BenchBench-Protocol - Cell Culture and Cell-Based Assays: leaderboard

BenchBench-Protocol (Benchling, 2026) derives 149 wet-lab protocol-modification tasks from changes scientists made to published protocols, each graded against weighted rubric elements by a GPT-5.6 Terra judge. This board covers the 27 tasks from the cell culture and cell-based assays domain. Normalized rubric score in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Normalized rubric score (%; weighted rubric elements met by the response to real protocol-modification tasks in the cell culture and cell-based assays domain (27 tasks), graded by GPT-5.6 Terra; mean of repeated attempts per task). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around September 2027. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Opus 5 (Max)58.4#20 (Claude Opus 5)
2Kimi K3 (Max)46.7#53 (Kimi K3)
3GPT-5.6 Terra (Max)46.6#60 (GPT-5.6 Terra)
4GPT-5.6 Sol (Max)46.5#29 (GPT-5.6 Sol)
5GPT-5.6 Luna (Max)38.7#117 (GPT-5.6 Luna)
6GLM-5.2 (Max)36.8#137 (GLM-5.2)
7Inkling (Max)36.7#270 (Inkling)
8Grok 4.5 (High)36.5#78 (Grok 4.5)
9Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)32.8#72 (Gemini 3.6 Flash)

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

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