Benchmark Almanac

Toolathlon

Gemini 3.5 Flash 56.5% leads since May 2026 In use

108 long-horizon tasks across 32 apps through about 600 MCP tools. Execution-based checkers inspect final environment state.

Verified final release 2026-06-30. Do not mix with original-version scores.

In the authors’ words

Real-world language agents must handle complex, multi-step workflows across diverse Apps. For instance, an agent may manage emails by coordinating with calendars and file systems, or monitor a production database to detect anomalies and generate reports following an operating manual. However, existing language agent benchmarks often focus on narrow domains or simplified tasks that lack the diversity, realism, and long-horizon complexity required to evaluate agents' real-world performance. To address this gap, we introduce the Tool Decathlon (dubbed as Toolathlon), a benchmark for language agents offering diverse Apps and tools, realistic environment setup, and reliable execution-based evaluation. Toolathlon spans 32 software applications and 604 tools, ranging from everyday platforms such as Google Calendar and Notion to professional ones like WooCommerce, Kubernetes, and BigQuery. Most of the tools are based on a high-quality set of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that we may have revised or implemented ourselves. Unlike prior works, which primarily ensure functional realism but offer limited environment state diversity, we provide realistic initial environment states from real software, such as Canvas courses with dozens of students or real financial spreadsheets. This benchmark includes 108 manually sourced or crafted tasks in total, requiring interacting with multiple Apps over around 20 turns on average to complete. Each task is strictly verifiable through dedicated evaluation scripts. Comprehensive evaluation of SOTA models highlights their significant shortcomings: the best-performing model, Claude-4.5-Sonnet, achieves only a 38.6% success rate with 20.2 tool calling turns on average, while the top open-weights model DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp reaches 20.1%. We expect Toolathlon to drive the development of more capable language agents for real-world, long-horizon task execution.

Abstract of The Tool Decathlon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Diverse, Realistic, and Long-Horizon Task Execution (arXiv:2510.25726, CC0)
Made by HKUST NLP Released Oct 2025 Apps and MCP servers All tasks public Last in a launch post Aug 2026 Last model added Aug 2026 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
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.
50
Models scored on its own leaderboard
31
Launch posts list it, from 11 labs
12
System cards report it, from 6 labs

