TravelEval - Cost Calculation Deviation: leaderboard

TravelEval (KDD 2026) asks an LLM for a complete multi-day travel plan and simulates it in a sandbox of 10 Chinese cities with real transport, hotel and attraction data. Scores are from Direct prompting over 1,150 queries. The board is the summed error of the itemised cost arithmetic in the plan divided by the true total cost, a ratio where 0 is exact; lower is better.

Metric: Cost Calculation Deviation (CCD): summed absolute error of the plan's itemised costs over the actual total cost (ratio, 0 is exact); Direct prompting (one pass, no tools), plans simulated in the TravelEval sandbox of 10 Chinese cities (real rail, flight, hotel and attraction data, queuing-time model, road-network distances) over 1,150 queries; lower is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around December 2026. 7 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Sonnet 4.50.07#250
2GPT-5 Chat0.1#444
3DeepSeek V3.1 (Non-reasoning)0.13#497 (DeepSeek V3.1)
4Gemini 2.0 Flash0.14#704
5GPT-4o (2024-11-20)0.14#866
6Qwen 3 8B0.19#1830
7GPT-4o Mini (2024-07-18)0.28#1510

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=traveleval-cost-calculation-deviation · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.