RSI-Exam: leaderboard

rsi-exam.ai: can an agent improve the machine-learning system it is handed? 88 recursive-self-improvement tasks, each normalised so the shipped baseline scores 0, a frontier-calibrated reference 0.6 and a proven upper bound 1; the published number is the mean over the hidden test set. Each model runs in its own vendor CLI at its top effort setting.

Metric: Mean hidden-set score. Source: rsi-exam.ai. Saturation forecast: Around March 2028. 18 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Opus 5.5 (Max)0.54#3 (Claude Opus 5.5)
2GPT-6 Astra (Max)0.51#6 (GPT-6 Astra)
3Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)0.48#9 (Claude Fable 5.1)
4Claude Opus 5 (Max)0.46#12 (Claude Opus 5)
5GPT-5.6 Sol (Max)0.43#19 (GPT-5.6 Sol)
6GLM-5.3 (Max)0.4#39 (GLM-5.3)
7Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)0.39#24 (Muse Spark 1.3)
8Grok 4.7 (xHigh)0.38#25 (Grok 4.7)
9Kimi K3 (Max)0.38#30 (Kimi K3)
10Grok 4.6 (xHigh)0.37#26 (Grok 4.6)
11Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)0.34#21 (Gemini 3.8 Flash)
12GPT-5.5 (xHigh)0.33#31 (GPT-5.5)
13DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)0.32#102 (DeepSeek V4 Pro)
14Qwen 3.8 Max (xHigh)0.32#35 (Qwen 3.8 Max)
15Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)0.31#23 (Gemini 3.7 Flash)

No result here: #7 GPT-6.1 Sol, #8 Gemini 4 Argon, #10 Muse Wonder Full.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=rsi-exam · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.