ManiBench: leaderboard

Metric: Executability (%): share of zero-shot generated Manim CE scripts for ManiBench's 12 pilot problems that render without errors or deprecated-API use in a sandbox with a 60-second timeout; temperature 0; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Kimi K2.566.7#139
2Claude Sonnet 466.7#194
3Gemini 2.5 Pro33.3#145
4Qwen 3.5 Plus33.3#123
5Qwen 3 235B A22B25#304
6Llama 3.1 8B Instruct8.3#1018
7Gemma 3 27B0#596
8Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct0#516

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

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