FactArena - Evidence Retrieval: leaderboard

FactArena (Lin et al., 2026) stage rating for summarizing claim evidence from a Google search result and the model's own sub-claims, compared against Wikipedia reference evidence. Ratings come from anonymous pairwise comparisons judged by a four-model panel, fitted on the Elo scale with a Bradley-Terry model; higher is better.

Metric: Elo rating from pairwise judged comparisons. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 16 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1O3 (2025-04-16)1351.95#212
2DeepSeek R11129.69#467
3O4 Mini (2025-04-16)1129.67#362
4Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview 06-05)1066.15#207
5GPT-4.5 (Preview)1041.89#499
6GPT-4.11033.21#492
7Grok 31007.77#600
8Grok 3 Mini Beta960.1#615
9Gemini 2.5 Flash955.35#452
10Claude Opus 4 (20250514)949.44#276
11DeepSeek V3924.27#705
12Llama 4 Maverick Instruct916.68#1125
13Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)908.29#386
14Qwen 3 235B A22B892.18#622
15GPT-4o888.55#741

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

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