SciCode leaderboard: which LLMs score highest
SciCode (scientific research code) currently has scores for 100 models. The top score is 66.9% by Claude Opus 5.5 (max); the median model scores 43.2% and the lowest scores 10.8%.
| # | Model | Organisation | SciCode score | Cheapest input $/M | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5.5 (max) | Anthropic | 66.9% | $4.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 2 | Claude Fable 5.1 (max) | Anthropic | 63.1% | $10.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5 (max) | Anthropic | 61.0% | $10.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 4 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) | Anthropic | 61.0% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 5 | Kimi K3 (max) | Moonshot | 59.5% | $1.29 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 6 | GLM-5.3 (max) | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | 59.0% | $0.070 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 7 | Muse Spark 1.3 (max) | Meta AI | 58.8% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 8 | GPT-6 Sol (max) | OpenAI | 57.6% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 9 | Grok 4.7 (xhigh) | xAI | 57.4% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 10 | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) | OpenAI | 57.1% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 11 | Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) | Google DeepMind | 56.8% | $0.750 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 12 | Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) | Google DeepMind | 56.6% | $0.750 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 13 | GPT-5.4 (xhigh) | OpenAI | 56.6% | $2.50 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 14 | GPT-6 Astra (max) | OpenAI | 56.5% | $10.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 15 | Claude Opus 5 (max) | Anthropic | 56.4% | $5.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 16 | Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) | Meta AI | 56.4% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 17 | GPT-5.5 (xhigh) | OpenAI | 56.1% | $5.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 18 | GPT-5.6 Terra (max) | OpenAI | 55.0% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 19 | GPT-6 Luna (max) | OpenAI | 54.6% | $0.100 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 20 | Claude Opus 4.7 (max) | Anthropic | 54.5% | $5.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 21 | GPT-6.1 Sol (max) | OpenAI | 54.2% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 22 | Grok 4.5 (high) | xAI | 54.1% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 23 | Claude Sonnet 5 (max) | Anthropic | 53.6% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 24 | GPT-5.6 Luna (max) | OpenAI | 53.6% | $0.200 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 25 | Kimi K2.6 | Moonshot | 53.5% | $0.650 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 26 | deepseek-v4.1-flash-max | DeepSeek | 51.9% | — | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 27 | Grok 4.6 (xhigh) | xAI | 51.6% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 28 | Muse Spark | Meta AI | 51.5% | — | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 29 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) | DeepSeek | 51.0% | $0.660 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 30 | grok-build-0.1 | xAI | 50.2% | $1.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 31 | mimo-v2.5-pro | Xiaomi Corp | 50.2% | $0.435 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 32 | DeepSeek v4 Pro (max) | DeepSeek | 50.0% | $0.435 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 33 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) | DeepSeek | 49.9% | $0.015 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 34 | GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh) | OpenAI | 49.9% | $0.750 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 35 | Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot | 49.0% | $0.450 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 36 | Qwen3.7 Max | Alibaba | 48.8% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 37 | GPT-5.5 Instant | OpenAI | 48.6% | — | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 38 | Kimi K2.7 Code | Moonshot | 47.5% | $0.671 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 39 | grok-4.3 (high) | xAI | 47.3% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 40 | MiniMax-M3 | MiniMax | 47.1% | $0.230 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 41 | Inkling (xhigh) | Thinking Machines | 47.0% | $0.950 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 42 | MiniMax-M2.7 | MiniMax | 47.0% | $0.210 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 43 | GPT-5.4 nano (xhigh) | OpenAI | 46.9% | $0.200 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 44 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max) | Anthropic | 46.8% | $3.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 45 | Qwen3.8-27B (XHigh) | Alibaba | 46.6% | $0.400 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 46 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Alibaba | 45.5% | $0.282 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 47 | GLM-4.7 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | 45.1% | $0.400 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 48 | DeepSeek v4 Flash (max) | DeepSeek | 44.9% | $0.090 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 49 | GLM-5.1 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | 43.8% | $1.05 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 50 | Gemma 4 31B IT | Google DeepMind | 43.4% | $0.100 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
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Among the ten highest scorers, the cheapest listed API price belongs to GLM-5.3 (max) at $0.070 per million input tokens (score 59.0%).
What SciCode measures
SciCode measures scientific research code.
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.