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11.6T
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
235B
3
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B
4284B1.0M$0.14 / $0.28
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Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
1.0T
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Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
1.0T
7284B1.0M$0.10 / $0.20
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek
671B
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About this benchmark

What is CSimpleQA?

Chinese SimpleQA is the first comprehensive Chinese benchmark to evaluate the factuality ability of language models to answer short questions. It contains 3,000 high-quality questions spanning 6 major topics with 99 diverse subtopics, designed to assess Chinese factual knowledge across humanities, science, engineering, culture, and society.

CSimpleQA is a text benchmark evaluating models on language and general tasks. LLM Stats tracks 8 models on this benchmark, scored on a 0–1 scale. The current average is 0.8, with the leader at 0.8.

Compare leaders on the best AI for language and best AI for general leaderboards.

Current leaders

DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Max from DeepSeek currently leads the CSimpleQA leaderboard with a score of 0.844 across 8 evaluated AI models.

1DeepSeek-V4-Pro-MaxDeepSeek84.4%
2Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team84.3%
3Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team83.4%

Source paper

Title
Chinese SimpleQA: A Chinese Factuality Evaluation for Large Language Models
Authors
Yancheng He, Shilong Li, Jiaheng Liu, Yingshui Tan, and 14 others
Published
Abstract

New LLM evaluation benchmarks are important to align with the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we present Chinese SimpleQA, the first comprehensive Chinese benchmark to evaluate the factuality ability of language models to answer short questions, and Chinese SimpleQA mainly has five properties (i.e., Chinese, Diverse, High-quality, Static, Easy-to-evaluate). Specifically, first, we focus on the Chinese language over 6 major topics with 99 diverse subtopics. Second, we conduct a comprehensive quality control process to achieve high-quality questions and answers, where the reference answers are static and cannot be changed over time. Third, following SimpleQA, the questions and answers are very short, and the grading process is easy-to-evaluate based on OpenAI API. Based on Chinese SimpleQA, we perform a comprehensive evaluation on the factuality abilities of existing LLMs. Finally, we hope that Chinese SimpleQA could guide the developers to better understand the Chinese factuality abilities of their models and facilitate the growth of foundation models.

FAQ

Common questions about the CSimpleQA benchmark and leaderboard.

What is the CSimpleQA benchmark?

Chinese SimpleQA is the first comprehensive Chinese benchmark to evaluate the factuality ability of language models to answer short questions. It contains 3,000 high-quality questions spanning 6 major topics with 99 diverse subtopics, designed to assess Chinese factual knowledge across humanities, science, engineering, culture, and society.

What is the CSimpleQA leaderboard?

The CSimpleQA leaderboard ranks 8 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Max by DeepSeek leads with a score of 0.844. The average score across all models is 0.781.

What is the highest CSimpleQA score?

The highest CSimpleQA score is 0.844, achieved by DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Max from DeepSeek.

How many models are evaluated on CSimpleQA?

8 models have been evaluated on the CSimpleQA benchmark, with 0 verified results and 8 self-reported results.

Where can I find the CSimpleQA paper?

The CSimpleQA paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07140. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does CSimpleQA cover?

CSimpleQA is categorized under language and general. The benchmark evaluates text models with multilingual support.

What is the best open-source model on CSimpleQA?

DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Max by DeepSeek is the top-ranked open-source model on CSimpleQA, with a score of 0.844 (rank #1).

Which model offers the best value on CSimpleQA?

Among models scoring within 10% of the leader, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Max from DeepSeek is the cheapest, at $0.14 per million input tokens with a score of 0.789.

How recent are the CSimpleQA leaderboard results?

The CSimpleQA leaderboard was last updated in August 2026 and currently includes 8 evaluated models.