LiveBench Reasoning leaderboard: which LLMs score highest
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench release 2026_06_25) currently has scores for 17 models. The top score is 89.7% by claude-opus-4-8-xhigh-effort; the median model scores 81.1% and the lowest scores 70.3%.
| # | Model | Organisation | LiveBench Reasoning score | Cheapest input $/M | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claude-opus-4-8-xhigh-effort | Anthropic | 89.7% | $5.00 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 2 | GPT-5.5 (xhigh) | OpenAI | 89.7% | $5.00 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 3 | GPT-5.4 (xhigh) | OpenAI | 88.1% | $2.50 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 4 | gemini-3.1-pro-preview-high | 84.0% | $2.00 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 | |
| 5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Alibaba | 83.3% | $1.25 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 6 | gpt-5.2-2025-12-11-high | OpenAI | 83.2% | $1.75 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 7 | Kimi K2.7 Code | Moonshot | 82.8% | $0.671 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 8 | gemini-3.5-flash-high | 82.0% | $1.50 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 | |
| 9 | GPT-5.4 nano (xhigh) | OpenAI | 81.1% | $0.200 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 10 | claude-opus-4-5-20251101-thinking-64k-high-effort | Anthropic | 80.1% | $5.00 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 11 | kimi-k2.6-thinking | Moonshot AI | 79.4% | $0.650 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 12 | GPT-5.2 Codex | OpenAI | 77.7% | $1.75 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 13 | grok-build-0.1 | xAI | 76.4% | $1.00 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 14 | qwen3.6-plus | Alibaba | 75.8% | $0.325 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 15 | MiniMax-M3 | MiniMax | 74.5% | $0.230 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 16 | GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh) | OpenAI | 71.3% | $0.750 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
| 17 | Qwen3.6 27B | Alibaba | 70.3% | $0.150 | LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV | 2026-10-05 |
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Among the ten highest scorers, the cheapest listed API price belongs to GPT-5.4 nano (xhigh) at $0.200 per million input tokens (score 81.1%).
What LiveBench Reasoning measures
LiveBench refreshes its questions regularly from recent material to limit training-data contamination, and scores answers automatically against ground truth. This is its reasoning category.
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
LiveBench 2026_06_25 official CSV. Scores were last captured 2026-10-05; the Captured column gives each row's date.