OpenAI GPT-5.6 Launch - Internal Research Debugging Evaluation: leaderboard

Self-improvement table of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch post (2026-07-09): models must find and fix real bugs in internal OpenAI research experiments that took researchers hours to days to resolve (per the GPT-5.6 system card). Score in percent, higher is better; OpenAI models only.

Metric: Score (%). Source: openai.com. Source: deploymentsafety.openai.com. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 4 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-6 Astra78.05#6
2GPT-6.1 Terra76.39#15
3GPT-6.1 Sol75.52#7
4GPT-5.6 Sol68.3#22
5GPT-5.6 Terra67.8#40
6GPT-6 Sol64.2#19
7GPT-5.6 Luna50.8#79
8GPT-5.550#33

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #9 Gemini 4 Argon, #10 Claude Fable 5.1.

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