Laguna XS.2: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Laguna XS.2 from Poolside ranks #554 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (45.9), based on 2 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Poolside
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2026-04-28 (source: epoch)
Aggregate rank: #554 of 743 (score 45.9)

Across the 2 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, Laguna XS.2 is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

Laguna XS.2 benchmark results

Laguna XS.2 benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
WebDev Arena	1,302	#53 of 67	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13
ProofBench	0.0%	#46 of 46	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About Laguna XS.2

Laguna XS.2 is a frontier model from Poolside. It was released on 2026-04-28, according to Epoch AI. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 2 benchmark results for it across 2 areas, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Laguna XS.2 stands

On our aggregate score, Laguna XS.2 is #554 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 45.9; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 4.1 points below the typical model. That beats 25% of the ranked field. Among the 2 ranked Poolside models it is #1. The next one down is Laguna M.1 at 44.4.

Laguna XS.2, benchmark by benchmark

Laguna XS.2 lands below the middle on WebDev Arena: 1,302, #53 of 67, with 78% of the field scoring higher. Claude Opus 5.5 (max) leads at 1,820; the closest result above is DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking; Novita) at 1,325. It covers building web apps, crowd-voted (Elo). The board median is 1,433, so Laguna XS.2 is 131 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

ProofBench is a weak spot. Laguna XS.2 scores 0.0%, #46 of 46, behind 98% of the models measured. The leader, Claude Fable 5.1 (max), reaches 100.0%. It covers writing mathematical proofs. The board median is 21.0%, so Laguna XS.2 is 21.0 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Strengths and weaknesses

Laguna XS.2 has too few results on boards with ten or more models to say where it is strong or weak. Treat any single score as a data point, not a verdict.

Release history

The Poolside model released before it was Laguna M.1 on 2026-04-28, which scores 44.4.

Reading these numbers

The 2 scores on this page come from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (2). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 2 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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