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BenchCAD 2.1 Core

Core, 100 held-out cases across six tasks, at every reasoning effort. Two boards: the standard 2.1 harness, and customized harnesses such as a lab's own agent. Scores run from 0 to 1.

Leaderboard
RankModelHarnessScore±95%Cost / case
1OpenAI internal model (unreleased)credit to OpenAI · “Accelerating engineering for the physical world”, 2026-11-03 · 2.0 scorerCodex0.875—≈$38 (est.)
2Claude Fable 5.2 (max)credit to AnthropicClaude Code0.835—≈$51 (est.)
3Claude Opus 5.5 (max)credit to AnthropicClaude Code0.6530.014$20
4Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max)credit to AnthropicClaude Code0.6090.024$16
5Claude Fable 5.1 (max)credit to AnthropicClaude Code0.4440.022$35
6Claude Haiku 5.5 (max)credit to AnthropicClaude Code0.2290.009$3.2

Claude rows: credit to Anthropic, run in Claude Code; mean of passes over the 100 Core cases, ±95%. OpenAI's internal model: credit to OpenAI, run in Codex, from its post "Accelerating engineering for the physical world" (2026-11-03), scored with the BenchCAD 2.0 scorer (the only scoring change in 2.1 is stricter Task 6 matching, which costs imprecise or duplicated answers a little and leaves correct ones at 1.0); its cost is estimated from the post's relative-cost axis. Scores from different harnesses aren't comparable, so this board is kept apart from the standard one. Claude Fable 5.2: from Anthropic's Fable 5.2 system card (2026-11-09): the max-effort score is from the card's text; the other efforts (≈) and every cost are read from the card's cost chart, and its ±95% is shown only as error bars.

To add a line, run Core with the v2.1 tag and send us core_summary.json; see Core access and Setup. More in the 2.1 post.