Benchmark

Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)

Measures: 2,500 expert-written, closed-ended questions across 100+ subjects (about 14% need an image); a model gives one final answer plus a confidence, graded for exact-match accuracy by an LLM judge, with calibration error reported alongside.

Maintainer
Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
Introduced
2025
Status
Active
Saturation
Headroom
Typical provenance
Mixed
In scoring set
Yes

PaperOfficial leaderboard

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

Leaderboard
ModelAccuracyCalibration errorProvenanceSourceEvaluated
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash63.9%—Self-reportedDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
GLM-5.362.5%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Kimi K356.0%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Hy4 preview55.4%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
GLM-5.3-Flash55.3%—Self-reportedGLM-5.3-Flash model card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
GLM-5.254.7%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Kimi K2.654.0%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Hy353.2%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
GLM-5.152.3%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
GLM-550.4%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Kimi K2.550.2%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Qwen3.5-27B48.5%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B48.3%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Step 3.7 Flash48.1%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
MiMo-V2.5-Pro48.0%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B47.5%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Inkling46.0%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI · Thinking effort
44.9%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B43.6%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
GLM-4.742.8%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B37.4%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next35.9%—Self-reportedQwen3.8-Flash-Next model card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Inkling Small31.6%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Qwen3.8-27B30.8%—Self-reportedQwen3.8-27B model card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Hy3 preview30.0%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Solar Open 2 (250B)28.8%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
A.X K227.8%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Qwen3.6-27B24.0%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Step 3.5 Flash23.1%—Self-reportedStep 3.5 Flash Paper via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B22.8%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Ling-3.0-flash22.7%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
MiniMax-M2.122.2%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
MiMo-V2-Flash22.1%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Muse Glimmer 30B22.0%—Self-reportedMuse Glimmer-30B model card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Intern-S2-Preview21.9%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B21.4%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
MiniMax-M2.519.4%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
gpt-oss-120b19.0%—Self-reportedGPT-OSS Model Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
gpt-oss-20b17.3%—Self-reportedGPT-OSS Model Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
GLM-4.7-Flash14.4%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
K-EXAONE-236B-A23B13.6%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
MiniMax-M212.5%—Self-reportedModel Card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B11.7%—Self-reportedNVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 model card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
A.X K18.6%—Self-reportedA.X K1 model card via Hugging Face Community Evals—
GLM-4.58.3%—Self-reportedEvalEval via Hugging Face Community Evals—
GLM-4.5-Air8.1%—Self-reportedEvalEval via Hugging Face Community Evals—
  • Reported on Hugging Face Community Evals; each result names its author and links its source.

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