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WeirdML v3

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Håvard Tveit Ihle's WeirdML v3 gives coding agents 11 hand-made machine-learning and data-analysis tasks with unfamiliar data, unspecified goals or very limited feedback, and scores how well and how efficiently they improve as they spend tokens.

Official score on WeirdML v3 — WeirdML v3

We mirror the published official score view for WeirdML v3. Claude Fable 5.2 (xhigh) leads the public snapshot at 43.0%, followed by GPT-6 Astra (xhigh) (42.2%) and GPT-6.1 Sol (xhigh) (38.3%). We do not use these results to rank models overall.

29 modelsCodingCurrentDisplay onlyUpdated WeirdML v3

Official score table (29 models)

Official score results for WeirdML v3
RankModel / configurationScoreParameters (B)Open / closed
1Claude Fable 5.2 (xhigh)Anthropicclaude_code · xhigh reasoning
43.0%
Not reportedClosed
2GPT-6 Astra (xhigh)OpenAIcodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
42.2%
Not reportedClosed
3GPT-6.1 Sol (xhigh)OpenAIcodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
38.3%
Not reportedClosed
4Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh)Anthropicclaude_code · xhigh reasoning
31.2%
Not reportedClosed
5GPT-6.1 Terra (xhigh)OpenAIcodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
28.1%
Not reportedClosed
6Claude Fable 5.1 (xhigh)Anthropicclaude_code · xhigh reasoning
26.0%
Not reportedClosed
7Gemini 4 Argon (high)Googlegemini_cli · high reasoning
20.3%
Not reportedClosed
8Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xhigh)Anthropicclaude_code · xhigh reasoning
19.9%
Not reportedClosed
9GPT-6 Sol (xhigh)OpenAIcodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
19.7%
Not reportedClosed
10Claude Opus 5 (xhigh)Anthropicclaude_code · xhigh reasoning
19.0%
Not reportedClosed
11Claude Fable 5 (xhigh)Anthropicclaude_code · xhigh reasoning
15.6%
Not reportedClosed
12Muse Wonder (xhigh)Metacodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
15.1%
Not reportedClosed
13GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh)OpenAIcodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
15.0%
Not reportedClosed
14Claude Haiku 5.5 (xhigh)Anthropicclaude_code · xhigh reasoning
11.7%
Not reportedClosed
15Kimi K3.1 Pro (xhigh, Fireworks)Moonshot AIkimi_code · xhigh reasoning
9.9%
Not reportedOpen
16DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (high, InferenceNet)DeepSeekcodex_cli · high reasoning
9.1%
Not reportedOpen
17Grok 4.7 (xhigh)xAIcodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
8.5%
Not reportedClosed
18GPT-6 Luna (xhigh)OpenAIcodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
7.9%
Not reportedClosed
19Kimi K3 (high, Fireworks)Moonshot AIkimi_code · high reasoning
7.5%
Not reportedOpen
20Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)Googlegemini_cli · high reasoning
7.4%
Not reportedClosed
21Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh)Metacodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
6.7%
Not reportedClosed
22Claude Opus 4.5 (high)Anthropicclaude_code · high reasoning
6.5%
Not reportedClosed
23DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (high, Novita)DeepSeekopencode · high reasoning
5.9%
Not reportedOpen
24DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (high, Novita)DeepSeekcodex_cli · high reasoning
5.8%
Not reportedOpen
25GPT-5.6 Luna (xhigh)OpenAIcodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
5.2%
Not reportedClosed
26GPT-5.2 (xhigh)OpenAIcodex_cli · xhigh reasoning
5.0%
Not reportedClosed
27Mistral Large 4 (high, Mistral)Mistralopencode · high reasoning
4.2%
Not reportedClosed
28Inkling (xhigh, Together)Unknownopencode · xhigh reasoning
3.9%
Not reportedOpen
29Inkling (xhigh, DeepInfra)Unknownopencode · xhigh reasoning
3.7%
Not reportedOpen

WeirdML

BenchLM mirrors WeirdML average-accuracy scores from the official CSV. WeirdML is excluded from BenchLM overall and category rankings.

