Bedside Bench
Models answer 500 physician-written clinical cases on diagnosis, workup, escalation and medication safety. An LLM judge grades each answer against the authors' criteria.
Ten suites, with the headline as the macro average of suite means. 16 models in the Fireworks index. No maker page with details found.
- Made by
- Doximity
- Kind
- Medicine
- Level
- Expert
- Scored
- Graded by a model
- Answers
- Open-ended
- Tasks
- Kept private
- Strongest model tested
- GPT-6 Astra #3 on the capability index
- Last model added
- October 2026
- Scores refreshed
- November 12th, 2026
Doximity Ask V7 tops the leaderboard with 95.4%
Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Every run is in the next chart. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders. The best model we track is Claude Opus 5, at 94.6%.
- 95.4 Doximity Ask V7
- 94.6 Claude Opus 5
- 94.3
Muse Spark Open
- 93.9 GPT-6.1 Sol
- 93.4 GPT-6 Astra
- 92.7
Gemini 4 Argon
- 91.5 Kimi K3.1 Pro
- 91.1 GPT-5.6 Sol
- 89.7 Kimi K3
- 89.1
Ember-1
- 88.1 GPT-6 Sol
- 87.2 GPT-6 Luna
- 86.9 GLM-5.3
- 86.5
Gemini 3.8 Flash
- 85.7
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
- 83.3 Grok 4.6
- 82.9
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- 80.6
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
- 1 Doximity Ask V7 95.4%
- 2 Claude Opus 5 94.6%
- 3
Muse Spark Open 94.3%
- 4 GPT-6.1 Sol 93.9%
- 5 GPT-6 Astra 93.4%
- 6
Gemini 4 Argon 92.7%
- 7 Kimi K3.1 Pro 91.5%
- 8 GPT-5.6 Sol 91.1%
- 9 Kimi K3 89.7%
- 10
Ember-1 89.1%
- 11 GPT-6 Sol 88.1%
- 12 GPT-6 Luna 87.2%
- 13 GLM-5.3 86.9%
- 14
Gemini 3.8 Flash 86.5%
- 15
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 85.7%
- 16 Grok 4.6 83.3%
- 17
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 82.9%
- 18
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 80.6%
Source: Official Bedside Bench leaderboard
| # | Entry | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doximity Ask V7 | 95.4% | Nov 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5 | 94.6% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 3 | | 94.3% | Oct 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 4 | GPT-6.1 Sol | 93.9% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 5 | GPT-6 Astra | 93.4% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 6 | | 92.7% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 7 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | 91.5% | Oct 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 8 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 91.1% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 9 | Kimi K3 | 89.7% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 10 | | 89.1% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 11 | GPT-6 Sol | 88.1% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 12 | GPT-6 Luna | 87.2% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 13 | GLM-5.3 | 86.9% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 14 | | 86.5% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 15 | | 85.7% | Oct 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 16 | Grok 4.6 | 83.3% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 17 | | 82.9% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 18 | | 80.6% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard |
Score vs. cost per task
The line joins the runs that no other run beats on both measures. We redrew this chart from the numbers on the official leaderboard.
| Model | Setting | Score | Cost per task |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5 | 94.6% | $0.12 | |
| | 94.3% | $0.02 | |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | 93.9% | $0.04 | |
| GPT-6 Astra | 93.4% | $0.11 | |
| | 92.7% | $0.03 | |
| Kimi K3.1 Pro | 91.5% | $0.05 | |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | 91.1% | $0.05 | |
| Kimi K3 | 89.7% | $0.05 | |
| | 89.1% | $0.04 | |
| GPT-6 Sol | 88.1% | $0.01 | |
| GPT-6 Luna | 87.2% | $0 | |
| GLM-5.3 | 86.9% | $0.02 | |
| | 86.5% | $0.01 | |
| | 85.7% | $0.01 | |
| Grok 4.6 | 83.3% | $0.01 | |
| | 82.9% | $0.01 | |
| | 80.6% | $0.02 |
The best score, 94.6%, costs $0.12 a task
Runs on the cost frontier score higher than any run that's cheaper. Muse Spark Open comes within 0.3 points of the best for $0.02 a task, 7 times cheaper. The costs are the leaderboard's own estimates, so compare them only within this benchmark.
Source: Official Bedside Bench leaderboard
| Model | Effort | Harness | Score | Cost per task | Output tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5 | 94.6% | $0.12 | 4,699 | ||
| | 94.3% | $0.02 | 3,914 | ||
| GPT-6.1 Sol | 93.9% | $0.04 | 3,728 | ||
| GPT-6 Astra | 93.4% | $0.11 | 2,087 | ||
| | 92.7% | $0.03 | 2,858 | ||
| Kimi K3.1 Pro | 91.5% | $0.05 | 4,575 | ||
| GPT-5.6 Sol | 91.1% | $0.05 | 2,471 | ||
| Kimi K3 | 89.7% | $0.05 | 3,479 | ||
| | 89.1% | $0.04 | 2,668 | ||
| GPT-6 Sol | 88.1% | $0.01 | 1,459 | ||
| GPT-6 Luna | 87.2% | $0.001 | 2,863 | ||
| GLM-5.3 | 86.9% | $0.02 | 4,728 | ||
| | 86.5% | $0.009 | 2,412 | ||
| | 85.7% | $0.007 | 5,421 | ||
| Grok 4.6 | 83.3% | $0.01 | 1,856 | ||
| | 82.9% | $0.008 | 6,923 | ||
| | 80.6% | $0.02 | 3,878 |
2 models have held number one on the official leaderboard since 2023
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Source: Official Bedside Bench leaderboard
GPT-5.6 Sol on the official leaderboard passed 85% in July 2026
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Official Bedside Bench leaderboard
No lab model card reports it yet
We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.
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