Benchmark Almanac

GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol ranks first on 34 of the 412 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

OpenAI Released July 9th, 2026 Family GPT-5 The lab's model card Compare with others
435
Benchmarks with a score
34
Ranked first, out of five or more models
104
In the top three
OpenAI Jul 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol

Closed weights Flagship

163.0 #13 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 162.6 #19 of 404
  • MMMU-Pro 84.6% #1 /90
  • DeepSWE 72.7% #4 /28
  • AutomationBench 28.8% #11 /42

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AA-LCR Extended 79.5% #1 of 49 Official leaderboard
HLE Extended 77.3% #1 of 31 Official leaderboard
SEA-HELM 77.0 #3 of 71 Official leaderboard
OpenAI MRCR v2 83.5% #2 of 47 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,485 #19 of 335 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 80.8 #8 of 120 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric 80.7% #3 of 45 Official leaderboard
Wer wird Millionär? LLM Benchmark 358333.0 #6 of 77 Official leaderboard
DesignArena ASCII Art 1,305 #7 of 77 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 81.7 #11 of 119 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search V2 88.5% #2 of 21 Official leaderboard
ELI5 Arena 1,689 #2 of 18 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 93.8% #12 of 103 Official leaderboard
Document Arena 1,486 #5 of 39 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric V2 81.1% #4 of 27 Official leaderboard
Lech Mazur Creative Writing 2.42 #8 of 50 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 69.2% #9 of 56 Official leaderboard
StudyArena Text 1,263 #18 of 85 Official leaderboard
Hemingway-bench 1,057 #9 of 42 Official leaderboard
Last Translation Benchmark 28.1 #8 of 36 Official leaderboard
GraphWalks 90.7% #6 of 27 Lab model card
Global MMLU Lite 94.1% #11 of 43 Official leaderboard
Opening Lines Arena 1,576 #4 of 15 Official leaderboard
Joke Arena 1,519 #8 of 25 Official leaderboard
FACTS Benchmark Suite 70.6% #8 of 23 Official leaderboard
Continual Learning Exam 33.2% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 4 1,236 #13 of 32 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 48% #56 of 129 Official leaderboard
Antidote 1,027 #18 of 36 Official leaderboard
HLE-Diamond 41% #10 of 20 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 27.3% #55 of 107 Official leaderboard
FACTS Multimodal 46.4% #13 of 23 Official leaderboard
Corp Speak Arena 1,481 #13 of 22 Official leaderboard
HUMAINE 23 #35 of 50 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding v2 61.9% #18 of 25 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 12.4% #85 of 104 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 100% #4 of 212 Epoch AI run
Riemann-bench 83.2% #1 of 20 Official leaderboard
ProofBench 77% #3 of 59 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 92.5% #6 of 98 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 0.12 #6 of 82 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 93.5% #19 of 229 Epoch AI run
Verifying the Verifiers (Project APE CRED benchmark) 99% #2 of 23 Official leaderboard
ASI-Bench 55.8 #1 of 11 Official leaderboard
FrontierChallenge 20.6% #1 of 11 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 89.1% #9 of 86 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 97.5% #10 of 95 Official leaderboard
DTBench 95.7% #20 of 180 Official leaderboard
Surface Evolver Bench 93.1% #3 of 25 Official leaderboard
HorizonMath 11.5% #1 of 8 Official leaderboard
ResearchClawBench 34.8 #3 of 23 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 82.9% #10 of 68 Official leaderboard
Leipzig Benchmark 90% #3 of 19 Official leaderboard
PHYSICS-Verified 90.4% #3 of 19 Official leaderboard
ExplorationBench 88.1% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 59.8% #7 of 26 Official leaderboard
PhysClosureBench 5.83 #2 of 7 Official leaderboard
ProofBench v1.1 83% #15 of 52 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 64.8% #31 of 106 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench-Science 22.4% #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
BixBench3 48.0 #6 of 20 Official leaderboard
Into the Unknown 0% #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
CritPt 74.9% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
CritPt v2 74.9% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
Human Behavior Bench 79.5 #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
PaperBenchX 9.68% #4 of 10 Official leaderboard
FrontierPhysics 7.10% #9 of 22 Official leaderboard
MysteryMechanism 33.3% #13 of 31 Official leaderboard
BioMysteryBench 71.1% #13 of 30 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 43.3% #13 of 27 Official leaderboard
BTF-3 0.14 #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
EurekaBench 19.4 #4 of 7 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Erdős 0% #10 of 15 Official leaderboard
Apodex Discovery 2.27 #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
Prophet Arena 84.8 #22 of 24 Official leaderboard
SciUniverse 9.40% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
IOI (Vals) 86.7% #2 of 55 Official leaderboard
