FactArena - Justification Soundness: leaderboard

FactArena (Lin et al., 2026) rating of fact-checking justifications for soundness: logically valid, well-structured reasoning supported by the 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)1292.55#212
2DeepSeek R11131.83#467
3O4 Mini (2025-04-16)1097.33#362
4Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview 06-05)1081.98#207
5GPT-4.5 (Preview)1053.24#499
6GPT-4.11044.03#492
7Grok 31026.05#600
8Grok 3 Mini Beta958.97#615
9Claude Opus 4 (20250514)958.32#276
10Gemini 2.5 Flash956.76#452
11DeepSeek V3938.83#705
12Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)919.29#386
13Llama 4 Maverick Instruct916.31#1125
14GPT-4o891.96#741
15Qwen 3 235B A22B891.82#622

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

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