WeirdML; source configurations remain separate from the canonical benchmark table.
Source rankSource model or configurationAverage accuracySource setupParameters (B)Open / closed
1gpt-6-astra-pro (max)OpenAI93.57%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
2GPT-6 AstraOpenAI93.26%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
3Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic92.90%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
4GPT-6 AstraOpenAI92.87%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
5Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic92.30%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
6Claude Fable 5Anthropic91.94%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
7Claude Opus 5Anthropic91.78%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
8Claude Opus 5Anthropic91.59%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
9gpt-5.6-sol-pro (max)OpenAI89.43%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
10GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI88.76%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
11Claude Fable 5Anthropic87.85%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
12GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI86.97%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
13Claude Opus 5Anthropic86.34%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
14GPT-5.5OpenAI84.91%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
15Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle84.81%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
16GPT-5.5OpenAI83.90%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
17Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic82.89%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
18Kimi K3Moonshot AI82.57%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
19GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI78.27%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
20Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic77.95%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
21GPT-5.3 CodexOpenAI77.90%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
22GPT-5.4OpenAI77.70%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
23qwen3.8-2.4t-a95b (xhigh)Alibaba76.49%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
24Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic76.44%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
25Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic76.40%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
26Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic76.04%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
27Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic75.49%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
28GLM-5.3Z.AI75.40%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
29GPT-5.2OpenAI72.19%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
30gemini-3.1-pro-preview (high)Google72.07%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
31Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic70.45%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
32GLM-5.2Z.AI70.12%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
33gemini-3-pro-preview (high)Google69.93%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
34Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic68.98%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
35GLM-5.2Z.AI67.31%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
36Grok 4.6xAI67.29%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
37GPT-5.5OpenAI67.15%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
38DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek66.22%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
39Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic66.07%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
40Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic65.87%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
41Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic63.74%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
42GPT-5.2OpenAI63.44%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
43DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek62.96%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
44Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle62.64%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
45gemini-3-flash-preview (high)Google61.60%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
46GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI60.86%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
47GPT-5.1OpenAI60.77%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
48gpt-5 (high)OpenAI60.70%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
49gpt-5-pro (high)OpenAI60.39%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
50Muse Spark 1.2Meta60.38%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
51GPT-5.4 miniOpenAI60.30%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
52o3-proOpenAI58.21%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
53GPT-5.4OpenAI57.44%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
54GLM-5.1Z.AI57.10%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
55DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek57.05%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
56Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle56.10%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
57kimi-k2.6Moonshot AI55.86%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
58gpt-5-codex (high)OpenAI54.53%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
59Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI54.12%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
60Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle54.03%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
61GPT-5 miniOpenAI52.67%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
62o4-mini (high)OpenAI52.56%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
63o3OpenAI52.42%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
64Grok 4.20xAI52.26%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
65gemma4-31bUnknown52.26%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
66gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview (high)Google52.19%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
67Grok 4.3xAI49.89%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
68GPT-5.2OpenAI49.60%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
69GPT-5.4 nanoOpenAI49.23%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
70DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek48.61%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
71GLM-5Z.AI48.17%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
72GPT-OSS 120BOpenAI48.17%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
73claude-sonnet-4.5 (thinking 16k)Anthropic47.71%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
74o1-previewOpenAI47.56%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
75deepseek-v3.2-specialeDeepSeek46.73%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
76claude-sonnet-4.5 (no thinking)Anthropic46.70%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
77DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek46.53%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
78Grok 4.5xAI46.43%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
79Claude 4 SonnetAnthropic46.11%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
80o1OpenAI46.08%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
81claude-opus-4.1 (thinking 16k)Anthropic45.86%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
82grok-4-07-09xAI45.73%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
83DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek45.63%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
84Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI45.60%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
85claude-haiku-4.5 (no thinking)Anthropic45.40%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
86claude-haiku-4.5 (thinking 16k)Anthropic44.15%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
87Claude 4 SonnetAnthropic43.88%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
88DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731DeepSeek43.76%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
89o3-mini (high)OpenAI43.75%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
90Claude 4 OpusAnthropic43.72%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
91mistral-medium-3.5-128bMistral43.71%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
92nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55bNVIDIA43.45%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
93Mercury 2Inception43.20%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
94grok-4-fastxAI42.86%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
95kimi-k2-thinkingMoonshot AI42.79%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
96Grok 3 MinixAI42.58%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
97gemini-2.5-flash-09-25 (thinking 16k)Google41.91%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
98GPT-OSS 120BOpenAI41.88%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
99DeepSeek-R1-0528DeepSeek41.63%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
100qwen3-coderAlibaba41.17%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
101qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507Alibaba41.04%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
102Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle40.95%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
103GPT-OSS 20BOpenAI40.93%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
104GLM-4.5Z.AI40.58%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
105Claude 3.5 SonnetAnthropic39.97%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
106gpt-5-chatOpenAI39.77%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
107qwen3.5-27bAlibaba39.53%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
108deepseek-v3.2-exp (thinking)DeepSeek39.48%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
109gpt-4.5OpenAI39.37%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
110Kimi K2Moonshot AI39.36%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
111GPT-4.1OpenAI39.04%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
112Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle39.00%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
113qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25Alibaba38.70%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
114deepseek-chat-v3.1 (thinking)DeepSeek38.36%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
115GPT-5 nanoOpenAI38.06%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
116nemotron-3-super-120b-a12bNVIDIA38.01%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
117GPT-5.4 nanoOpenAI37.96%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
118GPT-5.4 miniOpenAI37.90%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
119GPT-4.1 miniOpenAI37.61%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
120deepseek-chat-v3.1DeepSeek37.50%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
121Qwen3 235B-A22BAlibaba37.28%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
122grok-3xAI37.24%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
123MiniMax M2.7MiniMax36.95%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
124GPT-OSS 20BOpenAI36.83%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
125kimi-k2-0905Moonshot AI36.68%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
126DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek36.49%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
127o1-miniOpenAI36.32%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
128deepseek-v3-0324DeepSeek36.08%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
129gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17 (thinking 16k)Google35.22%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
130gemma4-26b-a4bUnknown35.17%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
131Grok Code Fast 1xAI35.06%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
132qwen3.6-35b-a3bAlibaba34.49%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
133qwen3-coder-nextAlibaba34.40%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
134mistral-medium-3.1Mistral33.13%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
135InklingThinking Machines Lab32.29%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
136Claude 3.5 SonnetAnthropic30.97%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
137Claude 3.5 HaikuAnthropic30.73%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
138qwen3-30b-a3b (thinking)Alibaba29.75%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
139GPT-5 nanoOpenAI25.89%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
140gemini-2.0-flash-001Google25.77%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
141GPT-4oOpenAI25.12%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
142gemini-flash-1.5-002Google24.87%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
143Llama 4 MaverickMeta24.47%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
144grok-2-1212xAI22.24%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
145gemini-pro-1.5-002Google22.20%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
146llama-3.1-405b-instructMeta21.38%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
147Claude 3 OpusAnthropic19.22%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
148GPT-4.1 nanoOpenAI18.98%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
149GPT-4 TurboOpenAI18.01%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
150qwen-2.5-72b-instructAlibaba15.97%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
151llama-3.3-70b-instructMeta14.44%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
152deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8bAlibaba12.99%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
153gpt-4-0613OpenAI12.36%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
154GPT-4o miniOpenAI11.76%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
155qwen2-72b-instructAlibaba11.30%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
156claude-3-sonnetAnthropic10.16%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
157Claude 3 HaikuAnthropic9.84%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
158llama-3.1-70b-instructMeta8.97%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
159claude-2.1Anthropic7.06%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
160gpt-3.5-turbo-0125OpenAI3.48%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
161mixtral-8x22b-instructUnknown3.17%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
162llama-3.1-8b-instructMeta1.73%Havard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown

