LisanBench: leaderboard

LisanBench evaluates LLMs on open-ended word-chain generation, stressing vocabulary, planning, recall, persistence, and exact edit-distance rule following.

Metric: Mean Path Length / Current Maximum. Source: github.com. Source: lisanbench.com. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 154 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Opus 5 (High)1#12 (Claude Opus 5)
2Claude Opus 4.7 (xHigh)0.93#49 (Claude Opus 4.7)
3Claude Fable 5 (Medium)0.89#16 (Claude Fable 5)
4Kimi K3 (Max)0.68#30 (Kimi K3)
5GPT-5.5 (Medium)0.64#31 (GPT-5.5)
6Claude Opus 4.8 (High)0.61#37 (Claude Opus 4.8)
7Claude Opus 5 (Medium)0.53#12 (Claude Opus 5)
8Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) (High)0.42#58 (Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview))
9Claude Sonnet 5 (High)0.37#57 (Claude Sonnet 5)
10GPT-5.4 (Medium)0.35#79 (GPT-5.4)
11GPT-5.6 Sol (Medium)0.3#19 (GPT-5.6 Sol)
12Gemini 3 Pro (Preview) (High)0.3#66 (Gemini 3 Pro (Preview))
13Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)0.27#60 (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
14GPT-5.2 (Medium)0.23#110 (GPT-5.2)
15Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) (Low)0.23#58 (Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview))

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=lisanbench · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.