SlopCodeBench 32.1% #1 of 22 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 89.4% #6 of 112 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,365 #9 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 1,320 #10 of 151 Official leaderboard
DesignArena SVG 1,305 #7 of 103 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 76.4 #1 of 14 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,339 #12 of 143 Official leaderboard
DAXBench v2 91.5% #4 of 47 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,322 #11 of 118 Official leaderboard
AndroidBench 90.8% #3 of 32 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,372 #13 of 136 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 2,410 #13 of 126 Official leaderboard
ReactBench 46.7% #3 of 28 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 91.2% #5 of 45 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Game Dev 1,213 #3 of 27 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,327 #17 of 139 Official leaderboard
GSO-Bench 76.5% #4 of 30 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 72.7% #4 of 28 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,617 #16 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
Code Migration 52.9% #12 of 78 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench-Live 70.3% #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
Legacy-Bench 60% #1 of 6 Official leaderboard
Senior SWE-Bench 34.7% #4 of 23 Official leaderboard
DesignArena React Native 1,228 #11 of 56 Official leaderboard
SWE-sweep 4.70% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
QwenSVGBench 1,758 #1 of 5 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 64.6% #17 of 81 Lab model card
Doc2Harness 43.8% #4 of 19 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Full Stack 1,237 #11 of 49 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,615 #29 of 128 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to HTML 1,231 #12 of 51 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Android (Kotlin) 1,219 #11 of 46 Official leaderboard
SWE Refactor Bench 28.5% #2 of 8 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,606 #14 of 55 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Codebase QnA Extended 24.7% #10 of 38 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Overall 1,233 #20 of 74 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 1.1 36.2% #3 of 11 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 80.5% #33 of 120 Official leaderboard
APEX-SWE 48% #18 of 65 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Godot Game Dev 1,239 #7 of 24 Official leaderboard
GameDevBench 63.7% #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Science 40.3% #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas 46% #7 of 22 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Test Writing 45.9% #7 of 22 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench 1.00% #8 of 25 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Frontend Web App 1,226 #17 of 53 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to Frontend 1,235 #10 of 31 Official leaderboard
GBAEval 52.6% #7 of 21 Official leaderboard
RSI-Exam 43.3% #6 of 18 Official leaderboard
GameCraft-Bench 60.5% #5 of 15 Official leaderboard
MiMo Visual Coding 73.4% #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v1.1 80.0 #1 of 3 Lab model card
SWE-bench Verified Extended 63.3% #15 of 44 Official leaderboard
TasteVal 59.0× #7 of 20 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench almost solved 15.5% #9 of 25 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench tests passed 69.9% #9 of 25 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 2.0 28.9% #12 of 32 Official leaderboard
SWE-rebench 62.3% #5 of 13 Official leaderboard
MLS-Bench 46.2% #6 of 15 Official leaderboard
τ^τ-bench 22% #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
MacroscopeBench 77.8% #7 of 16 Official leaderboard
SWE-Clar 57% #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 20% #12 of 26 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE 32.2% #12 of 25 Official leaderboard
WeirdML v3 15% #13 of 27 Official leaderboard
QwenBlenderBench 68.6% #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
ReviewBench 70.2% #2 of 4 Official leaderboard
OpenRSI Index Isaac Lab PegInsert Reward Search 0.60 #1 of 2 Official leaderboard
OpenRSI Index Kev Decision Architecture 0.29 #1 of 2 Official leaderboard
OpenRSI Index Marin Scaling Ladder 1.01 #1 of 2 Official leaderboard
OpenRSI Index MInference 32-Head Sparse Prefill Kernel 1.54× #1 of 2 Official leaderboard
Vals RSI Index 0.24 #14 of 27 Official leaderboard
AutoResearchExam 0.51 #7 of 12 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 41.7% #13 of 21 cursor.com, via Epoch AI
PostTrainBench 1.2 31% #13 of 21 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 4.0 41.7% #14 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 95.5% #12 of 18 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 Hard 82.4% #12 of 18 Official leaderboard
TestPrism 23.3% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
Brokk Power Ranking 7.60 #13 of 19 Official leaderboard
Vision2Web 73.5% #7 of 10 Official leaderboard
OpenDesign Arena 77.6 #15 of 21 Official leaderboard
QwenQoderBench 53.8% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
