SciUniverse: leaderboard

C5R's benchmark of hands-on scientific work: models direct chemistry, biology and materials experiments at the Facility-0 lab, controlling instruments and instructing human operators, or in its digital twin. Level 1 has 92 tasks in 17 families, from powder pressing, synthesis and liquid-handler control to NMR, XRD and LC-MRM interpretation, reaction optimization under a budget and two simulated weeks of lab management. Pass@1, with each family weighted equally.

Metric: Pass@1 (%). Source: c5r.net. Saturation forecast: Around May 2028. 6 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Claude Fable 5.1 (xHigh)45.3
2GPT-6 (xHigh)32.5
3Claude Opus 5 (xHigh)30.5
4Grok 4.6 (xHigh)26.2
5Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)14.6
6GPT-5.6 Sol (xHigh)9.4

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