CritPt leaderboard: which LLMs score highest
CritPt (unpublished research-level physics problems) currently has scores for 111 models. The top score is 32.3% by GPT-5.6 Sol (max); the median model scores 2.9% and the lowest scores 0.0%.
| # | Model | Organisation | CritPt score | Cheapest input $/M | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) | OpenAI | 32.3% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5.5 (max) | Anthropic | 31.7% | $4.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 3 | GPT-6 Astra (max) | OpenAI | 31.7% | $10.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 4 | GPT-6.1 Sol (max) | OpenAI | 31.7% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) | Anthropic | 31.4% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 6 | GPT-6 Sol (max) | OpenAI | 30.9% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 7 | GPT-5.5 Pro (xhigh) | OpenAI | 30.6% | $30.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 8 | GPT-5.4 Pro (xhigh) | OpenAI | 30.0% | $30.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 9 | GPT-5.6 Terra (max) | OpenAI | 30.0% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 10 | Claude Fable 5.1 (max) | Anthropic | 29.7% | $10.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 11 | Claude Opus 5 (max) | Anthropic | 29.1% | $5.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 12 | Claude Fable 5 (max) | Anthropic | 28.6% | $10.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 13 | GPT-5.5 (xhigh) | OpenAI | 27.1% | $5.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 14 | Gemini 3 Deep Think | Google DeepMind | 25.7% | — | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 15 | Muse Spark 1.3 (max) | Meta AI | 24.9% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 16 | GPT-5.4 (xhigh) | OpenAI | 23.4% | $2.50 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 17 | Kimi K3 (max) | Moonshot | 23.4% | $1.29 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 18 | GPT-5.6 Luna (max) | OpenAI | 20.6% | $0.200 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 19 | Grok 4.6 (xhigh) | xAI | 19.7% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 20 | GPT-6 Luna (max) | OpenAI | 19.4% | $0.100 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 21 | GLM-5.3 (max) | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | 19.1% | $0.070 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 22 | Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) | Google DeepMind | 18.3% | $0.750 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 23 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) | DeepSeek | 18.0% | $0.660 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 24 | Grok 4.7 (xhigh) | xAI | 17.7% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 25 | Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) | Meta AI | 17.7% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 26 | Claude Sonnet 5 (max) | Anthropic | 16.9% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 27 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) | DeepSeek | 16.6% | $0.015 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 28 | Grok 4.5 (high) | xAI | 15.4% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 29 | deepseek-v4.1-flash-max | DeepSeek | 14.3% | — | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 30 | Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) | Google DeepMind | 14.3% | $0.750 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 31 | Qwen3.7 Max | Alibaba | 13.4% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 32 | DeepSeek v4 Pro (max) | DeepSeek | 12.9% | $0.435 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 33 | GPT-5 (high) | OpenAI | 12.6% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 34 | Claude Opus 4.7 (max) | Anthropic | 12.0% | $5.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 35 | Muse Spark | Meta AI | 11.3% | — | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 36 | GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh) | OpenAI | 10.0% | $0.750 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 37 | Kimi K2.7 Code | Moonshot | 10.0% | $0.671 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 38 | GPT-5.4 nano (xhigh) | OpenAI | 9.3% | $0.200 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 39 | grok-build-0.1 | xAI | 9.1% | $1.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 40 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Alibaba | 9.1% | $0.282 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 41 | grok-4.3 (high) | xAI | 8.0% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 42 | Kimi K2.6 | Moonshot | 8.0% | $0.650 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 43 | DeepSeek v4 Flash (max) | DeepSeek | 7.1% | $0.090 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 44 | Gemini 3 Pro Preview | Google DeepMind | 6.9% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 45 | Inkling (xhigh) | Thinking Machines | 5.4% | $0.950 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 46 | Qwen3.8-27B (XHigh) | Alibaba | 5.4% | $0.400 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 47 | GLM-5.1 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | 4.6% | $1.05 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 48 | mimo-v2.5-pro | Xiaomi Corp | 4.0% | $0.435 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 49 | mimo-v2.5 | Xiaomi Corp | 3.7% | $0.140 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 50 | MiniMax-M3 | MiniMax | 3.7% | $0.230 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
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Among the ten highest scorers, the cheapest listed API price belongs to GPT-5.6 Sol (max) at $2.00 per million input tokens (score 32.3%).
What CritPt measures
CritPt measures unpublished research-level physics problems.
How to read these scores
Scores are percentages (higher is better): the share of questions or tasks the model completed correctly. Where a model is listed at several reasoning efforts, only its highest-effort row is shown. See the methodology for how rows are chosen.
Where the data comes from
Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (CC BY 4.0). Scores were last captured 2026-10-05; the Captured column gives each row's date.