PAIR-Bench - Hint Efficiency: leaderboard
Metric: Hint efficiency score (out of 6): 7 minus the hint level, from 1 for coarse symptoms to 6 for implementation guidance, at which each attempted failure scenario is closed, 0 when it is never closed, averaged over scenarios and initially failing instances; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around December 2026. 8 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek V3.2 | 4.79 |
| 2 | GPT-4o Mini | 3.8 |
| 3 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite | 3.76 |
| 4 | Qwen 3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | 3.61 |
| 5 | Ministral 3 14B | 3.29 |
| 6 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | 3.21 |
| 7 | Mistral Small 3.2 | 3.02 |
| 8 | Gemma 3 27B | 2.76 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=pair-bench-hint-efficiency · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-29.