xbench-ScienceQA
Models answer postgraduate-level science questions written by experts, in Chinese, as part of the xbench AGI Tracking series.
Not the 2022 ScienceQA from UCLA and Ai2. The repo board reports score and best of 5. o3-high led at 60.8 at launch.
In the authors’ words
We introduce xbench, a dynamic, profession-aligned evaluation suite designed to bridge the gap between AI agent capabilities and real-world productivity. While existing benchmarks often focus on isolated technical skills, they may not accurately reflect the economic value agents deliver in professional settings. To address this, xbench targets commercially significant domains with evaluation tasks defined by industry professionals. Our framework creates metrics that strongly correlate with productivity value, enables prediction of Technology-Market Fit (TMF), and facilitates tracking of product capabilities over time. As our initial implementations, we present two benchmarks: Recruitment and Marketing. For Recruitment, we collect 50 tasks from real-world headhunting business scenarios to evaluate agents' abilities in company mapping, information retrieval, and talent sourcing. For Marketing, we assess agents' ability to match influencers with advertiser needs, evaluating their performance across 50 advertiser requirements using a curated pool of 836 candidate influencers. We present initial evaluation results for leading contemporary agents, establishing a baseline for these professional domains. Our continuously updated evalsets and evaluations are available at https://xbench.org.
- 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.
2 models share the top score of 76.4%
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.
- 76.4 Claude Opus 4.8
- 76.4 Claude Opus 5.5
- 74.6 GPT-6 Astra
- 73.4 Claude Fable 5
- 73.4
Qwen 3.8 Max
- 73.0 Claude Opus 4.7
- 73.0 GPT-5.5 Pro
- 72.6
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- 72.4 Grok 4.5
- 72.4
Gemini 3.8 Flash
- 72.2 GPT-5.4 Pro
- 71.6
Gemini 3 Pro
- 71.2 Kimi K3
- 71.0
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
- 71.0
Seed2.1 Pro
- 71.0 GPT-5.6 Sol Pro
- 70.8 GPT-5.4
- 70.8
Qwen3.7-Max
- 70.4 Grok 4.6
- 70.2
Gemini 3.7 Flash
- 69.8
Tencent Hy4 preview
- 69.4
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
- 69.2
Seed2.0 Pro
- 66.6
Tencent Hy3
- 65.8 Kimi K2.6
- 65.8 GLM-5.3
- 65.6
Gemini 3.6 Flash
- 65.0 Grok 4
- 64.6 GLM-5.2
- 1 Claude Opus 4.8 76.4%
- 2 Claude Opus 5.5 76.4%
- 3 GPT-6 Astra max 74.6%
- 4 Claude Fable 5 73.4%
- 5
Qwen 3.8 Max 73.4%
- 6 Claude Opus 4.7 73%
- 7 GPT-5.5 Pro high 73%
- 8
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash max 72.6%
- 9 Grok 4.5 72.4%
- 10
Gemini 3.8 Flash high 72.4%
- 11 GPT-5.4 Pro 72.2%
- 12
Gemini 3 Pro 71.6%
- 13 Kimi K3 71.2%
- 14
DeepSeek-V4-Flash 71%
- 15
Seed2.1 Pro 71%
- 16 GPT-5.6 Sol Pro 71%
- 17 GPT-5.4 70.8%
- 18
Qwen3.7-Max xhigh 70.8%
- 19 Grok 4.6 70.4%
- 20
Gemini 3.7 Flash 70.2%
- 21
Tencent Hy4 preview 69.8%
- 22
DeepSeek-V4-Pro max 69.4%
- 23
Seed2.0 Pro high 69.2%
- 24
Tencent Hy3 66.6%
- 25 Kimi K2.6 65.8%
- 26 GLM-5.3 65.8%
- 27
Gemini 3.6 Flash 65.6%
- 28 Grok 4 65%
- 29 GLM-5.2 64.6%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 76.4% | May 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5 | 76.4% | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 3 | GPT-6 Astra | 74.6% | max | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5 | 73.4% | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 5 | | 73.4% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 6 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 73% | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 7 | GPT-5.5 Pro | 73% | high | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 8 | | 72.6% | max | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 9 | Grok 4.5 | 72.4% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 10 | | 72.4% | high | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 11 | GPT-5.4 Pro | 72.2% | Mar 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 12 | | 71.6% | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 13 | Kimi K3 | 71.2% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 14 | | 71% | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 15 | | 71% | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 16 | GPT-5.6 Sol Pro | 71% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 17 | GPT-5.4 | 70.8% | Mar 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 18 | | 70.8% | xhigh | May 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 19 | Grok 4.6 | 70.4% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 20 | | 70.2% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 21 | | 69.8% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 22 | | 69.4% | max | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 23 | | 69.2% | high | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 24 | | 66.6% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 25 | Kimi K2.6 | 65.8% | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 26 | GLM-5.3 | 65.8% | Aug 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 27 | | 65.6% | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 28 | Grok 4 | 65% | Jul 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 29 | GLM-5.2 | 64.6% | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard |
5 models have held number one since its release in May 2025
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
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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