Benchmark Almanac

FACTS Parametric V2

GPT-6 Astra 83.8% leads since Oct 2026 Not in model cards

Models answer closed-book factoid questions from their own knowledge, without tools. A judge model grades each answer.

Kaggle renamed the benchmark to Facts V2 Parametric and published version 2 on 2026-10-27 with 20 models. No changelog was found, so what changed is unknown. This follows the FACTS Search V2 pattern.

In the authors’ words

We introduce The FACTS Leaderboard, an online leaderboard suite and associated set of benchmarks that comprehensively evaluates the ability of language models to generate factually accurate text across diverse scenarios. The suite provides a holistic measure of factuality by aggregating the performance of models on four distinct sub-leaderboards: (1) FACTS Multimodal, which measures the factuality of responses to image-based questions; (2) FACTS Parametric, which assesses models' world knowledge by answering closed-book factoid questions from internal parameters; (3) FACTS Search, which evaluates factuality in information-seeking scenarios, where the model must use a search API; and (4) FACTS Grounding (v2), which evaluates whether long-form responses are grounded in provided documents, featuring significantly improved judge models. Each sub-leaderboard employs automated judge models to score model responses, and the final suite score is an average of the four components, designed to provide a robust and balanced assessment of a model's overall factuality. The FACTS Leaderboard Suite will be actively maintained, containing both public and private splits to allow for external participation while guarding its integrity. It can be found at https://www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/google/facts .

Abstract of The FACTS Leaderboard: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Large Language Model Factuality (arXiv:2512.10791, CC0)
Made by Google DeepMind + Google Research + Kaggle Released Oct 2026 Short factual questions Public tasks plus a private test set Last model added Oct 2026 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
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.
20
Models scored on its own leaderboard

GPT-6 Astra leads with 83.8%

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.

  1. 1 GPT-6 Astra 83.8%
  2. 2 GPT-6.1 Sol 83.8%
  3. 3 GPT-5.6 Sol 81.1%
  4. 4 Gemini 3.8 Flash 78.7%
  5. 5 GPT-6 Sol 76.1%
  6. 6 Gemini 3.6 Flash 73.9%
  7. 7 Gemini 3 Flash 72.4%
  8. 8 Gemini 4 Argon 72.2%
  9. 9 Claude Opus 5.5 58.7%
  10. 10 GPT-5.6 Terra 57.6%
  11. 11 GPT-6 Luna 57%
  12. 12 Grok 4.7 54.3%
  13. 13 GPT-5.6 Luna 50.6%
  14. 14 Claude Opus 5 48.8%
  15. 15 Grok 4.6 44.5%
  16. 16 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 43%
  17. 17 Grok 4.5 42.5%
  18. 18 Claude Sonnet 5.5 35.1%
  19. 19 Claude Sonnet 5 20.5%
  20. 20 Claude Haiku 5.5 13.1%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-6 Astra 83.8% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
2 GPT-6.1 Sol 83.8% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
3 GPT-5.6 Sol 81.1% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
4 Gemini 3.8 Flash 78.7% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
5 GPT-6 Sol 76.1% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
6 Gemini 3.6 Flash 73.9% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
7 Gemini 3 Flash 72.4% Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
8 Gemini 4 Argon 72.2% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
9 Claude Opus 5.5 58.7% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
10 GPT-5.6 Terra 57.6% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
11 GPT-6 Luna 57% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
12 Grok 4.7 54.3% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
13 GPT-5.6 Luna 50.6% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
14 Claude Opus 5 48.8% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
15 Grok 4.6 44.5% Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
16 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 43% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
17 Grok 4.5 42.5% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
18 Claude Sonnet 5.5 35.1% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
19 Claude Sonnet 5 20.5% Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
20 Claude Haiku 5.5 13.1% Oct 2026 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 1 leader
GPT-6 Astra 83.8%

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% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6 Astra Gemini 3 Flash 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6 Astra Gemini 3 Flash

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.

Versions

We switch the top row to each new version when it comes out. Open it for one row per version. An old version stays in play while people still test it, so whoever first takes it past 85% gets credit for closing it out.

Google DeepMind OpenAI
FACTS Parametric V2 6 leaders
GPT-6 Astra 83.8%
FACTS Parametric 5 leaders
GPT-6 Astra 83.1%

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