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A challenging dataset of 448 multiple-choice questions written by domain experts in biology, physics, and chemistry. Questions are Google-proof and extremely difficult, with PhD experts reaching 65% accuracy.
A more robust and challenging multi-task language understanding benchmark that extends MMLU by expanding multiple-choice options from 4 to 10, eliminating trivial questions, and focusing on reasoning-intensive tasks. Features over 12,000 curated questions across 14 domains and causes a 16-33% accuracy drop compared to original MMLU.
All 30 problems from the 2025 American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME I and AIME II), testing olympiad-level mathematical reasoning with integer answers from 000-999. Used as an AI benchmark to evaluate large language models' ability to solve complex mathematical problems requiring multi-step logical deductions and structured symbolic reasoning.
A verified subset of 500 software engineering problems from real GitHub issues, validated by human annotators for evaluating language models' ability to resolve real-world coding issues by generating patches for Python codebases.
Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a multi-modal academic benchmark with 2,500 questions across mathematics, humanities, and natural sciences, designed to test LLM capabilities at the frontier of human knowledge with unambiguous, verifiable solutions
Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmark testing knowledge across 57 diverse subjects including STEM, humanities, social sciences, and professional domains
LiveCodeBench is a holistic and contamination-free evaluation benchmark for large language models for code. It continuously collects new problems from programming contests (LeetCode, AtCoder, CodeForces) and evaluates four different scenarios: code generation, self-repair, code execution, and test output prediction. Problems are annotated with release dates to enable evaluation on unseen problems released after a model's training cutoff.
A more robust multi-discipline multimodal understanding benchmark that enhances MMMU through a three-step process: filtering text-only answerable questions, augmenting candidate options, and introducing vision-only input settings. Achieves significantly lower model performance (16.8-26.9%) compared to original MMMU, providing more rigorous evaluation that closely mimics real-world scenarios.
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OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is released as gpt-6-astra. Standard pricing is $10/$1 cached/$12.50 cache write/$50 per 1M, with 1.05M context and 128K output.
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Anthropic's Fable 5.1 is GA on September 1, 2026 at the same $10/$50 as Fable 5. Cache reads drop to $0.25. Self-reported Terminal-Bench-Science 52.6 vs Fable 5's 24.7. Mythos 5.1 is the trusted-access twin.
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Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash is the first natively multimodal GLM-5. 320B/18B, 1M context, MIT weights. Self-reported DeepSWE 63.4 vs GLM-5.2 46.2. List $0.15/$0.50 per 1M. Not text-only GLM-5.3.
Sebastian Crossa··9 minA practical guide to choosing the right LLM
Identify your primary task—code generation (HumanEval, SWE-bench), mathematical reasoning (MATH, GSM8K), or general knowledge (MMLU). Different benchmarks measure different capabilities.
API pricing ranges from $0.15/M tokens for lightweight models to $60+/M for frontier models. Use our comparison tool to find the best ratio.
Smaller models like GPT-4o-mini or Claude 3.5 Haiku offer faster responses. Reasoning models (o1, DeepSeek-R1) trade latency for accuracy on complex tasks.
Benchmarks provide signals, but real performance depends on your prompts. Create an evaluation set from actual use cases. Our AI Arena enables side-by-side comparison.
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