Benchmark Almanac

ATLAS (OpenCompass)

GPT-5 42.9% leads since Nov 2025 Not in model cards

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.

A test set takes full submissions through a Hugging Face space. Not Handshake's ATLAS suite or Exa's ATLAS.

In the authors’ words

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to performance saturation on many established benchmarks, questioning their ability to distinguish frontier models. Concurrently, existing high-difficulty benchmarks often suffer from narrow disciplinary focus, oversimplified answer formats, and vulnerability to data contamination, creating a fidelity gap with real-world scientific inquiry. To address these challenges, we introduce ATLAS (AGI-Oriented Testbed for Logical Application in Science), a large-scale, high-difficulty, and cross-disciplinary evaluation suite composed of approximately 800 original problems. Developed by domain experts (PhD-level and above), ATLAS spans seven core scientific fields: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, earth science, and materials science. Its key features include: (1) High Originality and Contamination Resistance, with all questions newly created or substantially adapted to prevent test data leakage; (2) Cross-Disciplinary Focus, designed to assess models' ability to integrate knowledge and reason across scientific domains; (3) High-Fidelity Answers, prioritizing complex, open-ended answers involving multi-step reasoning and LaTeX-formatted expressions over simple multiple-choice questions; and (4) Rigorous Quality Control, employing a multi-stage process of expert peer review and adversarial testing to ensure question difficulty, scientific value, and correctness. We also propose a robust evaluation paradigm using a panel of LLM judges for automated, nuanced assessment of complex answers. Preliminary results on leading models demonstrate ATLAS's effectiveness in differentiating their advanced scientific reasoning capabilities. We plan to develop ATLAS into a long-term, open, community-driven platform to provide a reliable "ruler" for progress toward Artificial General Intelligence.

Abstract of ATLAS: A High-Difficulty, Multidisciplinary Benchmark for Frontier Scientific Reasoning (arXiv:2511.14366, CC0)
Made by OpenCompass (Shanghai AI Laboratory) and collaborators Released Nov 2025 Science questions Public tasks plus a private test set Last model added Aug 2025 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
Research frontier Researchers, on open problems or tasks that take days
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
5
Models scored on its own leaderboard

GPT-5 leads with 42.9% among models released by Aug 2025

Best score per model from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on 2 Nov 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best.

The newest model with a score here came out in Aug 2025, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 GPT-5 high 42.9%
  2. 2 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 35.3%
  3. 3 Grok 4 34.1%
  4. 4 o3 high 33.8%
  5. 5 DeepSeek-R1 May 2025 26.4%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-5 42.9% high Aug 2025 Official leaderboard
2 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 35.3% Jun 2025 Official leaderboard
3 Grok 4 34.1% Jul 2025 Official leaderboard
4 o3 33.8% high Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
5 DeepSeek-R1 May 2025 26.4% May 2025 Official leaderboard

Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

OpenAI
Own leaderboard Not tested since Nov 2025
GPT-5 42.9%

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-5 Gemini 2.5 Pro o3 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-5 Gemini 2.5 Pro

No lab model card reports it yet

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.

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