Benchmark Almanac

Other

We track 41 benchmarks in other, or 50 if you count each version. They run from everyday level to research frontier level.

Anthropic held the top other score 46% of the contested time

That's about 21 of the 46 months since January 2023, averaged over the benchmarks below. The easiest benchmarks are at the top. Versions of one test share a row, with a dark tick at each new version. We stop the clock, and fade the rest of the row, when the best score passes 85%, or at the newest score if 45 days go by without another.

Anthropic OpenAI Google DeepMind
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
LiveBench Passed 85% in Sep 2026, by Claude Fable 5.1
SAGE v1.1 (Vals) Passed 85% in Oct 2026, by Claude Opus 5.5
Political Science LLM Benchmark Not tested since Sep 2026
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Vals Multimodal Index Not tested since Aug 2026
LMCA 5 leaders

Scores come from each benchmark’s own leaderboard, from Epoch AI’s runs and from labs’ reports on their own models. We date Epoch runs by the model’s release and lab reports by when they came out. Labs pick their own settings, so a lab’s claim can beat an independent run of the same model. Turn off lab claims to see independent runs only.

Anthropic OpenAI Google DeepMind
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
LiveBench Passed 85% in Sep 2026, by Claude Fable 5.1
SAGE v1.1 (Vals) Passed 85% in Oct 2026, by Claude Opus 5.5
Political Science LLM Benchmark Not tested since Sep 2026
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Vals Multimodal Index Not tested since Aug 2026
LMCA 5 leaders

Only each benchmark’s own leaderboard and Epoch AI’s runs, dated by the model’s release. We leave out benchmarks that only labs report.

From everyday to research frontier level

Grouped by who could solve the tasks, from things most adults can do to open research problems. The bar under each name is its best score.

Another 13 have no level. Levels don’t apply to arenas, safety evaluations or composite indices.

