AIME 2026
All 30 problems from the 2026 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.
Kimi K2.6 from Moonshot AI currently leads the AIME 2026 leaderboard with a score of 0.964 across 12 evaluated AI models.
Kimi K2.6 leads with 96.4%, followed by 
Qwen3.6 Plus at 95.3% and 
GLM-5.1 at 95.3%.
Progress Over Time
Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on AIME 2026
AIME 2026 Leaderboard
| Context | Cost | License | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moonshot AI | 1.0T | 262K | $0.95 / $4.00 | ||
| 2 |  Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | — | 1.0M | $0.50 / $3.00 | ||
| 2 | Zhipu AI | 754B | 200K | $1.40 / $4.40 | ||
| 4 |  ByteDance | — | — | — | ||
| 5 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 28B | 262K | $0.60 / $3.60 | ||
| 6 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 35B | — | — | ||
| 7 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 397B | 262K | $0.60 / $3.60 | ||
| 8 |  Google | 31B | 262K | $0.14 / $0.40 | ||
| 9 | Google | 25B | 262K | $0.13 / $0.40 | ||
| 9 | ByteDance | — | — | — | ||
| 11 | Google | 8B | — | — | ||
| 12 | Google | 5B | — | — |
FAQ
Common questions about AIME 2026.
More evaluations to explore
Related benchmarks in the same category
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.
Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmark testing knowledge across 57 diverse subjects including STEM, humanities, social sciences, and professional domains
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