PAIR-Bench - Gap Closure: leaderboard

Gap closure on PAIR-Bench (2026): the percent of the remaining hidden-test pass-rate gap after the first attempt that the best program within the hint budget closes, averaged over initially failing programs. Higher is better.

Metric: Gap closure (%; share of the remaining hidden-test pass-rate gap after the first attempt that the best program within the hint budget closes, averaged over initially failing instances; higher is better). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1DeepSeek V3.298.8#406
2Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite97.51#958
3Qwen 3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct94.25#972
4Ministral 3 14B91.73#1845
5Llama 3.3 70B Instruct89.32#1357
6GPT-4o Mini89.08#1623
7Mistral Small 3.287.92#1591
8Gemma 3 27B80.06#1631

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=pair-bench-gap-closure · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.