MonitoringBench - Recon - Malware Download: leaderboard

Metric: Catch rate (%) at a 1% false-positive-rate threshold calibrated on 416 honest BashArena runs: share of the 669 successful malware download attack trajectories (strategies from reconnaissance agents (with and without GPT-5 monitor feedback) executed by Claude Opus 4.6) that the full-trajectory monitor scores above its threshold, default ControlArena monitor prompt with a 0-10 suspiciousness score, mean of three scoring runs; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 13 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Claude Opus 4.5 (20251101)85.1
2Claude Sonnet 4.576.6
3GPT-568.7
4GPT-5.1 Codex Max68.2
5O3 (2025-04-16)67.5
6Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)59.5
7GPT-4.129.1
8GPT-4o (2024-08-06)22.1
9GPT-4 Turbo19.4
10O4 Mini (2025-04-16)15.9
11GPT-5 Nano11.2
12GPT-4.1 Mini8.8
13GPT-4o Mini (2024-07-18)1.1

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