WorldTravel
Agents plan trips for 150 real-world scenarios across 5 cities with more than 15 tightly coupled time and logic constraints each. A web environment supplies multimodal travel data.
Seed1.8 first reported it as an internal benchmark in December 2025, before the paper. Seed1.8 reports best of five attempts.
- Made by
- ByteDance Seed and collaborators (Wang et al.)
- Released
- February 2026
- Kind
- General assistants
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Checked automatically
- Answers
- Agent task
- Strongest model tested
- GPT-5.2 #50 on the capability index
- Last in a launch post
- December 2025, dropped before it saturated
- Last model added
- March 2026
- Scores refreshed
- November 12th, 2026
In the authors’ words
Real-world autonomous planning requires coordinating tightly coupled constraints where a single decision dictates the feasibility of all subsequent actions. However, existing benchmarks predominantly feature loosely coupled constraints solvable through local greedy decisions and rely on idealized data, failing to capture the complexity of extracting parameters from dynamic web environments. We introduce WorldTravel, a benchmark comprising 150 real-world travel scenarios across 5 cities that demand navigating an average of 15+ interdependent temporal and logical constraints. To evaluate agents in realistic deployments, we develop WorldTravel-Webscape, a multi-modal environment featuring over 2,000 rendered webpages where agents must perceive constraint parameters directly from visual layouts to inform their planning. Our evaluation of 10 frontier models reveals a significant performance collapse: even the state-of-the-art GPT-5.2 achieves only 32.67% feasibility in text-only settings, which plummets to 19.33% in multi-modal environments. We identify a critical Perception-Action Gap and a Planning Horizon threshold at approximately 10 constraints where model reasoning consistently fails, suggesting that perception and reasoning remain independent bottlenecks. These findings underscore the need for next-generation agents that unify high-fidelity visual perception with long-horizon reasoning to handle brittle real-world logistics.
GPT-5.2 leads with 32.7% among models released by December 2025
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.
Seed1.8 leads with 47.2%, 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 December 2025, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- Claude Fable 5.2
-
Gemini 4 Carbon
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- and 16 more
- 1 GPT-5.2 Text Setting 32.7%
- 2 Claude Opus 4.5 Text Setting 21.3%
- 3 GPT-5.1 Text Setting 16.7%
- 4
Gemini 3 Pro Text Setting 14.7%
- 5
DeepSeek-V3.2 Text Setting 14%
- 6 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Text Setting 10%
- 7 Doubao-1.8-Pro Text Setting 8.67%
- 8 Gemini-2.5-Pro (snapshot unspecified) Text Setting 8.00%
- 9 GLM-4.6 Text Setting 8.00%
- 10 Qwen-3-A235B Text Setting 2.67%
Source: Official WorldTravel leaderboard
- 1
Seed1.8 47.2%
- 2 GPT-5.2 Text Setting 32.7%
- 3 Claude Opus 4.5 Text Setting 21.3%
- 4 GPT-5.1 Text Setting 16.7%
- 5
Gemini 3 Pro Text Setting 14.7%
- 6
DeepSeek-V3.2 Text Setting 14%
- 7 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Text Setting 10%
- 8 GLM-4.6 Text Setting 8.00%
Sources: Labs’ model cards and official WorldTravel leaderboard
| # | Entry | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 | 32.7% | Text Setting | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 2 | Claude Opus 4.5 | 21.3% | Text Setting | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 3 | GPT-5.1 | 16.7% | Text Setting | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 4 | | 14.7% | Text Setting | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 5 | | 14% | Text Setting | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 6 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 10% | Text Setting | Sep 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 7 | Doubao-1.8-Pro | 8.67% | Text Setting | Official leaderboard | |
| 8 | Gemini-2.5-Pro (snapshot unspecified) | 8.00% | Text Setting | Official leaderboard | |
| 9 | GLM-4.6 | 8.00% | Text Setting | Sep 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 10 | Qwen-3-A235B | 2.67% | Text Setting | Official leaderboard |
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 47.2% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 | 32.7% | Text Setting | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.5 | 21.3% | Text Setting | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 4 | GPT-5.1 | 16.7% | Text Setting | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 5 | | 14.7% | Text Setting | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 6 | | 14% | Text Setting | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 7 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 10% | Text Setting | Sep 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 8 | GLM-4.6 | 8.00% | Text Setting | Sep 2025 | Official leaderboard |
Labs report scores for 1 model in their cards. Switch the scores above to rank them together.
Scores at each effort level
Models the leaderboard ran at two or more effort levels. We don’t have enough cost data here to say what the extra effort costs.
Source: Official WorldTravel leaderboard
| Model | Effort | Harness | Score | Cost per task | Output tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.2 | Text Setting | 32.7% | |||
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Text Setting | 21.3% | |||
| GPT-5.2 | Multi-modal Setting | 19.3% | |||
| GPT-5.1 | Text Setting | 16.7% | |||
| | Text Setting | 14.7% | |||
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Multi-modal Setting | 14% | |||
| | Text Setting | 14% | |||
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Text Setting | 10% | |||
| GLM-4.6 | Text Setting | 8.00% | |||
| | Multi-modal Setting | 8.00% | |||
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Multi-modal Setting | 2.67% | |||
| GPT-5.1 | Multi-modal Setting | 2.67% |
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.
Source: Official WorldTravel leaderboard
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Sources: Official WorldTravel leaderboard and labs’ model cards
Labs headline it less often now, last in December 2025
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.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | 47.2 | WorldTravel multi-modal (best of 5) 47.2 / text 52.1 |
2 system cards report it, from 1 lab
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.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 2026 | | WorldTravel best of 5, multi-modal 47.2, text 52.1, no overall (Table 4) | Capabilities | |
| Feb 14, 2026 | | World Travel (VLM) 12.0, World Travel (TEXT) 23.3, no overall (Table 13) | Capabilities |
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