Benchmark

GSO

Measures: Software performance optimisation: in real repositories an agent must make a program faster; OPT@1 is the share of tasks where one attempt reaches at least 95% of the speedup a human expert achieved.

Maintainer
GSO team
Introduced
2025
Status
Active
Saturation
Headroom
Typical provenance
Independent
In scoring set
Yes

PaperOfficial leaderboard

Every result we hold, whoever ran it. Only independent and third-party rows count towards a score.

Leaderboard
ModelOPT@1ProvenanceSourceEvaluated
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · Unknown effort
47.1%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic · High effort
44.1%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.744.1%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · High effort
41.2%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.5
OpenAI · Xhigh effort
40.2%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · Unknown effort
37.3%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · Unknown effort
33.3%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.633.3%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.4
OpenAI · Xhigh effort
31.4%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.2
OpenAI · High effort
27.4%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.526.5%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic · Unknown effort
26.5%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.4
OpenAI · High effort
25.5%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Gemini 3.1 Pro22.6%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Gemini 3 Pro18.6%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic · Unknown effort
14.7%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Claude Sonnet 4.514.7%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.1
OpenAI · Unknown effort
13.7%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.1
OpenAI · High effort
13.7%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Gemini 3 Flash9.8%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
o3
OpenAI · High effort
8.8%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 46.9%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4
Anthropic · Unknown effort
6.9%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
GPT-5
OpenAI · High effort
6.9%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Claude Sonnet 44.9%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic · Unknown effort
4.9%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct4.9%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Claude 3.5 Sonnet4.6%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Gemini 2.5 Pro3.9%Third partyhttps://gso-bench.github.io/index.html via Epoch AI—
Gemini 2.5 Pro3.9%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Claude 3.7 Sonnet3.8%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic · Unknown effort
3.8%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
o4-mini
OpenAI · High effort
3.6%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
GLM-4.5-Air2.9%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
o3-mini
OpenAI · Low effort
1.3%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
o3-mini
OpenAI · High effort
1.3%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
GPT-4o0.0%Third partyGSO Leaderboard via Epoch AI—
  • Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking', epoch.ai/benchmarks, CC BY 4.0.

Sources