QwenReactBench 1,564 #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
QwenSWEBench 73.5% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
SWE-Together 57.8% #19 of 22 Official leaderboard
LibraryDesignBench 39.5 #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
MiMo Code Bench 59.3% #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
MirrorCode 20% #37 of 39 Epoch AI run
OpenRSI Index ACE Playbook Inspection and Repair 0.70 #2 of 2 Official leaderboard
OpenRSI Index Learnability-Aware Long/Short CoT Adaptation 46.1% #2 of 2 Official leaderboard
OpenRSI Index Molmo2 Video-Pointing Inference Strategy 0.46 #2 of 2 Official leaderboard
OpenRSI Index MolmoWeb Interaction Context Allocation 0.61 #2 of 2 Official leaderboard
OpenRSI Index ReasonIR Difficulty Curriculum 0.22 #2 of 2 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BrowseComp 92.2% #2 of 81 Lab model card
LMArena Search Arena 1,255 #1 of 37 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Poker 30.3 #1 of 31 Official leaderboard
WildClawBench 67.2% #1 of 31 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 91.9% #2 of 56 Lab model card
LLM Chess 1,550 #5 of 123 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 68% #4 of 93 Epoch AI run
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 60% #2 of 25 Official leaderboard
CAR-bench 70% #1 of 12 Official leaderboard
BALROG 60% #3 of 33 Official leaderboard
Web Context (Nimble) 80% #1 of 11 Official leaderboard
BabaIsBench 100% #3 of 32 Official leaderboard
Bench on the Clocktower 58% #1 of 10 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 58% #3 of 29 Lab model card
Mystery Game Puzzles 58% #10 of 84 Epoch AI run
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0 67.2% #2 of 15 Official leaderboard
ScienceBoard 42.6% #2 of 15 Official leaderboard
GameHorizon 74.8 #5 of 37 Official leaderboard
CEO-Bench $11,313,982 #3 of 19 Official leaderboard
τ³-bench Banking 46.9% #4 of 25 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 3.0 34.6% #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
RuneBench 5.90 #14 of 76 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 4699.0 #25 of 133 Official leaderboard
DuelLab GameBench 2 80.1 #11 of 57 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 354 #8 of 41 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 350 #8 of 40 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 2.0 84.2% #12 of 57 Official leaderboard
CLASHarness 24.5% #3 of 14 Official leaderboard
Era by Eon 69.7% #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 443 #10 of 39 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 28.8% #11 of 42 Official leaderboard
ApprenticeBench 26% #5 of 18 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 522 #11 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 1,106 #11 of 39 Official leaderboard
Agent Arena 4.63% #16 of 56 Official leaderboard
RecreationBench 42.1% #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 218 #12 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Coin Game 416 #12 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 1,132 #13 of 42 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 356 #14 of 42 Official leaderboard
TraceTrial-Bench 76.1% #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
Brood War Bench 72.2% #2 of 6 Official leaderboard
EBR-bench 44.8% #11 of 31 Epoch AI run
BrowseComp Extended 32.3% #15 of 42 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Extended 37.4% #16 of 44 Official leaderboard
Clocktower Bench 1,591 #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
Learn2Play Bench 74.3 #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-Science 50.1% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.1 38.5% #16 of 43 Official leaderboard
MCPMark Verified 92.9% #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
Realtime-Bench 18% #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
MCP Atlas 81.8% #14 of 37 Official leaderboard
Time Horizon Index: KSP 23.8% #5 of 13 Official leaderboard
Vals Web Search Index 49.1% #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-3 7.78% #11 of 27 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 339 #16 of 39 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 2.0 62.6% #8 of 19 Lab model card
Terminal-Bench 4.0 37.3% #17 of 40 Official leaderboard
MyPCBench 55.4% #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 923 #18 of 40 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Go 1,005 #18 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 585 #18 of 39 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 25 #90 of 188 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 637 #19 of 39 Official leaderboard
MobileWorld 40.8% #9 of 18 Official leaderboard
SaaS-Bench 29.2% #2 of 4 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 353 #23 of 43 Official leaderboard
CUA-bench 8.33% #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 885 #27 of 41 Official leaderboard
DuetBench 990 #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
TextQuests 26.9 #26 of 28 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 2.0 (Aug 2026) 27.3% #3 of 3 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
E-Commerce Bench 14.3 #1 of 19 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 60.4% #4 of 72 Official leaderboard
