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Cost/1M tokens

input
$2.00
cached
$0.50
output
$6.00
Context
500Ktokens
Released
3mo ago

Benchmarks

DeepSWE is the primary coding benchmark where an exact model evaluation exists. Arena leaderboards and other sourced evaluations appear below; missing scores are not zero.

How it ranks

Against its predecessor, similarly priced models and the models ranked around it.

DeepSWE 1.1

Best pass@1 per model · Higher is better

#9 of 28

Arena Text

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #69

  1. 1483
    Kimi K3.1 ProSimilar price
  2. 1478
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  3. 1466
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  4. 1457
    GPT-6 SolNearby rank
  5. 1457
    Seed 2.0 ProNearby rank
  6. 1456
    Grok 4.6
  7. 1456
  8. 1455
    GPT-5.1Similar price
  9. 1427
    Mistral Medium 3.5Similar price

-9 vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 1 of 4 similarly priced models

Arena WebDev

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #32

  1. 1676
    Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Similar price
  2. 1622
    GLM 5.3Nearby rank
  3. 1621
  4. 1618
    Grok 4.6
  5. 1615
    GPT-5.6 SolNearby rank
  6. 1609
    GLM 5.3 FlashNearby rank
  7. 1552
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  8. 1500
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  9. 1417
    GPT-5Similar price
  10. 1263
    Mistral Medium 3.5Similar price

+66 vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 3 of 4 similarly priced models

Arena Vision

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #41

  1. 1281
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  2. 1280
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  3. 1265
    Gemma 4 31BNearby rank
  4. 1265
    Kimi K2.6Nearby rank
  5. 1263
    Grok 4.6
  6. 1263
  7. 1263
    Claude Sonnet 5.5Similar price
  8. 1251
    GPT-5.1Similar price
  9. 1199
    Mistral Medium 3.5Similar price

-17 vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 1 of 4 similarly priced models

Arena Search

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Not ranked on Arena Search yet

Arena Document

Best Arena rating per model · Higher is better

Arena #34

  1. 1480
    Muse Spark 1.1Similar price
  2. 1469
    Claude Sonnet 5Similar price
  3. 1466
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  4. 1459
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  5. 1451
  6. 1450
    Kimi K2.6Nearby rank
  7. 1450
    Grok 4.6
  8. 1448
  9. 1446
    Qwen3.7 PlusNearby rank
  10. 1416
    GPT-5.1Similar price

-16 vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 1 of 4 similarly priced models

Agent Arena

Best IPS score per model · Higher is better

Arena #34

  1. +0.170
    Gemini 4 CarbonSimilar price
  2. +0.160
    Claude Sonnet 5.5Similar price
  3. +0.049
    Kimi K3.1 ProSimilar price
  4. +0.001
    Qwen3.8 MaxNearby rank
  5. -0.000
    MiMo-V2.6-FlashNearby rank
  6. -0.002
    Grok 4.6
  7. -0.018
    GPT-5.6 TerraNearby rank
  8. -0.022
    Gemini 3.7 FlashNearby rank
  9. -0.137
    Mistral Medium 3.5Similar price

Ahead of 1 of 4 similarly priced models

ARC-AGI-2

Best score per model · Higher is better

#27 of 85

  1. 83.9%
    Claude Sonnet 5.5Similar price
  2. 72.1%
    Claude Opus 4.8Nearby rank
  3. 72.1%
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  4. 67.1%
    Grok 4.6
  5. 65.8%
    GLM 5.3 FlashNearby rank
  6. 65.1%
    Grok 4.20Nearby rank
  7. 60.4%
    Kimi K3Similar price
  8. 52.6%
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  9. 17.6%
    GPT-5.1Similar price

+14.4 pts vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 2 of 4 similarly priced models

FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#32 of 72

  1. 80.5%
    Claude Sonnet 5.5Similar price
  2. 34.1%
    Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Similar price
  3. 31.7%
    Claude Opus 4.7Nearby rank
  4. 31.7%
    Grok 4.6
  5. 31.7%
    GPT-5.2Nearby rank
  6. 29.3%
    Claude Sonnet 5Nearby rank
  7. 26.8%
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  8. 24.4%
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  9. 22.0%
    GPT-5Similar price

