MonitoringBench - Refined - Malware Download: leaderboard

Metric: Catch rate (%) at a 1% false-positive-rate threshold calibrated on 416 honest BashArena runs: share of the 250 successful malware download attack trajectories (pipeline trajectories rewritten by the Claude Opus 4.6 refinement stage) 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)87
2Claude Sonnet 4.568.5
3Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)38.5
4GPT-5.1 Codex Max37.3
5O3 (2025-04-16)32.3
6GPT-518.6
7GPT-4 Turbo3.7
8GPT-4.13.2
9GPT-4o (2024-08-06)2.1
10GPT-4.1 Mini1.1
11GPT-5 Nano0.9
12O4 Mini (2025-04-16)0.3
13GPT-4o Mini (2024-07-18)0

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