TRLawBench 9.65 #2 of 34 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 87% #9 of 138 Official leaderboard
PhysicianBench 50% #1 of 13 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 93.1% #4 of 50 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 72.3% #7 of 76 Official leaderboard
MMEnterprise-Bench 68% #1 of 9 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2 63.7% #8 of 65 Official leaderboard
E-Bench (Tencent) 80.6% #1 of 8 Official leaderboard
E-Bench-Code (Tencent) 83.3% #1 of 8 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 73.1% #9 of 71 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 48.1% #13 of 93 Official leaderboard
Management Consulting Tasks (OpenAI) 43.2% #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
MedXpertQA MM Extended 64.7% #6 of 41 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $9,619 #11 of 67 Official leaderboard
FoodTruck Bench $53,229 #10 of 59 Official leaderboard
DesignArena HTML Slides 1,181 #5 of 28 Official leaderboard
OR-License 84.5% #2 of 11 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench v2 72% #6 of 32 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 30.6% #6 of 31 Official leaderboard
RCM-Bench-1 91.2% #4 of 20 Official leaderboard
BankerToolBench v1.1 29% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
PRBench 50.5% #10 of 48 Official leaderboard
CHI-Bench 25.3% #5 of 23 Official leaderboard
LMBuild 64.9% #4 of 18 Official leaderboard
BlenderWorld 67.7 #3 of 13 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 74.8% #30 of 129 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.1 58% #12 of 49 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro 60.2% #3 of 12 Official leaderboard
MerchantBench 52.9 #2 of 8 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,748 #7 of 27 Lab model card
Tuesday Work Index 61.1 #12 of 44 Official leaderboard
EngiWorld 38.6% #2 of 7 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 67.3% #26 of 87 Official leaderboard
APEX-Accounting 62.2% #15 of 49 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena $7,821 #10 of 32 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 85.2% #31 of 97 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 64.4% #39 of 119 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 31.1% #30 of 84 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 66.5% #18 of 50 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Python-PPTX Slides 1,198 #13 of 36 Official leaderboard
CommerceAgentBench 51.4% #5 of 13 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 53.8% #31 of 80 Official leaderboard
LifeSci Diamond 5.50% #7 of 18 Official leaderboard
GDPval Extended 1.30% #17 of 43 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Spreadsheet 1,210 #14 of 35 Official leaderboard
HW-Bench 30% #6 of 15 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Finance 11.8% #16 of 39 Official leaderboard
Bedside Bench 91.1% #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
MedCode 44% #41 of 96 Official leaderboard
JobBench 45.4% #7 of 16 Official leaderboard
Short Form Bench $2,410 #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
ATLAS-Finance 4.00% #5 of 11 Official leaderboard
ATLAS-Finance v1.1.0 4.00% #5 of 11 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Healthcare 4.40% #17 of 37 Official leaderboard
FrontierFinance 46.8% #8 of 17 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Consensus 95.5% #8 of 17 Lab model card
HealthBench Hard 33.1% #11 of 21 Lab model card
EnterpriseBench: CoreCraft 46.2% #27 of 51 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 51.4% #33 of 61 Collected by Epoch AI, source not named
APEX-Agents 1.1 65.2% #36 of 65 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro V2 33.3% #4 of 7 Official leaderboard
HealthBench Professional 60.5% #15 of 26 Lab model card
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 2.50% #47 of 80 Official leaderboard
DesignArena PDF 1,173 #22 of 37 Official leaderboard
Genspark Slides Benchmark 67% #6 of 10 Official leaderboard
BenchCAD 70.6% #7 of 11 Lab model card
Parametric CAD Bench 30% #7 of 11 Official leaderboard
YC-Bench $728,001 #41 of 59 Official leaderboard
HealthBench 57% #22 of 31 Lab model card
Agents' Last Exam v1.1 30.3% #11 of 14 Official leaderboard
CoWorkBench 71.5% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MMMU-Pro 84.6% #1 of 90 Lab model card
ZeroBench 54.6% #1 of 76 Official leaderboard
PerceptionBench (Moonshot) 59.7% #1 of 16 Official leaderboard
ParseBench 74.4% #3 of 44 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro Extended 51.9% #3 of 38 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,288 #14 of 136 Official leaderboard
BabyVision 88.9% #3 of 27 Official leaderboard
AgenticVBench 38.4% #1 of 9 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 2,252 #7 of 56 Official leaderboard
RoTA-Bench 17% #1 of 8 Official leaderboard
ClockBench 68.3% #5 of 37 Official leaderboard
Chartography 45% #6 of 43 Official leaderboard
ExtractBench 93.8% #5 of 27 Official leaderboard
BVB 71.8 #9 of 45 Official leaderboard
Code2Video Benchmark 1,548 #4 of 19 Official leaderboard
CharXiv Extended 82.9% #9 of 38 Official leaderboard
ArtifactArena 1,165 #7 of 21 Official leaderboard
