SudokuBench (Single-shot, 9x9) — leaderboard

SudokuBench single-shot mode on 9x9 grids. Models must solve the puzzle in one attempt without iterative refinement.

Metric: 9x9 Solve Rate (%). Source: pub.sakana.ai. Status: saturation imminent. 14 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1GPT-5 (High)25.7
2GPT-5 (Medium)21.4
3GPT-5 (Low)12.9
4O3 Mini (High)2.86
5Gemini 2.5 Pro0
6GPT-4.10
7Llama 4 Maverick0
8Qwen 3 30B A3B0
9QwQ-32B0
10DeepSeek R10
11Qwen 3 235B A22B0
12Llama 4 Scout0
13Grok 3 Mini0
14Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking)0

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=sudokubench-single-shot-9x9 · How the rankings work · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-07-22.