Gemini 3.5 Flash leads with 56.5% among models released by May 2026

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 2026, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Gemini 3.5 Flash 56.5%
  2. 2 GPT-5.5 xhigh 55.6%
  3. 3 GPT-5.4 xhigh 54.6%
  4. 4 Claude Opus 4.7 52.8%
  5. 5 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 52.8%
  6. 6 GPT-5.3 Codex 51.9%
  7. 7 Kimi K2.6 50%
  8. 8 Gemini 3 Flash 49.4%
  9. 9 Gemini 3.1 Pro 48.8%
  10. 10 DeepSeek-V4-Flash max 48.2%
  11. 11 Claude Opus 4.6 47.2%
  12. 12 MiniMax-M2.7 46.3%
  13. 13 Claude Sonnet 4.6 44.8%
  14. 14 GPT-5.2 xhigh 43.8%
  15. 15 Claude Opus 4.5 43.5%
  16. 16 GPT-5.4 Mini 42.9%
  17. 17 MiniMax-M2.1 40.7%
  18. 18 GLM-5.1 40.7%
  19. 19 Qwen 3.6 Plus 39.8%
  20. 20 GLM-5 39.2%
  21. 21 Claude Sonnet 4.5 38.9%
  22. 22 MiniMax-M2.5 38.3%
  23. 23 Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 38.3%
  24. 24 GPT-5 high 37.7%
  25. 25 Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) 37.7%
  26. 26 GPT-5.1 37%
  27. 27 Gemini 3 Pro 36.4%
  28. 28 GPT-5.4 Nano xhigh 35.5%
  29. 29 DeepSeek-V3.2 35.2%
  30. 30 Qwen3.5-27B 31.5%
  31. 31 Claude Sonnet 4 29.9%
  32. 32 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 28.7%
  33. 33 Kimi K2.5 27.8%
  34. 34 Grok 4 27.5%
  35. 35 Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B 26.9%
  36. 36 Claude Haiku 4.5 26.2%
  37. 37 GLM-4.7 23.8%
  38. 38 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 20.1%
  39. 39 GLM-4.6 18.8%
  40. 40 grok-code-fast-1 18.5%
  41. 41 Grok 4 Fast 18.5%
  42. 42 Kimi K2 Thinking 17.6%
  43. 43 o3 17%
  44. 44 o4-mini 14.8%
  45. 45 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B 14.5%
  46. 46 GPT-5 mini 14.5%
  47. 47 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 14.2%
  48. 48 Kimi K2 Sep 2025 13%
  49. 49 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 10.5%
  50. 50 Gemini 2.5 Flash Sep 2025 3.70%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Gemini 3.5 Flash 56.5% May 2026 Official leaderboard
2 GPT-5.5 55.6% xhigh Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
3 GPT-5.4 54.6% xhigh Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
4 Claude Opus 4.7 52.8% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
5 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 52.8% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
6 GPT-5.3 Codex 51.9% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
7 Kimi K2.6 50% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
8 Gemini 3 Flash 49.4% Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
9 Gemini 3.1 Pro 48.8% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
10 DeepSeek-V4-Flash 48.2% max Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
11 Claude Opus 4.6 47.2% Claude Agent SDK Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
12 MiniMax-M2.7 46.3% Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
13 Claude Sonnet 4.6 44.8% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
14 GPT-5.2 43.8% xhigh, Responses API Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
15 Claude Opus 4.5 43.5% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
16 GPT-5.4 Mini 42.9% Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
17 MiniMax-M2.1 40.7% Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
18 GLM-5.1 40.7% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
19 Qwen 3.6 Plus 39.8% Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
20 GLM-5 39.2% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
21 Claude Sonnet 4.5 38.9% Sep 2025 Official leaderboard
22 MiniMax-M2.5 38.3% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
23 Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 38.3% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
24 GPT-5 37.7% high, Responses API Aug 2025 Official leaderboard
25 Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) 37.7% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
26 GPT-5.1 37% Responses API Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
27 Gemini 3 Pro 36.4% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
28 GPT-5.4 Nano 35.5% xhigh Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
29 DeepSeek-V3.2 35.2% Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
30 Qwen3.5-27B 31.5% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
31 Claude Sonnet 4 29.9% May 2025 Official leaderboard
32 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 28.7% Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
33 Kimi K2.5 27.8% Jan 2026 Official leaderboard
34 Grok 4 27.5% Jul 2025 Official leaderboard
35 Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B 26.9% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
36 Claude Haiku 4.5 26.2% Oct 2025 Official leaderboard
37 GLM-4.7 23.8% Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
38 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 20.1% Sep 2025 Official leaderboard
39 GLM-4.6 18.8% Sep 2025 Official leaderboard
40 grok-code-fast-1 18.5% Aug 2025 Official leaderboard
41 Grok 4 Fast 18.5% Sep 2025 Official leaderboard
42 Kimi K2 Thinking 17.6% Nov 2025 Official leaderboard
43 o3 17% Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
44 o4-mini 14.8% Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
45 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B 14.5% Jul 2025 Official leaderboard
46 GPT-5 mini 14.5% Aug 2025 Official leaderboard
47 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 14.2% Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
48 Kimi K2 Sep 2025 13% Sep 2025 Official leaderboard
49 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 10.5% Jun 2025 Official leaderboard
50 Gemini 2.5 Flash Sep 2025 3.70% Sep 2025 Official leaderboard

Labs report scores for 37 models in their cards. We plot every source in the charts below.

8 models have held number one since its release in Oct 2025

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.

Anthropic OpenAI Google DeepMind DeepSeek Meta Moonshot AI Z.ai
Own leaderboard Replaced by Toolathlon-Verified, Jun 2026
Lab claims Replaced by Toolathlon-Verified, Aug 2026

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 Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GLM-5.3-Flash Claude Fable 5 Gemini 3.5 Flash GPT-5.3 Codex GPT-5.2 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude Sonnet 4 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GLM-5.3-Flash Claude Fable 5

8 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.