InteractiveBench 30.8% #4 of 12 Official leaderboard
Furniture Assembly Benchmark 56.7% #12 of 35 Official leaderboard
Drone-Bench 76.1% #7 of 19 Official leaderboard
GlobeBench 23.6% #7 of 19 Official leaderboard
4DCodeBench 0.65 #6 of 16 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 2 33.6% #15 of 38 Official leaderboard
EnigmaEval 37.1% #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
Instrument reading (Google DeepMind) 61.5% #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
Progress classification (Google DeepMind) 46.2% #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
Human proximity (Google DeepMind robotics) 83.4% #2 of 4 Official leaderboard
GeoBench 73% #25 of 48 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code to Video 1,137 #16 of 29 Official leaderboard
CodeCap-Bench 50.0 #4 of 7 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Sixth Sense 30% #22 of 34 Official leaderboard
VibeVideoBench 3.32 #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
OmniParseBench 87.8 #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
1H-VideoQA 62.4% #17 of 20 Official leaderboard
RoboDojo-RC Tier 1 14.9% #8 of 9 Official leaderboard
CineRecon 35.9 #11 of 12 Official leaderboard
QwenVisualOffice 29.5% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CyberBench (Vals) 88.1% #1 of 26 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 61.1% #4 of 90 Official leaderboard
World-Class Bio 64.4% #4 of 74 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 76.3% #5 of 86 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 109.4 #13 of 185 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 70.6% #5 of 71 Official leaderboard
KORA 68.7% #3 of 42 Official leaderboard
CVE-Bench 94.1% #1 of 14 Lab model card
GeneBench Pro 31.5% #1 of 12 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 76.3% #4 of 44 Official leaderboard
ProtocolQA Open-Ended 44.1% #3 of 27 Lab model card
scBench-Long 29.6% #3 of 27 Official leaderboard
dfbench 65.7% #2 of 18 Official leaderboard
SRE-Bench 30.5% #5 of 35 Official leaderboard
Agent JSK 100% #1 of 7 Lab model card
PatchEval 83.9% #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
PatchEval-Verified 83.9% #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
Tacit Knowledge and Troubleshooting 82.2% #5 of 30 Lab model card
SpatialBench-Long 37.5% #5 of 27 Official leaderboard
VCT-v2 49.4% #5 of 25 Official leaderboard
TroubleshootingBench 48% #4 of 20 Lab model card
Cyber Range 83.3% #2 of 10 Lab model card
xdev-bench-hard 100% #1 of 5 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 35.3 #6 of 29 Official leaderboard
ExploitGym 33.7% #4 of 18 Official leaderboard
Capture the Flag (Internal) 97.1% #1 of 4 Lab model card
Hard-negative protein binding prediction 7.60% #1 of 4 Lab model card
Multimodal Troubleshooting Virology 55.5% #7 of 27 Lab model card
ABC Bench Liquid-Handling Robot 98.7% #9 of 34 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 83.6% #9 of 34 Lab model card
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 61.3% #8 of 30 Official leaderboard
Dictatorship Eval 85.4% #6 of 20 Official leaderboard
DrugDiscoveryBench 56.5% #6 of 20 Official leaderboard
EpiBench 25.8% #9 of 27 Official leaderboard
WellnessBench 57% #4 of 12 Official leaderboard
Last Secure Code Benchmark 24.7% #2 of 6 Official leaderboard
DistressBench 73.6% #15 of 42 Official leaderboard
HackBench 53.0 #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
OncologyBench 18.7% #12 of 30 Official leaderboard
PCT (Polarized Contrastive Pairs) 41.7% #19 of 46 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Refuse 74% #29 of 69 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 20.1% #31 of 73 Official leaderboard
AAV Capsid Packaging Prediction (OpenAI) 0.53 #3 of 7 Lab model card
BioSecBench-Surveillance 47.3% #12 of 27 Official leaderboard
CyScenarioBench 28% #8 of 17 Lab model card
VariantBench 35.3% #13 of 27 Official leaderboard
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) 53.5% #15 of 31 Lab model card
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 37.2% #15 of 30 Official leaderboard
SecIT Bench 75.4% #13 of 26 Official leaderboard
Destructive action avoidance 83% #4 of 8 Lab model card
UK AISI cyber ranges 70% #2 of 4 Lab model card
ReproBAIT 85% #1 of 2 Lab model card
UK AISI narrow cyber tasks 95% #1 of 2 Lab model card
BioTIER Permit 99.3% #38 of 69 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Function 35.5% #15 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 37.3% #17 of 30 Official leaderboard
VIALS 2 26.5% #8 of 14 Official leaderboard
LifeSciBench 59.9% #3 of 5 Lab model card
MedChemBench (OpenAI) 48.3% #3 of 5 Lab model card
UK AISI unprompted sabotage evaluation 0% #3 of 5 Lab model card
MetagenomicsBench 31.3% #17 of 26 Official leaderboard
Prompt injection attacks in search and function calling 91% #2 of 3 Lab model card
First-Person Fairness evaluation 0.98% #7 of 10 Lab model card
Instruction hierarchy attacks 99.9% #5 of 7 Lab model card
DNA sequence design for transcription factor binding 13.7% #3 of 4 Lab model card
CoT-Control 1.30% #7 of 9 Lab model card
Prompt injection robustness 96.2% #7 of 7 Lab model card
UK AISI sabotage continuation evaluation 1.00% #4 of 4 Lab model card
FrontierCyber 9.64% #3 of 3 Lab model card

