Benchmark Almanac

GDPval-AA v2

Claude Opus 5 1,861 leads since Jul 2026 In use

Agents with shell and web access complete 220 GDPval gold tasks from 44 occupations. Outputs are compared pairwise and ranked by Elo.

Artificial Analysis version 2 of GDPval-AA. Elo scores do not compare with the GDPval win rate.

In the authors’ words

We introduce GDPval, a benchmark evaluating AI model capabilities on real-world economically valuable tasks. GDPval covers the majority of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Work Activities for 44 occupations across the top 9 sectors contributing to U.S. GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Tasks are constructed from the representative work of industry professionals with an average of 14 years of experience. We find that frontier model performance on GDPval is improving roughly linearly over time, and that the current best frontier models are approaching industry experts in deliverable quality. We analyze the potential for frontier models, when paired with human oversight, to perform GDPval tasks cheaper and faster than unaided experts. We also demonstrate that increased reasoning effort, increased task context, and increased scaffolding improves model performance on GDPval. Finally, we open-source a gold subset of 220 tasks and provide a public automated grading service at evals.openai.com to facilitate future research in understanding real-world model capabilities.

Abstract of GDPval: Evaluating AI Model Performance on Real-World Economically Valuable Tasks (arXiv:2510.04374, CC0)
Made by Artificial Analysis Released Jun 2026 Tasks from real jobs All tasks public Last in a launch post Oct 2026 Last model added Oct 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
26
Models scored in lab cards
25
Launch posts list it, from 12 labs
18
System cards report it, from 8 labs

Claude Opus 5 leads with 1,861

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

Bars start at 750.

  1. 1 Claude Opus 5 1,861
  2. 2 Claude Fable 5.1 1,853
  3. 3 GLM-5.3-Flash 1,773
  4. 4 GLM-5.3 1,769
  5. 5 Muse Spark 1.3 1,754
  6. 6 Grok 4.6 1,753
  7. 7 GPT-5.6 Sol 1,748
  8. 8 Kimi K3 1,686
  9. 9 Tencent Hy4 preview 1,678
  10. 10 Claude Sonnet 5 1,618
  11. 11 GPT-5.6 Terra 1,593
  12. 12 GPT-5.6 Luna 1,592
  13. 13 Gemini 3.8 Flash 1,545
  14. 14 Grok 4.5 1,535
  15. 15 Gemini 3.7 Flash 1,525
  16. 16 Gemini 3.6 Flash 1,421
  17. 17 Muse Spark Open 1,401
  18. 18 Muse Spark 1.1 1,381
  19. 19 Inkling-Small 1,269
  20. 20 Inkling 1,238
  21. 21 Granite 4.2 30B 1,225
  22. 22 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 1,211
  23. 23 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 1,140
  24. 24 Solar Open 2 1,128
  25. 25 Muse Glimmer 953
  26. 26 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B 832
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Claude Opus 5 1,861 Jul 2026 Model card
2 Claude Fable 5.1 1,853 Sep 2026 Model card
3 GLM-5.3-Flash 1,773 Aug 2026 Model card
4 GLM-5.3 1,769 Aug 2026 Model card
5 Muse Spark 1.3 1,754 Sep 2026 Model card
6 Grok 4.6 1,753 Aug 2026 Model card
7 GPT-5.6 Sol 1,748 Jul 2026 Model card
8 Kimi K3 1,686 Jul 2026 Model card
9 Tencent Hy4 preview 1,678 Aug 2026 Model card
10 Claude Sonnet 5 1,618 Jun 2026 Model card
11 GPT-5.6 Terra 1,593 Jul 2026 Model card
12 GPT-5.6 Luna 1,592 Jul 2026 Model card
13 Gemini 3.8 Flash 1,545 Sep 2026 Model card
14 Grok 4.5 1,535 Jul 2026 Model card
15 Gemini 3.7 Flash 1,525 Aug 2026 Model card
16 Gemini 3.6 Flash 1,421 Jul 2026 Model card
17 Muse Spark Open 1,401 Oct 2026 Model card
18 Muse Spark 1.1 1,381 Jul 2026 Model card
19 Inkling-Small 1,269 Jul 2026 Model card
20 Inkling 1,238 Jul 2026 Model card
21 Granite 4.2 30B 1,225 Aug 2026 Model card
22 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 1,211 Oct 2026 Model card
23 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 1,140 Jul 2026 Model card
24 Solar Open 2 1,128 Jul 2026 Model card
25 Muse Glimmer 953 Aug 2026 Model card
26 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B 832 Aug 2026 Model card

3 models have held number one since its release in Jun 2026

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

Anthropic OpenAI
Lab claims 3 leaders

Scores over time

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

Reported by the lab in its model card
750 1,000 1,250 1,500 1,750 2,000 2026 750 1,000 1,250 1,500 1,750 2,000 2026

