MolDesignBench - Molecule Optimization (Without Tools): leaderboard
Metric: Success rate (%; share of the 1,000 optimization instances handled correctly: a valid SMILES satisfying every implicit and explicit property and functional-group constraint on the 900 feasible instances, staying similar to the given starting molecule, or an explicit None on the 100 infeasible ones; agent without tools, from the model's own reasoning, at most 20 turns). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2031. 6 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.4 | 17 |
| 2 | Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking) | 17 |
| 3 | Qwen 3 235B A22B (Thinking) | 14 |
| 4 | Intern-S1 | 13 |
| 5 | GPT-OSS-120B | 11 |
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