+7.3 pts vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 2 of 4 similarly priced models

FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private

Best score per model · Higher is better

#34 of 87

  1. 88.8%
    Claude Sonnet 5.5Similar price
  2. 67.4%
  3. 66.0%
    Claude Opus 4.6Nearby rank
  4. 66.0%
    Grok 4.6
  5. 65.6%
    Claude Sonnet 5Nearby rank
  6. 65.6%
    Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Similar price
  7. 62.8%
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  8. 57.2%
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  9. 55.4%
    GPT-5Similar price

+8.8 pts vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 3 of 4 similarly priced models

GPQA diamond

Best score per model · Higher is better

#13 of 161

  1. 94.3%
    GPT-6.1 TerraNearby rank
  2. 94.1%
    Gemini 3.6 FlashNearby rank
  3. 94.0%
    Grok 4.6
  4. 93.9%
    Claude Fable 5.2Nearby rank
  5. 93.9%
    Claude Opus 5Nearby rank
  6. 93.4%
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  7. 92.8%
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  8. 92.3%
    Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Similar price
  9. 87.6%
    GPT-5.1Similar price
  10. 49.0%
    Mistral Large 2407Similar price

+0.6 pts vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 4 of 4 similarly priced models

OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025

Best score per model · Higher is better

#17 of 158

  1. 100.0%
    Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Similar price
  2. 99.4%
  3. 99.2%
    Muse Spark 1.3Nearby rank
  4. 99.2%
    Grok 4.6
  5. 98.9%
    Claude Haiku 5.5Nearby rank
  6. 98.9%
    Claude Opus 5Nearby rank
  7. 97.8%
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  8. 95.6%
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  9. 91.4%
    GPT-5Similar price
  10. 8.5%
    Mistral Large 2407Similar price

+1.4 pts vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 3 of 4 similarly priced models

SimpleQA Verified

Best score per model · Higher is better

#32 of 87

  1. 66.2%
    Gemini 3.5 FlashSimilar price
  2. 50.1%
    GPT-5Similar price
  3. 49.4%
    o3Nearby rank
  4. 49.3%
    Grok 4.6
  5. 48.7%
    Qwen3 MaxNearby rank
  6. 48.3%
    Grok 4.5Predecessor
  7. 47.3%
    Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Similar price
  8. 46.5%
    Claude Sonnet 5.5Similar price

+1.0 pts vs Grok 4.5 (predecessor) · Ahead of 2 of 4 similarly priced models

DeepSWE 1.1

Primary coding-agent benchmark · 113 tasks · Data generated 2026-09-22

Official leaderboard
67.5%
pass@1 · highest published configuration
mini-swe-agent · medium reasoning
pass@4
84.1%
Average cost / attempt
$3.45
Benchmark runs
4

Score vs cost by reasoning effort

Average cost per attempt (USD) against pass rate

All published configurations

Harness / reasoningpass@1pass@4Cost / attempt
mini-swe-agent · medium67.5%84.1%$3.45
mini-swe-agent · xhigh66.7%85.0%$5.50
mini-swe-agent · high65.2%85.0%$4.38
mini-swe-agent · low41.6%69.0%$1.04

pass@1 is the success rate across scored attempts; pass@4 is the share of tasks solved in at least one of four attempts. Costs are reported by DeepSWE for each configuration. These results are not directly comparable to evaluations using different harnesses. Official source JSON.

Reasoning effort

ARC-AGI-2

Score by reasoning effort · Higher is better

GPQA diamond

Score by reasoning effort · Higher is better

OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025

Score by reasoning effort · Higher is better

SimpleQA Verified

Score by reasoning effort · Higher is better

All published scores

Benchmark compilation: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (CC BY attribution). Scores are converted to percentages and model names matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog. Individual evaluations are credited to their original sources. External results may carry separate licences and evaluation configurations; do not interpret scores from different harnesses as directly comparable.

Arena ratings: Arena (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), licensed CC BY 4.0. Ratings come from pairwise human votes and are only comparable within one leaderboard; the interval is Arena's 95% confidence interval. Model names are matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog.

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