WeirdML v1

BenchLM mirrors the final WeirdML v1 average-accuracy table. WeirdML v1 is excluded from BenchLM overall and category rankings.

WeirdML v1; source configurations remain separate from the canonical benchmark table.
Source rankSource model or configurationAverage accuracySource setupParameters (B)Open / closed
1gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25Google61.05%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
2gpt-4.5-preview-2025-02-27OpenAI60.26%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
3o4-mini-2025-04-16 (high)OpenAI59.68%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
4o1-2024-12-17 (high)OpenAI59.47%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
5claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 (thinking 8k)Anthropic55.69%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
6o3-2025-04-16 (high)OpenAI55.13%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
7gemini-2.5-flash-preview (thinking 16k)Google53.76%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
8Claude 3.7 SonnetAnthropic53.03%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
9GPT-4.1 miniOpenAI52.83%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
10Grok 3 [Beta]xAI52.08%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
11DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek51.44%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
12o3-mini-2025-01-31 (high)OpenAI51.33%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
13Claude 3.5 SonnetAnthropic50.94%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
14DeepSeek-R1-0528DeepSeek50.37%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
15deepseek-chat-v3-0324DeepSeek49.95%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
16GPT-4.1OpenAI49.20%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
17o1-previewOpenAI48.82%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
18grok-3-mini-beta (high)xAI47.67%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
19Qwen3 235B-A22BAlibaba45.87%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
20o1-miniOpenAI45.58%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
21Llama 4 MaverickMeta44.24%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
22gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21Google43.90%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
23Claude 3.5 HaikuAnthropic43.75%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
24qwen3-30b-a3bAlibaba41.06%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
25QwQ-32BAlibaba39.89%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
26gemini-2.0-flash-expGoogle39.05%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
27gemini-2.0-pro-exp-02-05Google38.03%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
28DeepSeek V3DeepSeek37.37%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
29GPT-4oOpenAI36.15%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
30GPT-4 TurboOpenAI33.60%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
31Mistral Medium 3Mistral31.92%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
32grok-2-1212xAI27.62%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
33qwq:32b-preview-q8_0Alibaba25.80%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
34GPT-4.1 nanoOpenAI25.73%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
35qwen2.5-coder:32b-instruct-q8_0Alibaba25.42%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
36GPT-4o miniOpenAI23.64%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedClosed
37llama3.3:70b-instruct-q8_0Meta23.48%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
38llama3.1:405b-instruct-q4_K_MMeta23.00%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
39phi4:14b-q8_0Microsoft13.16%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
40gemma-3-27b-itGoogle13.14%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
41Llama 4 ScoutMeta8.31%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedOpen
42gemma2:27b-instruct-q8_0Google5.30%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
43gpt-3.5-turbo-0125OpenAI5.07%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown
44llama3.1:8b-instruct-q8_0Meta1.96%Håvard Tveit IhleOriginal resultNot reportedUnknown

