Benchmark Almanac

New York University

We track 21 benchmarks and 1 arena that New York University made or helped make. Its models are on its lab page.

1 in use 20 with public code 18 with a leaderboard here

Arena leaderboards

Top five in each of its 1 arena with three or more rated models, the most rated first.

Benchmarks

Name Kind Released Best score Status
GPQA Diamond 198 graduate-level 'Google-proof' multiple-choice questions in biology, chemistry and physics. Science questions Nov 2023 96.5% In use
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for QA) Ambiguous and disambiguated questions probing social stereotypes across nine attributes. Reports accuracy and bias scores. Bias, fairness and politics Oct 2021 96.6% System cards only
LiveBench Models answer monthly refreshed questions across math, coding, reasoning, language, instruction following, and data analysis. Scored automatically against objective ground truth. Other Jun 2024 84.9% Dropped
CVBench Models answer 2,638 manually checked 2D and 3D vision questions built from ADE20K, COCO, and Omni3D. Scoring is accuracy. Spatial reasoning and counting Jun 2024 88% Fading
CoT-Control Pairs GPQA, HLE, MMLU-Pro, BFCL and SWE-bench problems with instructions on what the chain of thought may contain. Measures compliance. Deception and alignment Mar 2026 83.7% System cards only
GPQA Main Models answer the 448 question main set of GPQA, graduate level biology, chemistry and physics questions written by experts. Scored by accuracy. Science questions Nov 2023 80.3% Dropped
VSI-Bench Models watch egocentric videos of 288 indoor scenes and answer over 5,000 questions on object counts, distances, sizes, room layout and route planning. Spatial reasoning and counting Dec 2024 69.5% Fading
QuALITY Models answer multiple-choice questions about English passages that average about 5,000 tokens. Scoring is accuracy. Reasoning over long documents Dec 2021 90.5% Dropped
MMVP Models answer 300 questions about 150 image pairs that CLIP embeds as near duplicates. A pair counts only when both answers are right. Spatial reasoning and counting Jan 2024 87% Fading
SQuALITY Models write question-focused summaries of public-domain short stories. Outputs are scored against human-written reference summaries with ROUGE. Reasoning over long documents May 2022 24.3% Dropped
MindCube Models answer 21,154 multiple choice questions about scenes seen from a few views. Questions test positions, orientations, and what-if movements. Spatial reasoning and counting Jun 2025 47.6% Fading
CrowS-Pairs Models choose between paired sentences that differ only in a stereotyped social group. Measures preference for the stereotyped sentence. Bias, fairness and politics Sep 2020 51.3% System cards only
GPQA Extended Models answer all 546 GPQA questions, graduate level biology, chemistry and physics questions written by experts. Scored by accuracy. Science questions Nov 2023 48.8% System cards only
WSC Models decide whether a pronoun refers to a given noun phrase in sentences that need commonsense to resolve. Scored by accuracy. Commonsense May 2019 86.9% Dropped
XNLI Models classify entailment, contradiction or neutral for sentence pairs translated from MultiNLI into 15 languages. Reasoning in many languages Sep 2018 45.3% Dropped
SuperGLUE Models solve eight English language understanding tasks, including BoolQ, COPA, MultiRC, ReCoRD, RTE, WiC, and WSC. Scored by the average task score. Language reasoning May 2019 90.4% Not in cards
NYU CTF Bench Agents solve 200 capture the flag challenges from seven years of CSAW competitions. Six categories cover crypto, forensics, pwn, reverse, web and misc. Each runs in Docker. Capture-the-flag challenges Jun 2024 22% Not in cards
PaintBench Image editing models do precise single-answer edits in 20 operations such as geometric transforms, color changes and symbolic edits. Procedural generation gives deterministic checks. General visual questions May 2026 16.3% Not in cards
VSI-Bench-Debiased Models answer the 2,362 VSI-Bench questions left after removing 2,768 that text-only models could solve from answer priors or world knowledge. Spatial reasoning and counting Nov 2025 41.5% Not in cards
BLiMP Language models must assign higher probability to the grammatical sentence in each of 67,000 minimal pairs covering English syntax, morphology and semantics. Commonsense Dec 2019 Not in cards
VSI-SUPER Video models watch arbitrarily long streams and must recall where objects appeared (VSR) or keep counting objects across scenes (VSC). Video lengths run from 10 minutes to 4 hours. Long videos Nov 2025 Not in cards