Benchmark Almanac

Drone-Bench

Claude Opus 5.5 97.3% leads since Sep 2026 Not in model cards

Agent writes code for a small real drone across five tasks (reconstruct, localize, navigate, detect, follow). Each scored against a human-written baseline.

Best of 10 submissions per run counts. Two tasks use held-out sets. Harness and data are not released.

Made by Andon Labs Released Jul 2026 Real robots Tasks kept private Last model added Sep 2026 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Code A program or patch run against tests.
Paper Leaderboard
19
Models scored on its own leaderboard

Claude Opus 5.5 leads with 97.3%

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.

19 models. Scroll sideways for the rest.

  1. 97.3 Claude Opus 5.5
  2. 95.0 GPT-6 Astra
  3. 91.2 Claude Fable 5.1
  4. 86.9 Claude Opus 5
  5. 84.3 Claude Fable 5
  6. 82.3 Claude Opus 4.8
  7. 76.1 GPT-5.6 Sol
  8. 68.9 Gemini 3.1 Pro
  9. 68.5 Claude Opus 4.7
  10. 63.9 GPT-5.5
  11. 59.2 Claude Opus 4.5
  12. 55.0 o3
  13. 51.7 GPT-5.2
  14. 41.0 Claude Opus 4
  15. 37.8 GPT-5
  16. 33.9 Gemini 2.5 Pro
  17. 31.9 o1
  18. 20.4 GPT-4o
  19. 14.0 GPT-4o
  1. 1 Claude Opus 5.5 97.3%
  2. 2 GPT-6 Astra 95%
  3. 3 Claude Fable 5.1 91.2%
  4. 4 Claude Opus 5 86.9%
  5. 5 Claude Fable 5 84.3%
  6. 6 Claude Opus 4.8 82.3%
  7. 7 GPT-5.6 Sol 76.1%
  8. 8 Gemini 3.1 Pro 68.9%
  9. 9 Claude Opus 4.7 68.5%
  10. 10 GPT-5.5 63.9%
  11. 11 Claude Opus 4.5 59.2%
  12. 12 o3 55%
  13. 13 GPT-5.2 51.7%
  14. 14 Claude Opus 4 41%
  15. 15 GPT-5 37.8%
  16. 16 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 33.9%
  17. 17 o1 31.9%
  18. 18 GPT-4o Nov 2024 20.4%
  19. 19 GPT-4o May 2024 14%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Claude Opus 5.5 97.3% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
2 GPT-6 Astra 95% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
3 Claude Fable 5.1 91.2% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
4 Claude Opus 5 86.9% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
5 Claude Fable 5 84.3% Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
6 Claude Opus 4.8 82.3% May 2026 Official leaderboard
7 GPT-5.6 Sol 76.1% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
8 Gemini 3.1 Pro 68.9% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
9 Claude Opus 4.7 68.5% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
10 GPT-5.5 63.9% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
11 Claude Opus 4.5 59.2% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
12 o3 55% Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
13 GPT-5.2 51.7% Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
14 Claude Opus 4 41% May 2025 Official leaderboard
15 GPT-5 37.8% Aug 2025 Official leaderboard
16 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 33.9% Jun 2025 Official leaderboard
17 o1 31.9% Dec 2024 Official leaderboard
18 GPT-4o Nov 2024 20.4% Nov 2024 Official leaderboard
19 GPT-4o May 2024 14% May 2024 Official leaderboard

5 models have held number one since its release in Jul 2026

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

Anthropic OpenAI
Own leaderboard Passed 85% in Jul 2026, by Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5.5 97.3%

The best score passed 85% in Jul 2026

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% 2024 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 4.8 Gemini 3.1 Pro Claude Opus 4.5 o3 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Opus 5

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