Benchmark Almanac

SpireClimb StS1 A20 Heart

GPT-6.1 Sol 20% leads since Oct 2026 Not in model cards

Agents play Slay the Spire 1 through its graphical interface at Ascension 20 and must defeat the Heart. Scored by win rate over fixed seeds.

Epoch expects saturation within a few model generations because labs may train on the game.

Made by Epoch AI Released Oct 2026 Video games Tasks kept private Last model added Sep 2026 Scores refreshed 31 Oct 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
Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
Leaderboard epoch.ai
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Models scored in Epoch AI data

GPT-6.1 Sol leads with 20%

Best score per model in Epoch AI’s data. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best.

  1. 20.0 GPT-6.1 Sol
  2. 16.7 GPT-6 Astra
  3. 1.67 GPT-6 Sol
  4. 0.0 Claude Fable 5.1
  5. 0.0 Claude Opus 5.5
  6. 0.0 GPT-6 Luna
  7. 0.0 Claude Sonnet 5.5
  1. 1 GPT-6.1 Sol max 20%
  2. 2 GPT-6 Astra max 16.7%
  3. 3 GPT-6 Sol max 1.67%
  4. 4 Claude Fable 5.1 max 0%
  5. 5 Claude Opus 5.5 max 0%
  6. 6 GPT-6 Luna max 0%
  7. 7 Claude Sonnet 5.5 max 0%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-6.1 Sol 20% max Sep 2026 Epoch AI
2 GPT-6 Astra 16.7% max Sep 2026 Epoch AI
3 GPT-6 Sol 1.67% max Sep 2026 Epoch AI
4 Claude Fable 5.1 0% max Sep 2026 Epoch AI
5 Claude Opus 5.5 0% max Sep 2026 Epoch AI
6 GPT-6 Luna 0% max Sep 2026 Epoch AI
7 Claude Sonnet 5.5 0% max Sep 2026 Epoch AI

Number one over time

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

OpenAI
Epoch AI runs 1 leader
GPT-6.1 Sol 20%

Scores over time

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

Run or collected by Epoch AI Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6.1 Sol Claude Fable 5.1 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6.1 Sol Claude Fable 5.1

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.

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