PCFBench - Background Mapping: leaderboard

PCFBench (2026) is a diagnostic benchmark for product carbon footprint estimation, carving the workflow into independently scored tasks over 614 expert-labelled items. Exact-match accuracy of mapping material names to the correct background-database activity, agentic harness, in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Exact-match accuracy (%; mapping 109 material names to the correct ecoinvent activity; agentic harness; from PCFBench, a product-carbon-footprint benchmark of 614 expert-labelled items; scored deterministically or by a temperature-0 judge; higher is better). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)93#91
2Claude Opus 4.685#100
3DeepSeek V3.284#403
4Claude Sonnet 4.682#158
5GPT-5.580#48
6Claude Haiku 4.579#568
7GPT-5.4 Mini75#389
8Gemini 3 Flash68#159

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=pcfbench-background-mapping · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.