Benchmark Almanac

Holdings-IndividualTaxBench

Claude Opus 5.5 76.3% leads since Oct 2026 Not in model cards

88 real client document packages turned into Form 1040 fields. Fact-level accuracy against practitioner-reviewed returns, with an LLM judge matching values.

Tasks come from Thrive's accounting firms and are not released. OpenAI holds equity in Thrive and the judge is an OpenAI model.

Made by Thrive Holdings Released Oct 2026 Tasks from real jobs 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
Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
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Models scored on its own leaderboard

Claude Opus 5.5 leads with 76.3%

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. Every run is in the next chart.

  1. 1 Claude Opus 5.5 high 76.3%
  2. 2 Claude Fable 5.1 max 75.5%
  3. 3 GPT-6.1 Sol medium 74.2%
  4. 4 GPT-6 Astra medium 74%
  5. 5 GPT-6 Sol max 72.9%
  6. 6 GLM-5.3 max 72.8%
  7. 7 Kimi K3 high 72.6%
  8. 8 Grok 4.7 medium 72.3%
  9. 9 Claude Sonnet 5 xhigh 71.5%
  10. 10 GLM-5.3-Flash max 71.3%
  11. 11 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash max 69.9%
  12. 12 GPT-6 Luna medium 67.6%
  13. 13 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 xhigh 64.4%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Claude Opus 5.5 76.3% high Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
2 Claude Fable 5.1 75.5% max Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
3 GPT-6.1 Sol 74.2% medium Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
4 GPT-6 Astra 74% medium Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
5 GPT-6 Sol 72.9% max Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
6 GLM-5.3 72.8% max Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
7 Kimi K3 72.6% high Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
8 Grok 4.7 72.3% medium Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
9 Claude Sonnet 5 71.5% xhigh Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
10 GLM-5.3-Flash 71.3% max Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
11 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 69.9% max Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
12 GPT-6 Luna 67.6% medium Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
13 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 64.4% xhigh Aug 2026 Official leaderboard

The best score, 76.3%, costs $5.00 a task

Runs on the cost frontier score higher than any run that's cheaper. GPT-6.1 Sol at medium comes within 2.1 points of the best for $1.40 a task, 4 times cheaper. The costs are the leaderboard's own estimates, so compare them only within this benchmark.

DeepSeek Anthropic OpenAI Cost frontier One model at each effort level
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% $1.00 $2.00 $5.00 $10 $20 $50 $100 Cost per task, log scale Claude Opus 5.5, high GPT-6.1 Sol, medium GPT-6.1 Sol, low DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, xhigh 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% $1.00 $10 $100 Cost per task, log scale Claude Opus 5.5, high GPT-6.1 Sol, low
ModelEffortHarnessScoreCost per taskOutput tokens
Claude Opus 5.5 high 76.3% $5.00
Claude Opus 5.5 xhigh 76.3% $5.90
Claude Opus 5.5 medium 75.7% $4.90
Claude Fable 5.1 max 75.5% $16
Claude Fable 5.1 high 75.2% $11
Claude Fable 5.1 xhigh 75.2% $13
Claude Fable 5.1 low 75.2% $9.40
Claude Fable 5.1 medium 75.1% $10
GPT-6.1 Sol medium 74.2% $1.40
GPT-6 Astra medium 74% $8.90
GPT-6 Astra low 73.6% $7.90
GPT-6.1 Sol high 73.6% $1.50
GPT-6 Astra max 73.5% $13
GPT-6 Astra high 73.1% $10
GPT-6.1 Sol xhigh 73.1% $1.60
GPT-6 Sol max 72.9% $2.60
GLM-5.3 max 72.8% $3.60
GPT-6 Astra xhigh 72.8% $10
GPT-6.1 Sol max 72.7% $2.00
Kimi K3 high 72.6% $3.70
Grok 4.7 medium 72.3% $3.50
GLM-5.3 high 72% $3.10
Grok 4.7 high 72% $4.60
Claude Opus 5.5 low 71.8% $4.00
Grok 4.7 xhigh 71.6% $5.60
Claude Sonnet 5 xhigh 71.5% $3.20
GLM-5.3-Flash max 71.3% $68
Claude Sonnet 5 max 71% $4.00
GPT-6 Sol high 70.4% $1.80
GPT-6 Sol xhigh 70.4% $1.90
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash max 69.9% $42
GPT-6.1 Sol low 69.9% $1.30
Kimi K3 low 69.6% $3.20
GLM-5.3-Flash high 69.4% $53
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash low 69.4% $22
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash high 69% $20
GPT-6 Sol medium 68.8% $1.70
GLM-5.3 low 68.6% $2.20
Grok 4.7 low 67.6% $2.80
GPT-6 Luna medium 67.6% $11
Claude Sonnet 5 high 67% $2.70
GPT-6 Sol low 65% $1.50
GPT-6 Luna high 64.6% $14
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 xhigh 64.4% $1.00
GLM-5.3-Flash low 64% $47
GPT-6 Luna xhigh 64% $15
Claude Sonnet 5 medium 62.2% $2.40
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 high 61.7% $1.10
GPT-6 Luna max 61.6% $22
GPT-6 Luna low 54.9% $7.20

Number one over time

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

Anthropic
Own leaderboard 1 leader

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%) Claude Opus 5.5 Kimi K3 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Claude Opus 5.5

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