Benchmark Almanac

Science and reasoning

We track 97 benchmarks in science and reasoning. They run from everyday level to research frontier level.

OpenAI held the top science and reasoning score 39% of the contested time

That's about 18 of the 46 months since January 2023, averaged over these benchmarks. We only count time while other labs are still testing, and stop once a model passes 85%. Faded stretches no longer count.

OpenAI DeepSeek xAI Google DeepMind Anthropic NVIDIA Tencent Qwen Baidu Meituan Ant Group ByteDance Seed Mistral AI Meta Moonshot AI
Everyday Most adults, without training
ARC-AGI-3 Passed 85% in Sep 2026, by GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra 99.95%
SimpleBench Passed 85% in Sep 2026, by Claude Fable 5.1
Misguided Attention Not tested since Jun 2025
Grok-3 mini 73.7%
School Students, from grade school to high school
ZebraLogic Passed 85% in May 2025, by Qwen3-30B-A3B
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
KOR-Bench Not tested since Oct 2024
o1-preview 72.9%
Competition The strongest students, in olympiad-style contests
HiPhO Not tested since Dec 2025
Gemini 3 Pro 78.3%
PHYBench Not tested since Jul 2026
Tencent Hy3 77.4%
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
GPQA Diamond Passed 85% in Jun 2025, by Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPQA Main Not tested since Nov 2025
Gemini 3 Pro 80.3%
DTBench Passed 85% in Jun 2025, by o3-pro
Terminal-Bench-Science Not tested since Sep 2026
GPT-6 Astra 68.1%
Research frontier Researchers, on open problems or tasks that take days
CritPt v2 4 leaders
GPT-6 Astra 83.1%

Sources: Official leaderboards, Epoch AI runs (CC BY 4.0) and labs’ model cards

Each benchmark counts from the one source its own page leads with: its official leaderboard when that is current, else Epoch AI’s own runs, else labs’ own numbers. We date independent runs by the model’s release and lab reports by when they came out.

OpenAI DeepSeek xAI Google DeepMind Anthropic NVIDIA Mistral AI Meta Moonshot AI
Everyday Most adults, without training
ARC-AGI-3 Passed 85% in Sep 2026, by GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra 99.95%
SimpleBench Passed 85% in Sep 2026, by Claude Fable 5.1
Misguided Attention Not tested since Jun 2025
Grok-3 mini 73.7%
School Students, from grade school to high school
ZebraLogic Passed 85% in Feb 2025, by o3-mini
o3-mini 91.7%
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
KOR-Bench Not tested since Oct 2024
o1-preview 72.9%
Competition The strongest students, in olympiad-style contests
PHYBench Not tested since Nov 2025
Gemini 3 Pro 50.4%
HiPhO Not tested since Dec 2025
Gemini 3 Pro 78.3%
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
GPQA Diamond Passed 85% in Jun 2025, by Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPQA Main Not tested since Nov 2025
Gemini 3 Pro 80.3%
DTBench Passed 85% in Jun 2025, by o3-pro
Terminal-Bench-Science Not tested since Sep 2026
GPT-6 Astra 68.1%
Research frontier Researchers, on open problems or tasks that take days
CritPt v2 4 leaders
GPT-6 Astra 83.1%

Sources: Official leaderboards and Epoch AI runs (CC BY 4.0)

Every independent run: each benchmark’s own leaderboard, Epoch AI’s runs and boards Epoch AI copied, dated by the model’s release. We leave out benchmarks that only labs report.