How to read this leaderboard

Higher is better. Because the score rewards reaching good results with fewer tokens, it is not comparable with WeirdML v2's average accuracy. Claude Fable 5.2 (xhigh, Claude Code) leads at 43.0, ahead of GPT-6 Astra (42.2) and GPT-6.1 Sol (38.3).

Operator receipt: 29 sourced rows are currently displayable on this page; the leading published row is Claude Fable 5.2 (xhigh) at 43.0%.

Honest limit: Rows are model plus harness plus, for open-weight models, an inference provider, so a score describes that setup. Runs per configuration are limited and the author publishes approximate 95% intervals. BenchLM shows WeirdML v3 as display-only; it does not enter overall or category rankings.

How WeirdML v3 is shown here

We mirror the official WeirdML v3 table from the author's prepared data file. WeirdML v3 gives coding agents 11 hand-made machine-learning and data-analysis tasks with unfamiliar data, unclear goals or little feedback, and scores how quickly and how well each agent improves as it spends tokens.

WeirdML v3 is display only on BenchLM. Each row is a model running inside a specific agent harness (Codex CLI, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Kimi Code or OpenCode) and sometimes a specific inference provider, so BenchLM keeps the table separate from model-only rankings. The archived WeirdML v2 and v1 tables sit below it on this page; each version uses different tasks and scores, so compare within one table.

Snapshot

29 configurations11 tasks15 task configurationsOfficial data fileDisplay only

The published WeirdML v3 snapshot places Claude Fable 5.2 (xhigh) first at 43.0%. The third row is 4.7 points behind. The broader top-10 range is 24.0 points, so the table still separates the published systems.

29 models have been evaluated on WeirdML v3. The benchmark falls in the Coding category. We keep external benchmark mirrors separate from the weighted global scoring system, so these results remain source-specific evidence. WeirdML v3 is currently displayed for reference but excluded from the scoring formula, so it does not directly affect overall rankings.

About WeirdML v3

Year

2026

Tasks

11 hand-made ML and data-analysis tasks (15 configurations)

Format

Agent harness runs up to 50M tokens, token-curve scoring

Difficulty

Open-ended ML engineering with unfamiliar data and little feedback

Each agent works on 11 tasks (15 task configurations, including hinted and hintless twins) inside its own harness, such as Codex CLI, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Kimi Code or OpenCode. The official score is 80% of the normalized area under the agent's average best-so-far curve on a log token axis between 500K and 50M tokens, plus 20% of its final value; tasks count equally and hinted and hintless twins share a task's weight. Effective scores include normalization and hint penalties. Only models with at least one valid run in every configuration are listed. Epoch AI, METR and NDRE funded the API costs.

Freshness and provenance

Version

WeirdML v3 2026

Refresh cadence

Quarterly

Staleness state

Current

Question availability

Public benchmark set

CurrentDisplay only

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.

Questions

How is WeirdML v3 different from v2?

v3 uses 11 new, more open-ended tasks run inside agent harnesses for up to 50M tokens, and scores the whole improvement curve rather than final accuracy. Scores are on a different scale, so v2 and v3 numbers should not be compared.

Which model leads WeirdML v3?

Claude Fable 5.2 at xhigh effort in Claude Code leads with an official score of 43.0, followed by GPT-6 Astra in Codex CLI (42.2) and GPT-6.1 Sol (38.3).

Where are the WeirdML v2 and v1 results?

Both archived tables are on this page below the v3 table. WeirdML v2 has 162 models on 17 tasks; WeirdML v1 has 44 models on 6 tasks. Each version uses its own tasks, so compare within one table.

Last updated: WeirdML v3 · mirrored from the public benchmark leaderboard

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