BAGEL - Xeno-canto: leaderboard

Metric: Accuracy (%, times 100) on the 4,242 Xeno-canto questions (text-only bioacoustic knowledge of species vocalizations) of BAGEL, closed-book four-option single-answer multiple choice (the source passage is withheld), one unified prompt, greedy decoding with seed 0, a single run per model; questions written by GPT-4o-mini from Wikipedia species articles, GloBI interaction records, bioRxiv preprints and Xeno-canto recordings, options shuffled; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around September 2028. 13 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1GPT-5.459.26
2Claude Opus 4.656.01
3Llama 3.1 8B Instruct50.45
4Gemma 3 27B (IT)44.81
5Qwen 3 14B (Non-reasoning)41.25
6Qwen 3 8B (Non-reasoning)39.32
7Phi-438.31
8Qwen 3 32B (Non-reasoning)37.51
9Qwen 3 4B (Non-reasoning)35.81
10Mistral 7B Instruct (v0.3)29.49
11gemma-7B27.91
12Qwen 3 0.6B (Non-reasoning)24.14

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=bagel-xeno-canto · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-07.