OpenAI DeepSeek ByteDance Seed xAI Google DeepMind Anthropic NVIDIA Meituan Qwen Tencent Mistral AI Meta
Everyday Most adults, without training
ARC-AGI-3 Passed 85% in Sep 2026, by GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra 99.95%
SimpleBench Passed 85% in Sep 2026, by Claude Fable 5.1
Misguided Attention Not tested since Jun 2025
Grok-3 mini 73.7%
School Students, from grade school to high school
ZebraLogic Passed 85% in Feb 2025, by o3-mini
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
KOR-Bench Not tested since Mar 2026
Seed2.0 Pro 77.5%
Competition The strongest students, in olympiad-style contests
PHYBench Not tested since Jul 2026
Tencent Hy3 77.4%
HiPhO Passed 85% in Aug 2026, by Qwen 3.8 Max
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
GPQA Diamond Passed 85% in Jun 2025, by Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPQA Main Not tested since Nov 2025
Gemini 3 Pro 80.3%
DTBench Passed 85% in Jun 2025, by o3-pro
BioMysteryBench Passed 85% in Jul 2026, by Claude Opus 5
Research frontier Researchers, on open problems or tasks that take days
CritPt v2 4 leaders
GPT-6 Astra 83.1%

Sources: Official leaderboards, Epoch AI runs (CC BY 4.0) and labs’ model cards

Every score, 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.

From everyday to research frontier level

Grouped by who could solve the tasks, from things most adults can do to open research problems. The bar under each name is its best score.

School

Students, from grade school to high school

By kind

Science questions

BenchmarkLevelScoredBest scoreStatus
GPQA Diamond 198 graduate-level 'Google-proof' multiple-choice questions in biology, chemistry and physics. Expert Checked automatically 96.5% In use
GPQA Main Models answer the 448 question main set of GPQA, graduate level biology, chemistry and physics questions written by experts. Scored by accuracy. Expert Checked automatically 80.3% Dropped
SciArena Researchers ask scientific literature questions and vote between two models' long cited answers. Votes give Elo ratings. Expert Ranked by votes 1,151 Not in cards
xbench-ScienceQA Models answer postgraduate-level science questions written by experts, in Chinese, as part of the xbench AGI Tracking series. Expert Checked automatically 76.4% Not in cards
ChemBench Models answer more than 2,700 chemistry questions on knowledge and reasoning. Results are compared with a group of human chemists. Expert Checked automatically 70.9% Dropped
PHYSICS Models solve 1,297 PhD qualifying exam physics problems across six subfields, 298 of them with images. Answers are checked by symbolic equivalence. Expert Checked automatically 59.9% Dropped
PHYSICS-Verified Corrected PHYSICS test problems with answer-level accuracy. The complete verified test set. Expert Checked automatically 91.1% Not in cards
PhyX Models solve 3,000 image-based physics problems across six domains such as mechanics and optics. Versions include multiple choice and open-ended answers. University Graded by a model 45.8% Fading
TheoremQA Models solve 800 university-level questions in math, physics, EE and CS, and finance that each need a specific theorem. Scored by answer accuracy. University Checked automatically 44.4% Dropped
A^3-Bench Models solve 2,198 science reasoning problems annotated with the anchors and attractors (prior knowledge) they need. An AAUI metric measures how much of that knowledge the model activates. University Checked automatically 65.1% Not in cards
ATLAS (OpenCompass) Models answer about 800 original PhD-level problems across mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, earth science and materials science. Answers are open-form and checked by an LLM judge. Research frontier Graded by a model 42.9% Not in cards
PhysicsFinals Models answer 61 undergraduate physics final exam problems written by physics professors. A professor grades the answers. University Graded by people 63.9% Dropped
GPQA Extended Models answer all 546 GPQA questions, graduate level biology, chemistry and physics questions written by experts. Scored by accuracy. Expert Checked automatically 48.8% System cards only
GRE Physics Models answer questions from official GRE Physics practice tests. Scored as accuracy. University Checked automatically 80% System cards only
SciBench Models solve open-ended college-level problems in mathematics, chemistry and physics. Most answers are numbers, which a script checks against the key. University Checked automatically 8.45% Not in cards
SciQ Models answer crowdsourced multiple-choice science exam questions in physics, chemistry and biology, each with a supporting passage. School Checked automatically Not in cards