12 labs put it in a launch post in the last six months

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Anthropic
OpenAI
Thinking Machines
Moonshot AI
Google DeepMind
Upstage
Meta
NVIDIA
xAI
Z.ai
IBM
Tencent
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
15 Oct 2026 Muse Spark Open 1401 GDPVal-AA v2
15 Oct 2026 Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 28.5 GDPVal-AA-V2 (metric not stated, not an Elo)
15 Oct 2026 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 1211 GDPval-AA v2
2 Sep 2026 Muse Spark 1.3 1754 GDPVal-AA v2 (Knowledge work)
2 Sep 2026 Gemini 3.8 Flash 1545 GDPVal-AA v2 (Elo)
1 Sep 2026 Claude Fable 5.1 1853 Knowledge work GDPval-AA v2
28 Aug 2026 Tencent Hy4 preview 1678 GDPval-AA V2 (Elo, official)
26 Aug 2026 GLM-5.3-Flash 1773 GDPval-AA v2
25 Aug 2026 Granite 4.2 30B 1225 GDPval (Elo, version not stated)
14 Aug 2026 GLM-5.3 1769 GDPval-AA v2
13 Aug 2026 Gemini 3.7 Flash 1525 GDPVal-AA v2 (Elo)
12 Aug 2026 Grok 4.6 1753 GDPVal-AA v2
11 Aug 2026 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B 832 GDPval-AA-V2
10 Aug 2026 Muse Glimmer 953 GDPVal-AA v2
30 Jul 2026 Inkling-Small 1269 GDPval-AA v2
24 Jul 2026 Claude Opus 5 1861 Knowledge work GDPval-AA v2
22 Jul 2026 Solar Open 2 1128 GDPval-AA v2 (ELO), measured on 2026-06-30
21 Jul 2026 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 1140 GDPVal-AA v2 (Elo)
21 Jul 2026 Gemini 3.6 Flash 1421 GDPVal-AA v2 (Elo)
16 Jul 2026 Kimi K3 1686 GDPval-AA v2 (Elo)
15 Jul 2026 Inkling 1238 GDPVal-AA v2
9 Jul 2026 GPT-5.6 Luna 1591.8 GDPval-AA v2
9 Jul 2026 GPT-5.6 Terra 1593 GDPval-AA v2
9 Jul 2026 GPT-5.6 Sol 1748 GDPval-AA v2 (Sol, max)
30 Jun 2026 Claude Sonnet 5 1618 Knowledge work GDPval-AA v2

18 system cards report it, from 8 labs

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
19 Oct 2026 Muse Glimmer technical report 953 GDPval-AA, high, 952 xhigh (Tables 2 and 5) Capabilities
15 Oct 2026 Nemotron 3.5 Super VL technical report 1211.2 GDPVal-AA-v2 ELO 1,211.20, norm ELO 0.356, NVIDIA's open reimplementation of the AA v2.1 method (Table 10) Capabilities
15 Oct 2026 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B technical report GDPval, BF16 acc. 17.19, an accuracy-style number with no Elo printed (Table 22) Capabilities
15 Oct 2026 Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B technical report 28.5 GDPVal-AA-V2, released 24GB checkpoint, an index per the Figure 5 caption, not an Elo (Table 7). BF16 31.13 Capabilities
2 Sep 2026 Gemini 3.8 Flash model card 1545 GDPVal-AA v2, Elo (results table, p.5) Capabilities
1 Sep 2026 Claude Fable 5.1 system card 1853 GDPval-AA v2 Elo at max effort, run by Artificial Analysis; 1835 at xhigh (Table 8.1.A, 8.15.3) Capabilities
13 Aug 2026 Gemini 3.7 Flash model card 1525 GDPVal-AA v2, Elo (results table, p.5) Capabilities
12 Aug 2026 Grok 4.6 model card 1753 AA GDPVal (GDPval-AA v2), Elo, high, run by Artificial Analysis (3.1) Capabilities
30 Jul 2026 Inkling-Small model card 1269 GDPval-AA v2 (5. Evaluations table) Capabilities
27 Jul 2026 Kimi K3 technical report 1686 GDPval-AA v2 (Elo), cited from Artificial Analysis (Table 2) Capabilities
24 Jul 2026 Claude Opus 5 system card 1861 GDPval-AA v2 Elo at max effort, run by Artificial Analysis (1827 at xhigh) (Table 8.1.A, 8.13.4) Capabilities
22 Jul 2026 Solar Open 2 technical report 1128 GDPval-AA v2 (ELO), measured on 30 June 2026 (Table 3 and Section 5.1) Capabilities
21 Jul 2026 Gemini 3.6 Flash model card 1421 GDPVal-AA v2, Elo (results table, p.4) Capabilities
21 Jul 2026 Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite model card 1140 GDPVal-AA v2, Elo (results table, p.4) Capabilities
15 Jul 2026 Inkling model card 1238 GDPVal-AA v2 (5. Evaluations table, effort 0.99) Capabilities
14 Jul 2026 Grok 4.5 model card 1535 GDPval-AA v2, AA score, high, run by Artificial Analysis (4.1) Capabilities
9 Jul 2026 Muse Spark 1.1 system card 1381 GDPval-AA v2 Elo, from Artificial Analysis (Figure 44) Capabilities
30 Jun 2026 Claude Sonnet 5 system card 1618 GDPval-AA v2 Elo as of June 17, 2026, run by Artificial Analysis (Table 8.1.A, 8.11.4) Capabilities

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