By kind

Composite indices

BenchmarkLevelScoredBest scoreStatus
OpenVLM Leaderboard OpenCompass runs vision-language models through VLMEvalKit on a fixed set of image benchmarks, such as MMBench, MMStar and MathVista. The headline is the average score across that set. University Checked automatically 80.1 Not in cards
Conceptual Reasoning Index An index that ranks models on reasoning about hard-to-verify topics such as AI alignment and decision theory. It weights LMCA 60 percent and ACCoRD and DTBench 20 percent each. Expert Checked automatically 77.9 Not in cards
HELM Lite A lightweight HELM board that runs models with in-context learning on ten scenarios. They include NarrativeQA, NaturalQuestions, OpenbookQA, MMLU, GSM8K, MATH, LegalBench, MedQA and WMT 2014. University Checked automatically 93.8 Not in cards
CAIS Text Capabilities Index Averages model scores on the text tests that the Center for AI Safety runs for its AI Dashboard. On 2026-11-01 the index listed Humanity's Last Exam and TextQuests. Research frontier Checked automatically 66.5 Not in cards
CAIS Risk Index Averages seven safety measures that correlate weakly with general capability. They cover agent prompt injection, bioweapons help, political bias, overconfidence, lying under pressure and harmful or deceptive play in text games. Research frontier Checked automatically 26.2 Not in cards
HELM Capabilities Stanford CRFM runs language models on a curated set of scenarios, one per key capability, and averages the scores. Prompt-level results are public. University Checked automatically 81.9 Not in cards
CAIS Vision Capabilities Index Averages model scores on five vision tests run by the Center for AI Safety: ERQA, MindCube, SpatialViz-Bench, IntPhys 2 and EnigmaEval. Research frontier Checked automatically 83.3 Not in cards
Vals Multimodal Index Models are scored on a GDP-weighted mix of seven Vals finance, coding and education benchmarks, including MortgageTax and SAGE, which grades handwritten math work. Expert Graded by a model 74.2% Not in cards
Vals Science Index Agents are scored on the equal average of BioMysteryBench, MysteryMechanism and Terminal-Bench-Science. Expert Checked automatically 65.1% Not in cards
SuperCLUE The CLUE team tests Chinese and foreign language models on periodic sets of Chinese questions covering language, professional knowledge, reasoning, agents and safety. Open answers are graded by a strong LLM judge, and results feed an overall ranking. University Graded by a model 72.6 Not in cards
HELM Classic Models are evaluated with standardized prompts on the scenarios from the original HELM paper. Each scenario reports accuracy, calibration, robustness, fairness, bias, toxicity and efficiency. University Checked automatically 94.3 Not in cards
Hermes Index Nous Research averages pass@1 and cost per task over Hermes Bench, Terminal-Bench 4.0, Terminal-Bench Science and SkillsBench, all run in Hermes Agent. Expert Checked automatically 63.3 Not in cards
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 Version 4.1 of Artificial Analysis's index, which moved to GDPval-AA v2, Terminal-Bench 2.1 and τ³-Banking and put the most weight on agents. Checked automatically 61.0 In use
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 Version 4.0 of Artificial Analysis's index, ten evaluations in four equal categories that brought in real-world knowledge work and hallucination tests. Checked automatically 60.2 Fading
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 Version 4.3 of Artificial Analysis's index, eleven weighted parts led by knowledge work, office tasks and Terminal-Bench 4.0. Checked automatically 56.0 In use
Anthropic ECI (AECI) Index that combines a basket of capability benchmarks into one capability score to track trends across Anthropic models. Research frontier Checked automatically 169.4 System cards only
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v2 Artificial Analysis's index of seven public reasoning, knowledge, math and coding benchmarks, each run by Artificial Analysis. Checked automatically 67.7 Dropped
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v3 Version 3 of Artificial Analysis's index, ten evaluations that added agentic terminal and tool-use tasks to the knowledge, math and coding tests. Checked automatically 61.0 Dropped
Decision Index Decision models read a state and a typed question and return a decision. The index weights private same-skill sets and new-domain sets, equated on 21 base models. Everyday Checked automatically 67.6 Not in cards
AGI Score (A Definition of AGI) Experts test models on ten cognitive domains from Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory, such as reasoning, memory and perception, with adapted human psychometric tests. Each domain counts 10% toward a score out of 100%. Expert Graded by people 57% Not in cards
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 Version 5 of Artificial Analysis's index: nine evaluations in four equal categories, most with private test sets, run three times each in its own agent harness. Checked automatically 59.0 In use
Personal Superintelligence Index (Meta) Meta's composite of seven personal and knowledge-work evals: Agents' Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, FocusBench, JobBench, GDP.pdf, VBT and DRACO. Expert Checked automatically In use
Artificial Analysis Decision Index Decision models answer structured questions with a probability for each option. Four evaluations weighted equally cover classification, tool calling, knowledge with hallucination, and reasoning. Everyday Checked automatically Not in cards
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v1 Artificial Analysis's first composite score, called the Quality Index in 2024, which normalized and combined a few public benchmarks into one number. Checked automatically Not in cards
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v2.2 Version 2.2 of Artificial Analysis's index, which swapped the older math tests for AIME 2025 and added instruction following and long-context reasoning. Checked automatically Not in cards
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2 Version 4.2 of Artificial Analysis's index, which added multi-hour office work and document tasks and dropped GPQA Diamond. Checked automatically Not in cards
Artificial Analysis Progress Index Artificial Analysis's index that tracks how model capability changes over time on one continuous scale, launched alongside Intelligence Index v5. Checked automatically Not in cards
CompassRank OpenCompass ranks open and API language models on its own evaluation sets and publishes monthly rankings. Model makers submit a repository link or API endpoint to be tested. Expert Checked automatically Not in cards
Epoch Capabilities Index An index that fits model capability and benchmark difficulty from scores on over 50 benchmarks in Epoch AI's hub, using item response theory. Scores read like Elo ratings. Research frontier Checked automatically Not in cards
Fireworks Specialized Intelligence Index An index that gathers 66 practitioner-built benchmarks in 14 domains, such as legal, finance, healthcare and software. It combines score, cost and duration per benchmark into one number. Expert Graded by a model Not in cards
Open LLM Leaderboard v2 Hugging Face ran open models on IFEval, BBH, MATH Level 5, GPQA, MuSR and MMLU-Pro and averaged normalized scores. University Checked automatically Not in cards
Vals Router Index Model routers run all eight Vals Index v2.2 benchmarks through the same agents as single models and are scored with the Index weights. Expert Graded by a model Not in cards

