xbench-ScienceQA
Models answer postgraduate-level science questions written by experts, in Chinese, as part of the xbench AGI Tracking series.
Not the 2022 ScienceQA from UCLA and Ai2. The repo board reports score and best of 5.
- Made by
- xbench (HongShan)
- Released
- May 2025
- Kind
- Science questions
- Level
- Expert
- Scored
- Checked automatically
- Answers
- Short answer
- Tasks
- All public
- Strongest model tested
- GPT-6 Astra #3 on the capability index
- Last model added
- September 2026
- Scores refreshed
- November 12th, 2026
In the authors’ words
We introduce xbench, a dynamic, profession-aligned evaluation suite designed to bridge the gap between AI agent capabilities and real-world productivity. While existing benchmarks often focus on isolated technical skills, they may not accurately reflect the economic value agents deliver in professional settings. To address this, xbench targets commercially significant domains with evaluation tasks defined by industry professionals. Our framework creates metrics that strongly correlate with productivity value, enables prediction of Technology-Market Fit (TMF), and facilitates tracking of product capabilities over time. As our initial implementations, we present two benchmarks: Recruitment and Marketing. For Recruitment, we collect 50 tasks from real-world headhunting business scenarios to evaluate agents' abilities in company mapping, information retrieval, and talent sourcing. For Marketing, we assess agents' ability to match influencers with advertiser needs, evaluating their performance across 50 advertiser requirements using a curated pool of 836 candidate influencers. We present initial evaluation results for leading contemporary agents, establishing a baseline for these professional domains. Our continuously updated evalsets and evaluations are available at https://xbench.org.
2 models share the top score of 76.4% among models released by September 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.
The newest model with a score here came out in September 2026, 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
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Gemini 4 Carbon
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- and 11 more
- 76.4 Claude Opus 4.8
- 76.4 Claude Opus 5.5
- 74.6 GPT-6 Astra
- 73.4 Claude Fable 5
- 73.4
Qwen 3.8 Max
- 73.0 Claude Opus 4.7
- 73.0 GPT-5.5 Pro
- 72.6
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- 72.4 Grok 4.5
- 72.4
Gemini 3.8 Flash
- 72.2 GPT-5.4 Pro
- 71.6
Gemini 3 Pro
- 71.2 Kimi K3
- 71.0
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
- 71.0
Seed2.1 Pro
- 71.0 GPT-5.6 Sol Pro
- 70.8 GPT-5.4
- 70.8
Qwen3.7-Max
- 70.4 Grok 4.6
- 70.2
Gemini 3.7 Flash
- 69.8
Tencent Hy4 preview
- 69.4
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
- 69.2
Seed2.0 Pro
- 66.6
Tencent Hy3
- 65.8 Kimi K2.6
- 65.8 GLM-5.3
- 65.6
Gemini 3.6 Flash
- 65.0 Grok 4
- 64.6 GLM-5.2
- 1 Claude Opus 4.8 76.4%
- 2 Claude Opus 5.5 76.4%
- 3 GPT-6 Astra max 74.6%
- 4 Claude Fable 5 73.4%
- 5
Qwen 3.8 Max 73.4%
- 6 Claude Opus 4.7 73%
- 7 GPT-5.5 Pro high 73%
- 8
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash max 72.6%
- 9 Grok 4.5 72.4%
- 10
Gemini 3.8 Flash high 72.4%
- 11 GPT-5.4 Pro 72.2%
- 12
Gemini 3 Pro 71.6%
- 13 Kimi K3 71.2%
- 14
DeepSeek-V4-Flash 71%
- 15
Seed2.1 Pro 71%
- 16 GPT-5.6 Sol Pro 71%
- 17 GPT-5.4 70.8%
- 18
Qwen3.7-Max xhigh 70.8%
- 19 Grok 4.6 70.4%
- 20
Gemini 3.7 Flash 70.2%
- 21
Tencent Hy4 preview 69.8%
- 22
DeepSeek-V4-Pro max 69.4%
- 23
Seed2.0 Pro high 69.2%
- 24
Tencent Hy3 66.6%
- 25 Kimi K2.6 65.8%
- 26 GLM-5.3 65.8%
- 27
Gemini 3.6 Flash 65.6%
- 28 Grok 4 65%
- 29 GLM-5.2 64.6%
Source: Official xbench-ScienceQA leaderboard
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 76.4% | May 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5 | 76.4% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 3 | GPT-6 Astra | 74.6% | max | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5 | 73.4% | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 5 | | 73.4% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 6 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 73% | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 7 | GPT-5.5 Pro | 73% | high | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 8 | | 72.6% | max | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 9 | Grok 4.5 | 72.4% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 10 | | 72.4% | high | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 11 | GPT-5.4 Pro | 72.2% | Mar 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 12 | | 71.6% | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 13 | Kimi K3 | 71.2% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 14 | | 71% | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 15 | | 71% | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 16 | GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | 71% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 17 | GPT-5.4 | 70.8% | Mar 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 18 | | 70.8% | xhigh | May 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 19 | Grok 4.6 | 70.4% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 20 | | 70.2% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 21 | | 69.8% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 22 | | 69.4% | max | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 23 | | 69.2% | high | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 24 | | 66.6% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 25 | Kimi K2.6 | 65.8% | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 26 | GLM-5.3 | 65.8% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 27 | | 65.6% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 28 | Grok 4 | 65% | Jul 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 29 | GLM-5.2 | 64.6% | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard |
5 models have held number one on the official leaderboard since its release in May 2025
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Source: Official xbench-ScienceQA leaderboard
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Official xbench-ScienceQA 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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