Benchmark Almanac

RWSearch

GPT-5.2 82% leads since January 2026
GPT-5.2 82% leads since January 2026
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Agents search the live web to answer 200 expert-written Chinese questions that need many retrieval steps, filtering and arithmetic. Each question has one objective answer.

60 percent of the questions use facts from 2025. The README leaderboard lists LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 at 79.5.

Released
January 2026
Kind
Deep research
Level
Expert
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Short answer
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
GPT-5.2 #50 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
July 2026, dropped before it saturated
Last model added
July 2026
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026
7
Models scored on its own leaderboard
2
Launch posts list it, from 1 lab
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

GPT-5.2 leads with 82% among models released by January 2026

Best score per model from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best.

GPT-5.2 leads with 82%, claims included

Best score per model from every source, including labs’ own numbers and claims Epoch AI collected from reports and papers. Labs pick their own settings, so a claim can beat an independent run of the same model.

The newest model with a score here came out in January 2026, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 GPT-5.2 xhigh 82%
  2. 2 LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 79.5%
  3. 3 Claude Opus 4.5 75.5%
  4. 4 Gemini 3 Pro 74.5%
  5. 5 DeepSeek-V3.2 thinking 74%
  6. 6 GLM-4.7 thinking 69%
  7. 7 Kimi K2 Thinking 63%

Source: Official RWSearch leaderboard

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-5.2 82% xhigh Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
2 LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 79.5% Jan 2026 Official leaderboard
3 Claude Opus 4.5 75.5% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
4 Gemini 3 Pro 74.5% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
5 DeepSeek-V3.2 74% thinking Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
6 GLM-4.7 69% thinking Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
7 Kimi K2 Thinking 63% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-5.2 82% xhigh Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
2 LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 79.5% Jan 2026 Official leaderboard
3 LongCat-2.0 78.8% Jul 2026 Lab model card
4 Claude Opus 4.5 75.5% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
5 Gemini 3 Pro 74.5% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
6 DeepSeek-V3.2 74% thinking Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
7 GLM-4.7 69% thinking Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
8 Kimi K2 Thinking 63% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard

Labs report scores for 2 models in their cards. Switch the scores above to rank them together.

Number one over time Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release. We draw one row each for the benchmark’s own leaderboard and what labs claim in their cards.

OpenAI Meituan
Own leaderboard Not tested since Jan 2026
GPT-5.2 82%
Lab claims Not tested since Jul 2026

Sources: Official RWSearch leaderboard and labs’ model cards

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 Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-5.2 Claude Opus 4.5 Kimi K2 Thinking 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-5.2 Claude Opus 4.5

Sources: Official RWSearch leaderboard and labs’ model cards

Labs headline it less often now, last in July 2026

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Meituan
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
Jul 5, 2026 LongCat-2.0 78.8 RWSearch
Jan 14, 2026 LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 79.5 RW Search (Pass@1)

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
Jan 23, 2026 LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 technical report 79.5 RW Search (Pass@1), no context management (Table 2) Capabilities

One lab claim next to the leaderboard

Each score a lab reported for its own model, beside the same model's best score on the leaderboard. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. 1 of them match, which usually means one side copied the other. Every benchmark.

Model Lab says Board says Gap
LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 79.5% RW Search (Pass@1) 79.5% Leaderboard Same

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