CESBench - Scenario: leaderboard

The 63 scenario items of CESBench (Zhou et al., 2026): open-ended diagnosis of a concrete cryptographic-engineering situation with platform, measurement and trace details. Scored in percent as the mean of three to five expert rubric dimensions judged by Qwen3.5-397B; higher is better.

Metric: Scenario score (%; the 63 open-ended engineering diagnosis items, mean of 3 to 5 expert rubric dimensions judged 0, 0.5 or 1; 380 expert-written items on cryptographic engineering security for IoT devices; zero-shot, temperature 0, no tools, provider default reasoning mode; judgment and scenario answers scored by a Qwen3.5-397B judge from outside the evaluated set). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.6 Luna88.4#117
2GLM-5.284.2#137
3Kimi K2.682.2#173
4Gemini 3.7 Flash81.9#32
5DeepSeek V4 Pro81.4#181
6MiniMax-M2.571.9#590
7DeepSeek V367.5#705
8GLM-4 32B (0414)59.1#1407
9Llama 4 Maverick57.1#1105
10Ling-flash-2.055.9#1352
11Hunyuan A13B-Instruct47.2#2021

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=cesbench-scenario · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.