AgentProcessBench - HotPotQA Step Accuracy: leaderboard

Metric: StepAcc (%): share of assistant steps, pooled over trajectories, whose correct (+1), neutral (0) or incorrect (-1) label from the judge matches the expert annotation, on the 250 HotPotQA trajectories (multi-hop question answering with a Wikipedia retriever) of AgentProcessBench's 1,000 human-annotated tool-use trajectories (250 per source benchmark, rollouts of five agent models); higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 20 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) (Non-reasoning)76.7#78 (Gemini 3 Flash (Preview))
2DeepSeek V3.2 (Non-reasoning)74.4#198 (DeepSeek V3.2)
3GPT-5.2 (Medium)72.3#105 (GPT-5.2)
4GPT-5.2 (Non-reasoning)72.1#105 (GPT-5.2)
5Kimi K2.5 (Non-reasoning)71.7#139 (Kimi K2.5)
6GPT-5.2 Instant71.4#205
7Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)70.6#139 (Kimi K2.5)
8DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)70.4#198 (DeepSeek V3.2)
9Qwen 3 30B A3B 2507 (Thinking)70#366 (Qwen 3 30B A3B 2507)
10Qwen 3 4B 2507 (Thinking)66.9#525 (Qwen 3 4B 2507)
11Qwen 3 4B 2507 Instruct66.6#745
12Qwen 3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct65.8#464
13Qwen 3 8B (Non-reasoning)60.4#667 (Qwen 3 8B)
14Qwen 3 4B (Reasoning)60.1#823 (Qwen 3 4B)
15Qwen 3 8B (Thinking)59.7#667 (Qwen 3 8B)

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #8 Claude Fable 5.1.

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