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SAGE (Vals) 52.6% #6 of 81 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 68.7 #12 of 151 Official leaderboard
LMCA 58.5% #12 of 147 Official leaderboard
Political Science LLM Benchmark 69.2% #5 of 42 Official leaderboard
Vals Multimodal Index 72.6% #4 of 33 Official leaderboard
CompassRank 80.8 #2 of 14 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 48.8 #12 of 68 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 75.9 #27 of 152 Official leaderboard
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index 66.4 #11 of 53 Official leaderboard
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 58.9 #2 of 8 Lab model card
CAIS Risk Index 44.5 #23 of 67 Official leaderboard
Vals Science Index 41.5% #11 of 25 Official leaderboard
Xbench 18.2 #14 of 17 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 162.6, in line with its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 17 capability results OpenAI reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 159.1 to 166.1. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 13 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
Agents' Last Exam 53.6% Agents' Last Exam (Sol, xhigh, code mode) 30.6% Leaderboard, xhigh, codex +23 pts
AutomationBench 18.1% AutomationBench (Sol, max) 28.8% Leaderboard, max −11 pts
OpenAI MRCR v2 91.5% OpenAI MRCR v2 8-needle 256K-512K 91.5% (512K-1M 73.8%) 83.5% Leaderboard, 8-needle, 128K to 256K bin, max reasoning +8.0 pts
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 68.4% SecureBio Human Pathogen Capabilities Test, strongest reported configuration (9.1.1.8) 76.3% Leaderboard, max −7.9 pts
World-Class Bio 68.3% SecureBio World-Class Bio, strongest reported configuration (9.1.1.8) 64.4% Leaderboard, max +3.9 pts
GeneBench Pro 28.7% GeneBench Pro (Sol, max) 31.5% Leaderboard, pro −2.8 pts
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 60% SecureBio Molecular Biology Capabilities Test, strongest reported configuration (9.1.1.8) 61.1% Leaderboard, max −1.1 pts
GPQA Diamond 94.6% GPQA Diamond 93.5% Epoch AI run, max +1.1 pts
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 89% FrontierMath Tier 1-3 (v2) 89.1% Leaderboard, max; task version 2.0.0, Epoch Same
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 83% FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2) 82.9% Leaderboard, max; task version 2.0.0, Epoch Same
DeepSWE 72.7% DeepSWE v1.1 (Sol, max) 72.7% Leaderboard, max, mini-swe-agent Same
ARC-AGI-3 7.78% ARC-AGI-3 7.78% Leaderboard, max, standard Same
Management Consulting Tasks (OpenAI) 43.2% Management Consulting Tasks (Internal) 43.2% Leaderboard Same

OpenAI's models over time

OpenAI's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna GPT-5.4 Mini GPT-5.2 Pro GPT-5 GPT-5 nano GPT-4.1 nano 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GPT-6.1 Terra GPT-6 Luna

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system cards

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 50 of them aren't in the launch post.

Monitorability

GPT-5.6 System Card Jul 9, 2026