Stockfish, Stockfish
Stockfish won Chess.com's 2018 Computer Chess Championship, defeating Houdini 120-80 (+44 -4 =152) in the final match. (HT: Anon) The games were played with a 15'+5" time control, and it's clear for now that neither Houdini nor Komodo is able to compete with Stockfish. (Leela Chess Zero is another story; it's getting consistently better.) For now I don't see a website with the results, so if a reader can supply that it would be appreciated.
Stockfish is also leading in the penultimate stage of TCEC 13 with 38.5/55, with Komodo three points behind, Houdini a further three points back, and Fire yet another six points behind. So it looks like Stockfish's Superfinal punching back will be Komodo this time around, unless they've got some massive improvements ready to implement. (And in the meantime, the Stockfish team has already produced some serious improvements over the version that's currently in action. Programmers are allowed to switch to upgraded versions between stages, but not in the middle of a stage.)
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The website is http:chess.com\cccc. For some reason there is no link on the main webpage of Chess.com.
Thanks Dennis for at pointing out the events. I have casually followed both events. Leela Chess Zero, I believe, was a respectable 4th in the preliminaries and may have been as high as second for a short period of time before following back. Stockfish is just a tough engine to beat and it sure knows how to beat Houdini and Komodo. Neither Houdini or Komodo lose much to each other and definitely rarely to the bottom half, but Stockfish just has that edge they can't overcome.