

Output limit: 1500 tokens. Reasoning setting: {'effort': 'low'}. System instruction: None supplied.

Output limit: 1500 tokens. Reasoning setting: {'enabled': False}. System instruction: None supplied.

Output limit: 1500 tokens. Reasoning setting: {}. System instruction: None supplied.