Anthropic ECI - September 2026 Fit (Opus 5.5 System Card): leaderboard

Anthropic's fork of the Epoch Capabilities Index (AECI): an IRT fit over public and internal benchmark results, refit on September 18, 2026 on 374 benchmarks and 732 models, with Claude Sonnet 3.5 pinned at 130 and GPT-5 at 150 (higher is better). Values from this fit are not comparable to earlier AECI releases. From Table 2.3.5.3.A of the Claude Opus 5.5 System Card (September 2026); Opus 5, Mythos 5.1 and Opus 5.5 at max effort, earlier models at their best configuration.

Metric: AECI Score. Source: www-cdn.anthropic.com. Saturation forecast: Around July 2028. 5 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Opus 5.5 (Max)169.36#4 (Claude Opus 5.5)
2Claude Opus 5 (Max)165.18#19 (Claude Opus 5)
3Claude Mythos 5164.49#21
4Claude Mythos Preview161.88#20

No result here: #5 GPT-6 Astra, #9 GPT-6.1 Sol, #10 Gemini 4 Argon.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=anthropic-eci-september-2026-fit-opus-5-5-system-card · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-08.