Science olympiads

BenchmarkLevelScoredBest scoreStatus
HiPhO Models solve theory problems from 2024 and 2025 physics olympiad exams, some with diagrams. Official marking schemes grade answers and steps, mapped to medal levels. Competition Graded by a model 78.3% In use
PHYBench Models solve 500 original physics problems from high school to Physics Olympiad level. Answers are expressions checked against the key. Competition Checked automatically 77.4% Fading
OlympicArena Models solve 11,163 bilingual problems from 62 international olympiad competitions in seven fields, some with images. Answers are checked against keys. Competition Checked automatically 40.5% Dropped
FrontierScience-Olympiad Models solve olympiad-style physics, chemistry and biology problems at the level of IPhO, IChO and IBO, written by medalists and coaches. Graded on short final answers. Competition Checked automatically 77.1% System cards only
IPhO 2025 Models solve the theory problems of the 2025 International Physics Olympiad. Answers are graded against the official marking scheme. Competition Graded by people 79.3% Fading
IChO 2025 Models solve the written theoretical problems of the 57th International Chemistry Olympiad, held in Dubai in July 2025. Answers are graded against the official marking scheme. Competition Graded by people Fading
USABO Semifinal Exam 2020 Models take the 2020 USA Biology Olympiad semifinal exam. Scored out of 150 points. Competition Checked automatically 87.0 System cards only
USNCO Local Section Exam 2022 Models take the 2022 US National Chemistry Olympiad local section exam. Scored out of 60 questions. Competition Checked automatically 36.0 System cards only

