SimpleQA Verified leaderboard: which LLMs score highest
SimpleQA Verified (short factual questions) currently has scores for 66 models. The top score is 75.6% by GPT-6 Astra (max); the median model scores 41.0% and the lowest scores 6.0%.
| # | Model | Organisation | SimpleQA Verified score | Cheapest input $/M | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-6 Astra (max) | OpenAI | 75.6% | $10.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 2 | GPT-6.1 Sol (max) | OpenAI | 73.9% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 5.5 (max) | Anthropic | 72.2% | $4.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 4 | Claude Fable 5.1 (max) | Anthropic | 70.8% | $10.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 5 | Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) | Google DeepMind | 69.7% | $0.750 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 6 | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) | OpenAI | 69.7% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 7 | Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) | Google DeepMind | 69.2% | $0.750 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 8 | GPT-5.5 (xhigh) | OpenAI | 63.0% | $5.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 9 | GPT-6 Sol (max) | OpenAI | 60.7% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 10 | Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) | Meta AI | 60.3% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 11 | Claude Opus 5 (max) | Anthropic | 59.9% | $5.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 12 | Grok 4.7 (xhigh) | xAI | 56.0% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 13 | Qwen3.7 Max | Alibaba | 55.8% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 14 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) | DeepSeek | 52.9% | $0.660 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 15 | Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) | Alibaba | 52.0% | — | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 16 | Kimi K3 (max) | Moonshot | 50.6% | $1.29 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 17 | GPT-5 (high) | OpenAI | 50.1% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 18 | o3 (high) | OpenAI | 49.4% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 19 | Grok 4.6 (xhigh) | xAI | 48.9% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 20 | Qwen3-Max-Instruct | Alibaba | 48.7% | — | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 21 | Grok 4.5 (high) | xAI | 48.3% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 22 | GPT-5.1 (high) | OpenAI | 48.0% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 23 | Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (xhigh) | Alibaba | 47.3% | $1.65 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 24 | Claude Opus 4.6 (max) | Anthropic | 47.0% | $5.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 25 | DeepSeek v4 Pro (max) | DeepSeek | 47.0% | $0.435 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 26 | Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) | Anthropic | 46.5% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 27 | GPT-5.4 Pro (xhigh) | OpenAI | 46.3% | $30.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 28 | Qwen3.8 Max (xhigh) | Alibaba | 45.8% | $1.65 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 29 | GPT-5.4 (xhigh) | OpenAI | 45.1% | $2.50 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 30 | Qwen 3.6 Plus (2026-04-02) | Alibaba | 44.1% | — | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 31 | GPT-5.6 Terra (max) | OpenAI | 43.2% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 32 | GPT-6 Luna (max) | OpenAI | 41.4% | $0.100 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 33 | o1 (high) | OpenAI | 41.1% | $15.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 34 | GLM-5.3 (max) | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | 41.0% | $0.070 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 35 | GPT-5.6 Luna (max) | OpenAI | 41.0% | $0.200 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 36 | Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 | Alibaba | 40.4% | $0.230 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 37 | Inkling (xhigh) | Thinking Machines | 40.3% | $0.950 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 38 | GPT-5.2 (xhigh) | OpenAI | 37.1% | $1.75 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 39 | Kimi K2.7 Code | Moonshot | 36.5% | $0.671 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 40 | Kimi K2.6 | Moonshot | 34.9% | $0.650 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 41 | Kimi K2.5 | Moonshot | 34.3% | $0.450 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 42 | GLM-5.1 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | 34.0% | $1.05 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 43 | Claude Sonnet 5 (max) | Anthropic | 33.7% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 44 | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (max) | DeepSeek | 33.6% | $0.015 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 45 | grok-4.3 (high) | xAI | 33.2% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 46 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max) | Anthropic | 32.8% | $3.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 47 | GLM-4.7 | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | 32.2% | $0.400 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 48 | GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | 31.1% | $2.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 49 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 (59k thinking) | Anthropic | 30.7% | $3.00 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
| 50 | grok-4.20-0309-reasoning | xAI | 30.2% | $1.25 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-05 |
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Among the ten highest scorers, the cheapest listed API price belongs to Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) at $0.750 per million input tokens (score 69.7%).
What SimpleQA Verified measures
SimpleQA Verified is a curated version of SimpleQA: short fact-seeking questions that each have one verifiable answer. It works as a rough check on how often a model states things that are not true.
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.