AidanBench: leaderboard

Open-ended idea generation: how many coherent, mutually novel answers a model can keep producing for the same question before repeating itself or losing coherence.

Metric: Novel Answers. Source: aidanbench.com. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 56 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1O16054#183
2O3 Mini (High)4921#272 (O3 Mini)
3O3 Mini (Medium)3368#272 (O3 Mini)
4Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview 03-25)3211#123
5GPT-4.5 (Preview)3003#244
6Claude 3.5 Sonnet2671#350
7O3 Mini (Low)2300#272 (O3 Mini)
8Grok 3 Mini Beta2284#296
9Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking)2170#249 (Claude 3.7 Sonnet)
10Gemma 3 27B (IT)2028#523
11Claude 3.7 Sonnet1906#249
12O1 Preview1875#193
13Gemini 2.0 Flash (Preview)1872#370
14Grok 31795#304
15Gemma 3 12B (IT)1785#664

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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