# Agents-A1 vs dots3-note Preview

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Agents-A1 and dots3-note Preview across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/agents-a1-vs-dots3-note-preview
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick dots3-note Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Agents-A1 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- dots3-note Preview leads overall 62.64 to 52.33.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 35.3 for Agents-A1 and 72.9 for dots3-note Preview.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is BrowseComp in Agentic, with scores of 75.5% and 83.3%.
- dots3-note Preview also has the larger context window at 512K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Agents-A1 | dots3-note Preview |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | InternScience | Dots Studio |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 512K |
| Overall Score | 52.33 | 62.64 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 31 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Agents-A1 public-lane score: 43.9 (Estimated · #45/117)
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 56.4 (Estimated · #28/117)

| Benchmark | Agents-A1 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BrowseComp | 75.5% | 83.3% | dots3-note Preview |
| HLE w/ tools | 47.6% | 52.6% | dots3-note Preview |
| VITA-Bench | 38.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 73.4% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 75.1% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 55.6% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 52.8% | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | Coming soon | 30.8% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Agents-A1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Agents-A1 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Codeforces | Coming soon | 3056.0 | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 91.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 75.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 75.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 49.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Agents-A1 public-lane score: 35.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 72.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Agents-A1 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Agents-A1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 67.2 (Unranked · 10 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Agents-A1 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79.1% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 19.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 83.1% | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | Coming soon | 60.7% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 50.0% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 79.9% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 86.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Agents-A1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Agents-A1 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 47.6% | 52.6% | dots3-note Preview |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Agents-A1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 85.2 (#37/124)

| Benchmark | Agents-A1 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 94.8% | 93.9% | Agents-A1 |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Agents-A1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Agents-A1 | dots3-note Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Agents-A1 or dots3-note Preview?

dots3-note Preview is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Agents-A1 and dots3-note Preview?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 35.3 for Agents-A1 and 72.9 for dots3-note Preview.

### How many benchmarks does Agents-A1 cover on BenchLM?

Agents-A1 currently has 6 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does dots3-note Preview cover on BenchLM?

dots3-note Preview currently has 31 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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