# LifeVal: everyday life tasks (LifeVal)

> OpenAI's benchmark of practical everyday tasks people want a personal assistant to handle, such as finding childcare, accessing government services, budgeting, shopping and caregiving.

Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/benchmarks/lifeval

- Category: [Agentic](/agentic)
- Last updated: October 29, 2026

## About LifeVal

- Year: 2026
- Tasks: 169 everyday life tasks (caregiving, health, education, household administration, personal finance, shopping, government services)
- Format: Average reward, unweighted across tasks
- Difficulty: Agentic personal-assistant work
- Paper: [LifeVal](https://openai.com/index/lifeval/)

OpenAI built LifeVal from the American Time Use Survey, the Multinational Time Use Study and its own survey of 3,995 people, and reports an unweighted average reward across 169 tasks that use browser use, computer use and connectors. OpenAI ran every published result and has not released the task set, so BenchLM shows the scores display-only and keeps them out of weighted rankings. OpenAI's November 2, 2026 chart names the GPT-5.6 model only as "GPT-5.6"; BenchLM stores it on GPT-5.6 Sol, the flagship tier, as with other unlabelled GPT-5.6 rows. GPT-6 Astra is the launch-blog xhigh setting.

LifeVal is currently displayed on BenchLM for reference, but it is excluded from the weighted scoring formula.

## Leaderboard (5 models)

| Rank | Model | Creator | Score |
|------|-------|---------|-------|
| 1 | [GPT-6 Astra](/models/gpt-6-astra) | OpenAI | 80.6% |
| 2 | [GPT-5.6 Sol](/models/gpt-5-6-sol) | OpenAI | 80.0% |
| 3 | [GPT-5.5](/models/gpt-5-5) | OpenAI | 77.4% |
| 4 | [GPT-5.4](/models/gpt-5-4) | OpenAI | 73.0% |
| 5 | [GPT-5.2](/models/gpt-5-2) | OpenAI | 49.3% |

## FAQ

### What does LifeVal measure?

OpenAI's benchmark of practical everyday tasks people want a personal assistant to handle, such as finding childcare, accessing government services, budgeting, shopping and caregiving.

### Which model scores highest on LifeVal?

GPT-6 Astra by OpenAI currently leads with a score of 80.6% on LifeVal.

### How many models are evaluated on LifeVal?

5 AI models have published results on LifeVal in the BenchLM catalog.

### Does LifeVal affect BenchLM's overall score?

Not directly. LifeVal is still displayed on BenchLM for reference, but it is excluded from the weighted scoring formula.

## Compare Top Models on LifeVal

- [GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-5.6 Sol](/compare/gpt-5-6-sol-vs-gpt-6-astra)
- [GPT-5.6 Sol vs GPT-5.5](/compare/gpt-5-5-vs-gpt-5-6-sol)
- [GPT-5.5 vs GPT-5.4](/compare/gpt-5-4-vs-gpt-5-5)
- [GPT-5.4 vs GPT-5.2](/compare/gpt-5-2-vs-gpt-5-4)