Benchmark Almanac

OpenAI deep research

OpenAI deep research ranks first on 3 of the 26 benchmarks it has scores on.

OpenAI Released 2 Feb 2025 Family o3 The lab's model card
36
Benchmarks with a score
3
Ranked first, out of five or more models
7
In the top three
OpenAI Feb 2025

OpenAI deep research

Closed weights Flagship

No Epoch Capabilities Index score yet
  • SWE-Lancer 53% #5 /10
  • Multimodal Troubleshooting Virology 55% #9 /26
  • ProtocolQA Open-Ended 28% #19 /25

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
PersonQA 86% #2 of 9 Model card
Humanity's Last Exam 26.6% #81 of 147 Model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Agentic tasks (autonomous replication and adaptation) 78% #1 of 4 Model card
SWE-Lancer Diamond (SWE Manager) 51% #1 of 4 Model card
OpenAI PRs 42% #6 of 12 Model card
SWE-Lancer 53% #5 of 10 Model card
SWE-bench Verified 68% #88 of 150 Model card
OpenAI Research Engineer Interview: Multiple Choice 78% #6 of 9 Model card
MLE-bench 11% #14 of 18 Model card
OpenAI Research Engineer Interview: Coding 79% #6 of 7 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SnakeBench 30 #39 of 183 Official leaderboard
DeepSearchQA 44.2% #5 of 10 Official leaderboard
DeepResearch Bench 46.5% #2 of 4 Official leaderboard
LiveResearchBench 62.9 #4 of 7 Official leaderboard
GAIA 67.4% #5 of 5 Model card
DeepResearch Bench II 43.1% #1 of 1 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BioLP-bench 49% #1 of 9 Model card
Capture the Flag (High School) 82% #1 of 9 Model card
WMDP Biology 90% #1 of 7 Model card
Capture the Flag (Collegiate) 55% #2 of 13 Model card
Contextual Nuclear Knowledge 77% #1 of 4 Model card
Radiological and Nuclear Expert Knowledge 74% #1 of 4 Model card
MakeMePay 36% #2 of 6 Model card
Long-form Biological Risk Questions 0% #1 of 3 Model card
Multimodal Troubleshooting Virology 55% #9 of 26 Model card
ChangeMyView 84.1% #2 of 5 Model card
Tacit Knowledge and Troubleshooting 72% #13 of 29 Model card
StrongREJECT 93% #10 of 22 Model card
Capture the Flag (Professional) 47% #10 of 21 Model card
Challenging Red Teaming Evaluation 2 (created for deep research) 67% #1 of 2 Model card
MakeMeSay 24% #6 of 9 Model card
ProtocolQA Open-Ended 28% #19 of 25 Model card
Standard Refusal Evaluation 97% #7 of 8 Model card
Challenging Refusal Evaluation 89% #8 of 9 Model card
Challenging Red Teaming Evaluation 1 (created for o3-mini) 50% #2 of 2 Model card
Red Teaming Network pairwise safety comparison 59.2% #2 of 2 Model card

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 32 of them aren't in the launch post.

Hallucination

Persuasion