DeepSeek
Google DeepMind
MiniMax
Z.ai
Qwen
OpenAI
Moonshot AI
StepFun
ByteDance Seed
Tencent
Meta
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
26 Aug 2026 Qwen3.8 Flash 73.5 Real-world tool use Toolathlon Verified (Pass@1)
26 Aug 2026 GLM-5.3-Flash 78.4 Toolathlon Verified
21 Aug 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp 75.9 Toolathlon-Verified
14 Aug 2026 GLM-5.3 73 Toolathlon Verified
13 Aug 2026 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 74.1 Toolathlon-Verified
3 Aug 2026 Qwen 3.8 Max 72.5 Toolathlon Verified (Pass@1)
31 Jul 2026 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 70.3 Toolathlon-Verified
16 Jul 2026 Kimi K3 76.5 Toolathlon-Verified
9 Jul 2026 GPT-5.6 Luna 53.4 Toolathlon
9 Jul 2026 GPT-5.6 Terra 53.1 Toolathlon
9 Jul 2026 Muse Spark 1.1 75.6 Toolathlon-Verified (Personal tool use)
2 Jul 2026 Tencent Hy3 48.5 Toolathlon
23 Jun 2026 Seed2.1 Pro 50.6 Toolathlon
16 Jun 2026 GLM-5.2 48.2 Tool-Decathlon
29 May 2026 Step 3.7 Flash 49.5 Toolathlon (internal fixed version)
19 May 2026 Gemini 3.5 Flash 56.5 Toolathlon
24 Apr 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 51.8 Toolathlon (Pass@1)
23 Apr 2026 GPT-5.5 55.6 Toolathlon
20 Apr 2026 Kimi K2.6 50 Toolathlon
15 Apr 2026 Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B 26.9 Tool Decathlon
7 Apr 2026 GLM-5.1 40.7 Tool-Decathlon
2 Apr 2026 Qwen 3.6 Plus 39.8 Tool Decathlon
18 Mar 2026 MiniMax-M2.7 46.3 Toolathlon (Toolathon in text)
17 Mar 2026 GPT-5.4 Nano 35.5 Toolathlon
17 Mar 2026 GPT-5.4 Mini 42.9 Toolathlon
5 Mar 2026 GPT-5.4 54.6 Toolathlon
16 Feb 2026 Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 38.3 Tool Decathlon
11 Feb 2026 GLM-5 38 Tool-Decathlon
23 Dec 2025 MiniMax-M2.1 43.5 Toolathlon
17 Dec 2025 Gemini 3 Flash 49.4 Toolathlon
1 Dec 2025 DeepSeek-V3.2 35.2 Tool-Decathlon (Pass@1)

12 system cards report it, from 6 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
30 Jun 2026 Claude Sonnet 5 system card 54.3 Toolathlon, 108 tasks, internal harness, Pass@1 over three trials, max effort (Pass@3 63.0, Pass^3 40.7) (Table 8.11.5.A) Capabilities
23 Jun 2026 Seed2.1 Pro model card 50.6 Toolathlon, Pass@1 (Table 2) Capabilities
9 Jun 2026 Claude Fable 5 system card 61.7 Toolathlon, 108 tasks, internal harness, Pass@1 over 3 trials, adaptive thinking at max effort; Pass@3 68.5, Pass^3 55.6, 19.8 average turns (Table 8.17.8.A) Capabilities
28 May 2026 Claude Opus 4.8 system card 59.9 Toolathlon Pass@1 over 3 trials on 108 tasks, internal harness, max effort (Pass@3 67.6, Pass^3 48.1) (8.13.7, Figure 8.13.7.A) Capabilities
26 May 2026 MiniMax-M2 technical report 18.8 Toolathlon, MiniMax-M2 bar, printed label (Figure 9) Capabilities
26 May 2026 MiniMax-M2.7 technical report 46.3 Toolathlon (Table 4) Capabilities
26 May 2026 MiniMax-M2.5 technical report 38.3 Toolathlon (Table 4) Capabilities
19 May 2026 Gemini 3.5 Flash model card 56.5 Toolathlon (results table, p.4) Capabilities
26 Apr 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Pro technical report 51.8 Toolathlon (Pass@1), named Tool-Decathlon in 5.3.1, DS-V4-Pro Max (Table 6) Capabilities
26 Apr 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Flash technical report 47.8 Toolathlon (Pass@1), DeepSeek-V4-Flash Max (Table 7) Capabilities
17 Feb 2026 GLM-5 technical report 39.2 Tool-Decathlon (Table 7) Capabilities
1 Dec 2025 DeepSeek-V3.2 technical report 35.2 Tool-Decathlon (Pass@1), DeepSeek-V3.2 Thinking (Table 2) Capabilities

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.

Anthropic OpenAI Google DeepMind Meta Moonshot AI Z.ai
Toolathlon-Verified 16 leaders
Toolathlon Replaced by Toolathlon-Verified, Aug 2026

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