Research science

BenchmarkLevelScoredBest scoreStatus
Terminal-Bench-Science 70 scientific research-workflow tasks across five science areas, run in Harbor containers. Hidden tests give the resolution rate. Expert Checked automatically 68.1% In use
CritPt 71 frontier physics research challenges with checkable answers. Anthropic uses a corrected internal version. Research frontier Checked automatically 83.1% In use
Surface Evolver Bench Agents write Surface Evolver datafiles that model liquid surfaces under physical constraints across 16 tasks. Deterministic checks give partial credit for matching hidden reference quantities. Expert Checked automatically 95% Not in cards
ResearchClawBench Agents get the literature and raw data behind a published paper, with the paper hidden, and try to rediscover its results. Expert rubrics with weighted criteria grade the outputs. Research frontier Graded by a model 38.6 Not in cards
Verifying the Verifiers (Project APE CRED benchmark) Verifier LLMs must find planted errors (prose-table, paper-code, execution, data) in AI-generated economics papers. Credit needs a verbatim quote of the edit. Expert Checked automatically 99.5% Not in cards
FrontierPhysics Agents do end-to-end physics research on 56 tasks that 42 physicists from 26 institutions built from their own work, across nine domains of theoretical, computational and experimental physics. Each task asks the agent to review the literature, plan, run the research and write a manuscript. Deterministic verifiers and expert rubrics grade whether the research is correct and publishable, over 3 trials. Expert Checked automatically 27.4% Not in cards
BixBench3 Agents rebuild the full computational analysis of 20 published biology papers from raw data on a cloud VM. Output tables are graded against the papers' own artifacts. Research frontier Checked automatically 52.3 Not in cards
NatureBench Coding agents work on 90 tasks distilled from Nature-family papers, each in its own container, and try to match or beat the published results. Research frontier Checked automatically 26.7% Not in cards
CORE-Bench Agents reproduce the results of published studies from their code and data. 270 tasks from 90 papers in computer science, social science and medicine come in three difficulty levels. Expert Checked automatically 77.8% Not in cards
SGI-Bench Models work through more than 1,000 expert samples in four scientist tasks: deep research, idea generation, dry and wet experiments, and experimental reasoning. Expert Graded by a model 33.8% In use
FrontierScience Models solve physics, chemistry, and biology problems in an Olympiad track graded by short answer and a Research track graded by 10-point rubrics. Expert Graded by a model 87% In use
CMT-Benchmark Models solve 50 research-level condensed matter theory problems written and checked by a panel of expert physicists. Answers are graded automatically. Research frontier Checked automatically 30% Fading
FrontierScience-Research Models work on open-ended PhD-level research subtasks in physics, chemistry and biology, written by working scientists. A grader scores each answer against a 10-point rubric. Expert Graded by a model 38% Fading
AstaBench Agents work through more than 2,400 scientific research problems in 11 benchmarks across four areas: literature understanding, code and execution, data analysis, and end-to-end discovery. Many problems come from real requests to Ai2's deployed Asta agents. Agents use a fixed set of production-grade search tools, and the leaderboard plots score against cost per problem. Expert Graded by a model 58% Not in cards
CritPt v2 Models solve unpublished research-level physics challenges written by working physicists, with answers graded automatically. The v2 release revised the public test challenges. Research frontier Checked automatically 83.1% In use
SciPredict Models predict the outcomes of 405 real physics, biology and chemistry experiments published after March 31, 2025, with and without expert background knowledge. Expert Checked automatically 25.3% Not in cards
ASI-Bench AI systems try to explore unknown problems, create new knowledge and turn new ideas into verifiable results, rather than apply learned knowledge. Research frontier Checked automatically 55.8 Not in cards
FrontierChallenge Agents complete end-to-end scientific workflows in chemistry, materials, molecular dynamics and life science from fixed inputs, producing a set of required deliverables. Task-specific graders check each deliverable. Expert Checked automatically 20.6% Not in cards
ExplorationBench Agents explore verifiable alien worlds with hidden laws, framing hypotheses and running experiments. The worlds are built so that recalled pretraining knowledge does not help. Research frontier Checked automatically 89% Not in cards
PaperBenchX Agents reproduce published results from 12 research areas outside machine learning, using each field's own scientific software. Verifiers check that the evidence regenerates and supports the paper's claims. Research frontier Checked automatically 14% Not in cards
Into the Unknown Agents get a science paper and an unpublished follow-up direction from a DOE national lab scientist, then write the follow-up paper. Rubrics built from the scientist's conditions grade it, plus an integrity check. Research frontier Graded by a model 0% Not in cards
Science's Last Exam Agents conduct scientific research through tools, code, desktop software, laboratory recordings, and withheld references across 113 tasks in nine disciplines. The official composite equally averages six assessment scores on a zero-to-100 scale. Checks combine reference comparisons, executable tests, and literature audits. Research frontier Checked automatically 44.7 Not in cards
Apodex Discovery Solver systems of model, harness and tools run long, verifiable investigations on high-value problems scouted from 561 industries in 16 sectors. Research frontier Checked automatically 2.80 Not in cards
EurekaBench Agents run long experiments and propose mechanisms that explain observations in six sciences. Mechanisms are scored on known constraints, predictive accuracy and the 306 expert-listed insights they should support. Research frontier Graded by a model 29.8 Not in cards
PhysClosureBench Agents run 50 expert-verified physics research tasks in strong-field and attosecond physics, deciding how to generate and validate evidence. A 20-criterion score and a closure level from RC0 to RC4 grade them. Research frontier Graded by a model 6.29 Not in cards
Organic Chemistry (Anthropic) Models predict structures from spectra, design synthetic routes, predict reaction products and convert between IUPAC names, SMILES and structure images. Expert Checked automatically 86.2% System cards only
Matbench Models predict properties of inorganic materials in 13 supervised tasks built from DFT and experimental data. Scored with error or classification metrics per task. Expert Checked automatically 75.0 Fading
SciReasoner evaluation suite Models perform scientific sequence and text tasks such as format translation, extraction, property prediction and molecule design, drawn from up to 103 tasks. Expert Checked automatically 63.3% Fading
Biomedical image analysis (Anthropic) Models run quantitative analyses of CT, MRI, histopathology and other images from public competitions. Scores are scaled to the best competition results. Expert Checked automatically 72.2% System cards only
De novo protein binder design (Anthropic) Agents get a target protein structure and 24 hours to design 30 miniprotein binders. The evaluation covers 15 targets. Expert Checked automatically 85.1% System cards only
Medicinal Chemistry (Anthropic) Models see several real drug-discovery compounds and pick which had the highest or lowest measured ADME property. The set has 504 questions. Expert Checked automatically 65.3% System cards only
Morphology-to-molecule matching (Anthropic) Models match four sets of multi-channel liver cell images to the four shuffled molecule and dose treatments that produced them. Expert Checked automatically 34% System cards only
Phylogenetics (Anthropic) Models analyze phylogenetic data and tree diagrams, testing quantitative reasoning about tree structure and visual interpretation. Expert Checked automatically 79.6% System cards only
ScholarCatalyst Given a research question, retrieve the 'catalyst papers' that 184 lead authors labeled for 207 projects, searching only prior literature. Recall@20. Expert Checked automatically 53% Not in cards
Organic Chemistry V2 (Anthropic) Models predict structures from spectra, design multi-step syntheses, predict reaction products and read chemical structure images. V2 adds harder expert-recommended problems. Expert Checked automatically 69.2% System cards only
Structural Biology (Anthropic) Models answer questions about a biomolecule's function from structural data and basic tools, in multiple-choice and open-ended variants. Expert Checked automatically 79% System cards only
SuperMatBench Models answer materials chemistry questions in a QA part and solve materials tasks with tools in an Agent part. Expert Checked automatically 51.2% In use
Protein Design (Anthropic) Models generate novel protein sequences under design constraints and rank protein design libraries for experimental testing. Expert Checked automatically 42.5% System cards only
STEM Professor Bench Agents solve unpublished research problems written by professional scientists. Most problems concern theoretical physics, with some partial credit. Research frontier Graded by a model 61.8% System cards only
Anthropic internal life-sciences evals Internal suite: morphology-to-molecule matching, medicinal chemistry, protein design, binder design, biomedical image analysis, organic chemistry. Expert Checked automatically Not in cards
ArXivPhys Models answer research-level physics questions derived from recent arXiv papers, each with a reference final answer. Research frontier Checked automatically Not in cards
ProteinGym Deep mutational scanning benchmarks. The model ranks mutations by predicted effect on protein function, scored by Spearman rank correlation with lab measurements. Anthropic reports a hard subset, as the correlation times 100. Research frontier Checked automatically System cards only
ScienceAgentBench Agents write programs for 102 data-driven discovery tasks from 44 papers in four disciplines. Outputs are checked by execution and task-specific metrics. Expert Checked automatically Not in cards
SciTS Models understand and generate scientific time series in 43 tasks across 12 domains. Signals range from one to ten million points. Each task uses its own metric. Expert Checked automatically System cards only
TheoPhysEval Agents solve 50 unpublished research-level theoretical physics problems on their own, with literature search and scripts. Each final answer is checked against an expert answer, and the score is the pass rate. Research frontier Checked automatically Not in cards

