OlympiadBench
Models solve bilingual olympiad-level math and physics problems in Chinese and English, many with images. Answers are checked against a key.
Accepted at ACL 2024. The dataset was updated on 2024-03-24 and 2024-07-17. Labs report the full multimodal set or a text-only subset.
In the authors’ words
Recent advancements have seen Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) surpassing general human capabilities in various tasks, approaching the proficiency level of human experts across multiple domains. With traditional benchmarks becoming less challenging for these models, new rigorous challenges are essential to gauge their advanced abilities. In this work, we present OlympiadBench, an Olympiad-level bilingual multimodal scientific benchmark, featuring 8,476 problems from Olympiad-level mathematics and physics competitions, including the Chinese college entrance exam. Each problem is detailed with expert-level annotations for step-by-step reasoning. Evaluating top-tier models on OlympiadBench, we implement a comprehensive assessment methodology to accurately evaluate model responses. Notably, the best-performing model, GPT-4V, attains an average score of 17.97% on OlympiadBench, with a mere 10.74% in physics, highlighting the benchmark rigor and the intricacy of physical reasoning. Our analysis orienting GPT-4V points out prevalent issues with hallucinations, knowledge omissions, and logical fallacies. We hope that our challenging benchmark can serve as a valuable resource for helping future AGI research endeavors. The data and evaluation code are available at https://github.com/OpenBMB/OlympiadBench
- Level
- Competition The strongest students, in olympiad-style contests
- 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.
GPT-4o leads with 25.9% among models released by May 2024
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 May 2024, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- and 16 more
- 1 GPT-4o May 2024 25.9%
- 2 GPT-4V 18%
- 3 Qwen-VL-Max 10.1%
- 4 Claude 3 Opus 7.65%
- 5
Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision 4.22%
- 6
LLaVA-v1.6-34B 3.65%
- 7
Yi-VL-34B 3.42%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-4o May 2024 | 25.9% | May 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 2 | GPT-4V | 18% | Nov 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 3 | Qwen-VL-Max | 10.1% | Jan 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 4 | Claude 3 Opus | 7.65% | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 5 | | 4.22% | Jan 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 6 | | 3.65% | Jan 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 7 | | 3.42% | Dec 2023 | Official leaderboard |
Labs report scores for 3 models in their cards. We plot every source in the charts below.
2 models have held number one since its release in Feb 2024
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release. We draw one row each for the benchmark’s own leaderboard and what labs claim in their cards.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
No launch post has listed it since Aug 2025
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.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Aug 2025 | 68.7 | OlympiadBench | |
| 27 Jun 2025 | 82.7 | OlympiadBench | |
| 12 May 2025 | 65 | OlympiadBench |
3 system cards report it, from 3 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.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Aug 2025 | | 68.7 | OlympiadBench (Table 2) | Capabilities |
| 26 Jun 2025 | | 82.7 | OlympiadBench, slow-thinking (Table 3). Fast-thinking 64.1 (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| 11 May 2025 | | 65 | OlympiadBench, thinking (Table 6). Non-thinking 60.4 | Capabilities |
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- AIME 2026 In use Models solve the 30 integer-answer problems from the 2026 AIME I and II math competitions. Scored by exact answer match. GPT-5.5 100%
- HMMT 2026 In use Models solve the 33 final-answer problems from the February 2026 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament. Scored by exact answer match. GPT-5.5 98.5%
- MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) In use Evaluates models on newly released math competitions after release. Final-answer or human/LLM-judged proof scores. Claude Opus 4.8 81.3%
- PolyMath In use Models solve 9,000 parallel math problems in 18 languages across four difficulty levels, from school math to frontier math. Final answers are checked.
Qwen3.7-Max 86.5%
- USAMO 2026 In use Models write full proofs for the six problems of the 2026 USA Mathematical Olympiad. Judges grade each proof from 0 to 7 against rubrics. GPT-5.5 98.2%