Other

BenchmarkLevelScoredBest scoreStatus
ACCoRD Models state probabilities and preferences on conceptual questions, and the benchmark checks 567 expert-approved logical consistency constraints such as conjunction rules and order invariance. Expert Checked automatically 86.5 Not in cards
LMCA Models rate arguments against position texts on philosophy, decision theory, and AI risk. Scored by agreement with expert ratings, with a ceiling near 85. Expert Checked automatically 68.3% Not in cards
LiveBench Models answer monthly refreshed questions across math, coding, reasoning, language, instruction following, and data analysis. Scored automatically against objective ground truth. University Checked automatically 85.7% Dropped
SAGE (Vals) Models grade handwritten undergraduate work in PDEs, linear algebra and computer science against rubrics. Scores compare their deductions with expert graders. University Graded by people 56.1% Not in cards
Political Science LLM Benchmark 33 political-science text-coding tasks, 100 texts each (~3,300 items). Models scored by mean F1 against human-coded labels. University Checked automatically 71.4% Not in cards
SAGE v1.1 (Vals) Models grade handwritten undergraduate math and computer science work against rubrics. Scored by class-balanced accuracy of each rubric check against expert grading. University Graded by people 91.3% Not in cards
PhiBench Models answer original prompts that Microsoft's Phi team wrote to test a wide range of skills and reasoning. University Graded by a model 74.2% Dropped
Pile-test Models predict text from the test split of the Pile, an 800GB corpus of 22 sources. Scored by bits per byte. Checked automatically 0.55 Dropped
Qwen in-house English automatic evaluation Models answer Qwen in-house English datasets on knowledge, comprehension, coding, math and related skills. Skills and weights change between reports. Everyday Graded by a model 72.9% System cards only
Recognition of model-written user turns (Anthropic) Models write synthetic user turns for real Claude Code transcripts, then judge which version is real. Score is accuracy above chance. Expert Checked automatically 0.35 System cards only
JevBench Decision models, such as TypeSafe AI's Jev and compatible systems, answer typed decision questions. The board scores accuracy, probability calibration, latency and cost. Everyday Checked automatically Not in cards
MA-Bench Models do military mission analysis under the joint planning process on long-context scenarios, graded against expert rubrics. Expert Graded by a model Not in cards
MTEB Massive Text Embedding Benchmark: retrieval, clustering, classification across languages and modalities. Checked automatically Not in cards
MTEB Arena Users compare retrieval, clustering and similarity results from two anonymous embedding models and vote for the better one. Everyday Ranked by votes Not in cards
RTEB Embedding models retrieve documents on open and private datasets across 20 languages and domains such as law, healthcare, code and finance. Scored by NDCG@10. University Checked automatically Not in cards
StudentBench AI tutors teach real students GRE material and are scored by the students measured learning gains. A second study has expert tutors compare AI lesson plans and practice problems. University Settled by events Not in cards
TutorBench Models act as tutors on three tasks: adaptive explanations for a confused student, feedback on student work, and hints. Graded against sample-specific rubrics. University Graded by a model Not in cards
Xbench Measures firsthand X posts about frontier models and coding harnesses. An LLM labels each post's sentiment, aggregated per model per week. Ranked by votes Not in cards