Lab and data work

BenchmarkLevelScoredBest scoreStatus
BioMysteryBench Bioinformatics problems on anonymized real datasets that require real analysis with tools. Rubric-graded, with human-solvable and human-difficult splits. Expert Checked automatically 83.7% In use
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 LatchBio cross-benchmark suite of agentic biological data analysis (transcriptomics, epigenomics, variants, pharmacology) with deterministic graders. Expert Checked automatically 58% System cards only
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 195 verifiable single-cell RNA-seq analysis problems. Each pairs a data snapshot with a task and a deterministic grader. Expert Checked automatically 63.9% System cards only
SpatialBench (LatchBio) Agentic spatial-transcriptomics data analysis problems with deterministic graders. Anthropic reports a 115-problem Verified variant. Expert Checked automatically 57.6% System cards only
LABBench2 11 biology research sub-tasks (literature, figures, tables, patents, trials and more) with tool access. Macro-averaged accuracy. Expert Checked automatically 60.9% In use
SciUniverse 92 tasks in 17 chemistry, biology and materials families run in C5R's lab or its digital twin. Pass@1 averaged equally across families. Expert Checked automatically 45.3% Not in cards
BixBench Computational-biology analysis tasks (differential expression, assembly QC, cell typing) answered by agents with tools. Expert Checked automatically 93.8% Fading
BioPipelineBench (Anthropic) Agents execute bioinformatics workflows such as long-read sequence analysis, metagenome assembly and chromatin profiling with a bash tool. Expert Checked automatically 87.7% System cards only
MaCBench Vision language models answer chemistry and materials questions from images. Tasks cover reading data, understanding experiments and interpreting results. Expert Checked automatically 72.6% Not in cards
BioPipelineBench Verified (Anthropic) Agents execute bioinformatics workflows with a bash tool. Only problems that passed a validation check by external reviewers are kept. Expert Checked automatically 83.6% System cards only
ScienceWorld Agents carry out elementary-school science tasks, such as measuring conductivity or growing plants, by acting in an interactive text environment. Each task scores progress toward its goal. School Checked automatically Not in cards

