Benchmark Almanac

LifeSci Diamond

GPT-6 Astra 29.1% leads since September 2026
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Models write regulatory affairs deliverables for drugs, biologics and medical devices, such as change assessment memos, dossier inconsistency logs and agency letters. The 55 tasks span five families: reporting categories, Module 2/3 dossier consistency, missing evidence, submissions and correspondence, and device vigilance. A model judge grades each answer against a task rubric, and a task passes only when every rubric line is met and no penalty fires.

Arca sells regulatory AI software and ranks four configurations of its own product next to 18 plain model APIs. Ten tasks are public (CC BY 4.0) and 45 are held out. The November 4th, 2026 edition regraded every answer with one judge, GPT-6.1 Sol at medium effort, so earlier numbers are not comparable. Each system gave one answer per task, and one task moves the pass rate by 1.8 points. Of the 55 answer keys, 26 had specialist review, 18 were written by contributors without a second read and 11 rest on primary sources only. The repository had 1 GitHub star on November 5th, 2026.

Made by
Arca
Released
September 2026
Kind
Medicine
Level
Expert
Scored
Graded by a model
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
Public, plus a private test set
Strongest model tested
GPT-6 Astra #3 on the capability index
Last model added
October 2026
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026
19
Entries on its own leaderboard, 18 models we track

GPT-6 Astra leads with 29.1%

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.

  1. 1 GPT-6 Astra 29.1%
  2. 2 Arca Auto [system] 20%
  3. 3 GPT-6.1 Sol 14.5%
  4. 4 Claude Opus 5.5 12.7%
  5. 5 Claude Opus 5 9.10%
  6. 6 Muse Wonder 9.10%
  7. 7 GPT-6.1 Terra 9.10%
  8. 8 GPT-5.6 Sol 5.50%
  9. 9 Claude Fable 5 3.60%
  10. 10 Grok 4.6 3.60%
  11. 11 Claude Sonnet 5 1.80%
  12. 12 GPT-5.6 Terra 1.80%
  13. 13 Kimi K3 1.80%
  14. 14 Gemini 3.7 Flash 1.80%
  15. 15 Claude Fable 5.1 1.80%
  16. 16 Gemini 3.1 Pro 0%
  17. 17 Claude Opus 4.8 0%
  18. 18 Muse Spark 1.2 0%
  19. 19 Gemini 4 Argon 0%

Source: Official LifeSci Diamond leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-6 Astra 29.1% Arca Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
2 Arca Auto [system] 20% Arca Official leaderboard
3 GPT-6.1 Sol 14.5% API Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
4 Claude Opus 5.5 12.7% Arca Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
5 Claude Opus 5 9.10% Arca Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
6 Muse Wonder 9.10% API Oct 2026 Official leaderboard
7 GPT-6.1 Terra 9.10% API Oct 2026 Official leaderboard
8 GPT-5.6 Sol 5.50% API Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
9 Claude Fable 5 3.60% API Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
10 Grok 4.6 3.60% API Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
11 Claude Sonnet 5 1.80% API Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
12 GPT-5.6 Terra 1.80% API Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
13 Kimi K3 1.80% API Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
14 Gemini 3.7 Flash 1.80% API Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
15 Claude Fable 5.1 1.80% API Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
16 Gemini 3.1 Pro 0% API Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
17 Claude Opus 4.8 0% API May 2026 Official leaderboard
18 Muse Spark 1.2 0% API Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
19 Gemini 4 Argon 0% API Sep 2026 Official leaderboard

The best score, 29.1%, costs $1.45 a task

Runs on the cost frontier score higher than any run that's cheaper. The costs are the leaderboard's own estimates, so compare them only within this benchmark.

Google DeepMind OpenAI Cost frontier One model at each effort level
0% 10% 20% 30% $0.01 $0.10 $1.00 $10 Cost per task, log scale GPT-6 Astra GPT-6.1 Sol GPT-6.1 Terra Gemini 3.7 Flash 0% 10% 20% 30% $0.01 $0.10 $1.00 $10 Cost per task, log scale GPT-6 Astra GPT-6.1 Sol

Source: Official LifeSci Diamond leaderboard

ModelEffortHarnessScoreCost per taskOutput tokens
GPT-6 Astra Arca 29.1% $1.45
GPT-6 Astra API 20% $3.00
GPT-6.1 Sol API 14.5% $0.55
Claude Opus 5.5 Arca 12.7% $0.61
Claude Opus 5 Arca 9.10% $0.60
Muse Wonder API 9.10% $4.15
GPT-6.1 Terra API 9.10% $0.28
GPT-5.6 Sol API 5.50% $0.69
Claude Fable 5 API 3.60% $0.87
Grok 4.6 API 3.60% $0.36
Claude Opus 5.5 API 3.60% $0.47
Claude Sonnet 5 API 1.80% $0.46
GPT-5.6 Terra API 1.80% $0.20
Kimi K3 API 1.80% $0.52
Claude Opus 5 API 1.80% $1.75
Gemini 3.7 Flash API 1.80% $0.08
Claude Fable 5.1 API 1.80% $1.32
Gemini 3.1 Pro API 0% $0.18
Claude Opus 4.8 API 0% $0.45
Muse Spark 1.2 API 0% $0.22
Gemini 4 Argon API 0% $0.16

2 models have held number one on the official leaderboard since its release in September 2026

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Anthropic OpenAI
Own leaderboard 2 leaders
GPT-6 Astra 29.1%

Source: Official LifeSci Diamond leaderboard

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 2027 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6 Astra Claude Opus 5 Claude Fable 5 Gemini 3.1 Pro 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 2027 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6 Astra Claude Opus 5

Source: Official LifeSci Diamond 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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