FrontierML ($50 Wallet): leaderboard

Induction Labs evaluates coding agents on 21 end-to-end machine learning tasks spanning language, vision, audio and games. Each task allows 12 hours and a $50 wallet for training compute and purchased model calls; the coding agent's own API costs are additional. Agents choose architectures, obtain data, train models and submit an inference server. Held-out evaluation and a separate compliance review produce a continuous score. This board is the published mean across all 21 tasks, on a 0-100 scale, at the fixed $50 budget. The evaluated harness and reasoning effort remain part of each model identity.

Metric: Mean Task Score (%). Source: www.frontierml.org. Saturation forecast: Around March 2028. 14 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Opus 5.5 (xHigh)52.42#3 (Claude Opus 5.5)
2Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xHigh)47.34#10 (Claude Sonnet 5.5)
3GPT-6 Astra (xHigh)42.79#5 (GPT-6 Astra)
4Claude Fable 5.1 (xHigh)37.4#9 (Claude Fable 5.1)
5GPT-6.1 Sol (xHigh)36.2#8 (GPT-6.1 Sol)
6Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max)29.09#35 (Claude Haiku 5.5)
7Qwen 3.8 Max (xHigh)19.44#31 (Qwen 3.8 Max)
8Kimi K3 (Max)17.77#30 (Kimi K3)
9GLM-5.3 (Max)17.37#40 (GLM-5.3)
10GPT-6 Luna (xHigh)13.32#52 (GPT-6 Luna)

No result here: #7 Gemini 4 Argon.

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