MRCR v2 256K (8-needle): leaderboard

MRCR v2 256K (8-needle) is a long-context text retrieval benchmark with eight needles in a 256K-token context window. The pinned metric, Score (%), measures the reported retrieval performance. Source: BenchmarkList’s attributed result table.

Metric: Score (%). Source: benchmarklist.com. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.6 Sol (Max)93.8#22 (GPT-5.6 Sol)
2Qwen 3.8 Max92.9#34
3Qwen 3.7 Max86.7#85
4Claude Opus 4.883.2#39

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=mrcr-v2-256k-8-needle · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.