Benchmark

APEX-Agents

Measures: An agent works inside simulated professional 'worlds' (files plus workplace apps exposed as tools) to finish long-horizon, cross-application tasks written by investment-banking analysts, management consultants and corporate lawyers; an LLM judge grades each output against expert-written binary rubric criteria, and Pass@1 is the share of tasks meeting every criterion on one attempt.

Maintainer
Mercor
Introduced
2026
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
ModelPass@1 (all rubric criteria met)Mean score (share of rubric criteria passed)ProvenanceSourceEvaluated
gpt-oss-120b4.4%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B24.9%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google DeepMind · Unknown effort
27.5%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Inkling33.8%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Gemini 3.1 Pro35.3%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Muse Spark 1.236.4%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Kimi K2.7 Code37.6%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
MiniMax-M337.7%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GLM-5.140.9%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · High effort
43.0%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GPT-6 Luna
OpenAI · Max effort
44.3%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic · Medium effort
44.6%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · Max effort
46.3%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google DeepMind · Unknown effort
46.9%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek · Unknown effort
47.3%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · Max effort
48.9%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic · Max effort
49.2%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · Unknown effort
50.6%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI · Promax effort
51.4%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.4
OpenAI · Unknown effort
52.4%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GLM-5.3-Flash
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · Unknown effort
52.8%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GPT-6 Sol
OpenAI · Max effort
54.3%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · Unknown effort
54.5%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.5
OpenAI · Unknown effort
55.1%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Grok 4.5
SpaceXAI (xAI) · Unknown effort
56.2%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GLM-5.3
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · Unknown effort
56.6%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Muse Spark 1.3
Meta · Unknown effort
57.8%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI · Max effort
58.2%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic · High effort
59.7%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Fable 563.6%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google DeepMind · Unknown effort
64.3%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI · Unknown effort
64.7%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Grok 4.6
SpaceXAI (xAI) · Unknown effort
65.3%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · Max effort
65.8%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google DeepMind · Unknown effort
67.8%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Fable 5.1
Anthropic · Unknown effort
68.6%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic · Max effort
73.5%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic · Max effort
75.5%—Source not statedEpoch AI via Epoch AI—
  • Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking', epoch.ai/benchmarks, CC BY 4.0.

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