ForecastBench-Sim Pandemic - Unconditional: leaderboard

Evaluates simulated pandemic forecasting over 30 scenarios at horizons 40 and 60. This series reports unconditional Brier loss, where lower is better, for the July 9, 2026 result snapshot. The conditional task supplies a vaccine intervention. Published means use scored responses (55–60 per model), retaining dated model identifiers. Source: the authors’ public ForecastBench-Sim result JSON.

Metric: Brier Score (0-1; scored responses). Source: raw.githubusercontent.com. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 16 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4.10.05#258
2Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct0.05#469
3Claude Haiku 4.5 (20251001)0.05#264
4Llama 3.1 70B Instruct0.05#567
5DeepSeek V30.05#329
6GPT-50.05#105
7GPT-5.1 (2025-11-13)0.06#107
8O3 Mini (2025-01-31)0.06#249
9O4 Mini (2025-04-16)0.07#183
10Gemini 2.5 Pro0.09#159
11GPT-5 Mini (2025-08-07)0.09#175
12GPT-5 Nano0.1#439
13O3 (2025-04-16)0.1#125
14Claude Sonnet 4.50.12#148
15Grok 40.19#189

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=forecastbench-sim-pandemic-unconditional · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.