PhageBench - Host Prediction: leaderboard

Metric: Accuracy (%) on 1,200 four-option items naming the bacterial host order, family or genus, each a raw-nucleotide multiple-choice question with shuffled options, zero-shot chain-of-thought prompting (reasoning models at reasoning effort medium with at most 2,048 reasoning tokens); higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around November 2027. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Gemini 3 Flash (Medium)62.5
2Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking)44.17
3GPT-OSS-120B41
4GPT-5.2 (Medium)35.25
5Qwen 3 Max (Thinking)34.75
6GPT-4o Mini27.75

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