PatentAgentBench - Claude Code - Novelty Search: leaderboard

PatentAgentBench Novelty Search evaluates patent evidence search, comparison, drafting, responses and translation under Claude Code 2.1.251. Its primary Hit@100 (%) uses the full assigned case denominator, including final failures after up to three execution-failure retries. Harnesses and unreported model effort remain distinct source configurations. The suite has 510 patent cases; its public banks contain 1,311 records because translation's 80 cases contain 881 segment items.

Metric: Hit@100 (%). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 7 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Opus 5 (PatentAgentBench Run: 2610.35031v1; Claude Opus 5; Claude Code 2.1.251; effort unreported)52.5
2GLM-5.3 (PatentAgentBench Run: 2610.35031v1; GLM-5.3; Claude Code 2.1.251; effort unreported)50
3GPT-5.6 Sol (PatentAgentBench Run: 2610.35031v1; GPT-5.6-Sol; Claude Code 2.1.251; effort unreported)38.8
4DeepSeek V4 Pro (PatentAgentBench Run: 2610.35031v1; DeepSeek-V4-Pro; Claude Code 2.1.251; effort unreported)37.5
5Kimi K3 (PatentAgentBench Run: 2610.35031v1; Kimi K3; Claude Code 2.1.251; effort unreported)33.8
6Qwen 3.8 Max (PatentAgentBench Run: 2610.35031v1; Qwen3.8-Max; Claude Code 2.1.251; effort unreported)32.5
7MiniMax-M3 (PatentAgentBench Run: 2610.35031v1; MiniMax-M3; Claude Code 2.1.251; effort unreported)27.5

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