SimpleQA Verified: leaderboard

A thousand short factual questions with a single verifiable answer, filtered by Google from OpenAI's SimpleQA to drop duplicates, balance topics and correct answer keys. Models answer from memory with no browsing or tools, and a grader model marks each reply correct, incorrect or not attempted. This board reports the share of questions answered correctly, higher is better. Source: arxiv.org/abs/2509.07968.

Metric: Accuracy (%). Source: epoch.ai. Saturation forecast: Around May 2027. 91 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 4 Argon (High)76#8 (Gemini 4 Argon)
2GPT-6 Astra (Max)75.6#6 (GPT-6 Astra)
3GPT-6.1 Sol (Max)73.9#7 (GPT-6.1 Sol)
4Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) (High)73.5#58 (Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview))
5Claude Opus 5.5 (Max)72.2#3 (Claude Opus 5.5)
6Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)70.8#9 (Claude Fable 5.1)
7Claude Fable 5 (xHigh)70.7#16 (Claude Fable 5)
8GPT-5.6 Sol (Max)69.7#19 (GPT-5.6 Sol)
9Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)69.7#21 (Gemini 3.8 Flash)
10Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)69.2#23 (Gemini 3.7 Flash)
11Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) (High)66.8#82 (Gemini 3 Flash (Preview))
12Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)66.2#60 (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
13Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)66.2#51 (Gemini 3.6 Flash)
14GPT-5.5 (xHigh)63#31 (GPT-5.5)
15GPT-6 Sol (Max)60.7#14 (GPT-6 Sol)

No result here: #10 Muse Wonder Full.

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