# ResearchRubrics: A Benchmark of Prompts and Rubrics for Evaluating Deep Research Agents (ResearchRubrics)

> A deep-research agent benchmark that pairs realistic, domain-diverse prompts with more than 2,500 expert-written rubrics scoring factual grounding, reasoning soundness and clarity of long-form, evidence-backed answers.

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

- Category: [Agentic](/agentic)
- Last updated: November 11, 2026

## About ResearchRubrics

- Year: 2025
- Tasks: Deep-research prompts with 2,500+ expert-written rubrics
- Format: Rubric compliance (%)
- Difficulty: Open-ended deep research and long-form synthesis
- Paper: [ResearchRubrics: A Benchmark of Prompts and Rubrics For Evaluating Deep Research Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07685)

Scale AI introduced ResearchRubrics in November 2025, built with more than 2,800 hours of human work, and released the prompts, rubrics and evaluation code. Scores are rubric compliance percentages; in the paper, Gemini Deep Research and OpenAI Deep Research stayed under 68%. Meituan reports LongCat-2.5 at 81.0 in its November 2026 model card, next to in-house runs of GPT-5.6 Sol (74.2), Claude Opus 5 (72.9), GLM-5.3 (79.9), Kimi K3 (78.8) and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (80.9). BenchLM stores the LongCat-2.5 row; the other figures are Meituan runs listed for context.

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

## Leaderboard (1 models)

The one result on this page was reported by the lab that built the model.

| Rank | Model | Creator | Score | Who ran it |
|------|-------|---------|-------|-----------|
| 1 | [LongCat-2.5](/models/longcat-2-5) | Meituan | 81.0% | Reported by Meituan |

## FAQ

### What does ResearchRubrics measure?

A deep-research agent benchmark that pairs realistic, domain-diverse prompts with more than 2,500 expert-written rubrics scoring factual grounding, reasoning soundness and clarity of long-form, evidence-backed answers.

### Which model scores highest on ResearchRubrics?

LongCat-2.5 by Meituan currently leads with a score of 81.0% on ResearchRubrics.

### How many models are evaluated on ResearchRubrics?

1 AI models have published results on ResearchRubrics in the BenchLM catalog.

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

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