PhageBench - Lifestyle Classification: leaderboard

Metric: Accuracy (%) on 1,000 two-option items classifying a phage as virulent or temperate, 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 2030. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Gemini 3 Flash (Medium)57.4
2GPT-5.2 (Medium)51.5
3Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking)50
4Qwen 3 Max (Thinking)49.9
5GPT-OSS-120B49.5
6GPT-4o Mini48.4

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=phagebench-lifestyle-classification · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-07.