Benchmark profile
HealthBench Professional
An open benchmark for clinician-facing model responses across care consult, writing and documentation, and medical research tasks.
Data verifiedBenchmark score on HealthBench Professional — July 29, 2026
BenchLM mirrors the published score view for HealthBench Professional. GPT-5.6 Sol leads the public snapshot at 60.5% , followed by Claude Opus 5 (59.8%) and Muse Spark 1.1 (59.3%). BenchLM does not use these results to rank models overall.
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
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Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
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Muse Spark 1.1
Meta
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Benchmark score table (6 models)
ScoreThe published HealthBench Professional snapshot places GPT-5.6 Sol first at 60.5%. The third row is 1.2 points behind. The broader top-10 range is 12.4 points, so the table still separates the published systems.
6 models have been evaluated on HealthBench Professional. The benchmark falls in the Knowledge category. This category carries a 12% weight in BenchLM.ai's overall scoring system. HealthBench Professional is currently displayed for reference but excluded from the scoring formula, so it does not directly affect overall rankings.
About HealthBench Professional
Year
2026
Tasks
Clinician chat tasks
Format
Rubric-graded open-ended responses
Difficulty
Professional clinical workflows
HealthBench Professional uses physician-authored clinician conversations and physician-written rubrics to evaluate model responses on difficult clinical tasks. BenchLM tracks it as a display-only health benchmark because some source rows include product harnesses rather than raw base-model capability.
BenchLM freshness & provenance
Version
HealthBench Professional 2026
Refresh cadence
Quarterly
Staleness state
Current
Question availability
Public benchmark set
BenchLM uses freshness metadata to decide whether a benchmark should still be treated as a strong differentiator, a benchmark to watch, or a display-only reference. For the full scoring policy, see the BenchLM methodology page.
FAQ
What does HealthBench Professional measure?
An open benchmark for clinician-facing model responses across care consult, writing and documentation, and medical research tasks.
Which model scores highest on HealthBench Professional?
GPT-5.6 Sol by OpenAI currently leads with a score of 60.5% on HealthBench Professional.
How many models are evaluated on HealthBench Professional?
6 AI models have been evaluated on HealthBench Professional on BenchLM.
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