Tau2 Telecom

τ²-Bench telecom domain evaluates conversational agents in a dual-control environment modeled as a Dec-POMDP, where both agent and user use tools in shared telecommunications troubleshooting scenarios that test coordination and communication capabilities.

Claude Opus 4.6 from Anthropic currently leads the Tau2 Telecom leaderboard with a score of 0.993 across 30 evaluated AI models.

Paper

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.6 leads with 99.3%, followed by MeituanLongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 at 99.3% and OpenAIGPT-5.4 at 98.9%.

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Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on Tau2 Telecom

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Tau2 Telecom Leaderboard

30 models
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11.0M$5.00 / $25.00
1560B
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OpenAI
OpenAI
1.0M$2.50 / $15.00
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OpenAI
OpenAI
400K$1.75 / $14.00
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OpenAI
OpenAI
1.1M$5.00 / $30.00
7200K$3.00 / $15.00
81.0T
9
OpenAI
OpenAI
10
OpenAI
OpenAI
400K$1.25 / $10.00
10400K$1.25 / $10.00
10400K$1.25 / $10.00
13400K$0.75 / $4.50
14400K$0.20 / $1.25
15
16230B1.0M$0.30 / $1.20
16
MiniMax
MiniMax
230B1.0M$0.30 / $1.20
18560B
19200K$1.00 / $5.00
20560B128K$0.30 / $1.20
2169B256K$0.10 / $0.40
221.0T
22
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
1.0T
24120B
25
OpenAI
OpenAI
26
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
235B
27
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
80B
2832B262K$0.06 / $0.24
29
OpenAI
OpenAI
128K$2.50 / $10.00
30
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
80B
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FAQ

Common questions about Tau2 Telecom.

What is the Tau2 Telecom benchmark?

τ²-Bench telecom domain evaluates conversational agents in a dual-control environment modeled as a Dec-POMDP, where both agent and user use tools in shared telecommunications troubleshooting scenarios that test coordination and communication capabilities.

What is the Tau2 Telecom leaderboard?

The Tau2 Telecom leaderboard ranks 30 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic leads with a score of 0.993. The average score across all models is 0.786.

What is the highest Tau2 Telecom score?

The highest Tau2 Telecom score is 0.993, achieved by Claude Opus 4.6 from Anthropic.

How many models are evaluated on Tau2 Telecom?

30 models have been evaluated on the Tau2 Telecom benchmark, with 0 verified results and 30 self-reported results.

Where can I find the Tau2 Telecom paper?

The Tau2 Telecom paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07982. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does Tau2 Telecom cover?

Tau2 Telecom is categorized under tool calling, communication, and reasoning. The benchmark evaluates text models.

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