GPSBench (Applied) - Proximity: leaderboard

Metric: Score (%) on the proximity (which of four named cities lies closest to a reference city) task of GPSBench's Applied Track (geographic reasoning that combines coordinates or place names with world knowledge); 1,020 test samples; zero-shot from the model's own knowledge, no tools, no chain-of-thought or few-shot prompting, temperature 0; choice tasks score accuracy and numerical tasks one minus the mean absolute percentage error; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 14 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5 Mini (Low)89.6#176 (GPT-5 Mini)
2Gemini 2.5 Pro86.4#145
3GPT-4.184.4#240
4GPT-4.1 Mini82.4#346
5Mistral Large 381.8#388
6Gemini 2.5 Flash (Non-reasoning)80.5#237 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
7GPT-5.1 (Low)73.3#131 (GPT-5.1)
8Claude Haiku 4.571.3#271
9Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 Instruct70.9#291
10GPT-5 Nano (Low)33.1#415 (GPT-5 Nano)
11Qwen 3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct24.2#464
12Qwen 3 14B (Non-reasoning)18.6#524 (Qwen 3 14B)
13Qwen 3 8B (Non-reasoning)12.4#667 (Qwen 3 8B)

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #8 Claude Fable 5.1.

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