Abstract puzzles and logic

BenchmarkLevelScoredBest scoreStatus
DTBench Models answer 407 multiple-choice questions on decision theory in Newcomb-like problems, where choices predict the behavior of copies. Scored by accuracy. Expert Checked automatically 99.2% System cards only
ARC-AGI-2 Models infer a rule from example grid pairs and produce the output grid for new inputs. Scored by tasks solved within two attempts. Everyday Checked automatically 95% In use
ARC-AGI Few-shot grid puzzles: infer a hidden transformation from about three examples and produce the output grid. Semi-private sets verified by ARC Prize. Everyday Checked automatically 98.5% In use
SimpleBench Models answer over 200 multiple-choice trick questions on spatial, temporal, and social reasoning that ordinary people solve. Scored by average accuracy over five runs. Everyday Checked automatically 94.9% Not in cards
ZebraLogic Models solve logic grid puzzles of controlled size, derived from constraint satisfaction problems. Scored by the share of puzzles solved fully. School Checked automatically 97.3% Fading
Misguided Attention Models get slight variations of famous riddles, paradoxes and thought experiments. A model fails when it answers the well-known original instead of the problem as stated. Everyday Graded by a model 73.7% Not in cards
KOR-Bench Models read a new rule set and apply it to questions in five task types: operation, logic, cipher, puzzle and counterfactual. Scored by accuracy against an answer key. University Checked automatically 72.9% Fading
MysteryMechanism Agents recover a hidden mathematical law from two noisy observations and a few experiments they choose. The submitted expression is run on private probes and passes if its error is under a noise-aware threshold. Expert Checked automatically 53.1% Not in cards
General365 Models solve 365 hand-written reasoning problems and 1,095 variants in eight categories that need only K-12 knowledge. Scoring mixes rule-based and model-based checks. Everyday Checked automatically 62.8% Not in cards
3SAT-Search Models find satisfying assignments for 960 3-SAT formulas across difficulty levels. A checker verifies each assignment. University Checked automatically 96.2% System cards only
TSP-Opt Models find optimal tours for 960 traveling salesman instances across 8 difficulty levels. Answers are checked for optimality. University Checked automatically 56.4% System cards only
AutoLogi Models solve open-ended logic puzzles in English and Chinese. Generated verifier programs check each answer against the puzzle constraints. School Checked automatically 89.5% Dropped
BA-Calendar Models find a common meeting slot for several people under constraints such as time zones, buffer time and priority. 2,000 problems checked by code. Everyday Checked automatically 67.7% System cards only
Novel logical reasoning problems expert evaluation (Z.ai) Human experts score model answers to new multi-step logic problems with a fixed scoring standard for each question. University Graded by people 62.0 System cards only
ProcBench Models follow explicit step-by-step procedures to answer questions, which isolates multi-step inference from knowledge and search. Everyday Checked automatically 96.6% Fading
Sudoku-Bench Models solve Sudoku variants with unusual rule sets that need creative, multi-step deduction. Scored by the share of puzzles solved. Competition Checked automatically 56% Dropped
DeepPHY Agentic vision-language models act in simulated physics environments of varied difficulty that test understanding of basic physical principles. Everyday Checked automatically Not in cards