Vending-Bench Arena - Round 1: leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena round 1 (Andon Labs, November 18, 2025): Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5.1, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro each run a vending machine at one location in the Vending-Bench 2 simulation and can email, pay and trade with each other. Final money balance in US dollars (start $500), averaged over 4 runs; higher is better. Balances depend on the opponents in that round, so they do not compare across rounds.
Metric: Final money balance ($, mean over runs). Source: andonlabs.com. Saturation forecast: Around March 2027. 4 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 3 Pro | 3384.25 | #82 |
| 2 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 1104.9 | #148 |
| 3 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | 772.54 | #159 |
| 4 | GPT-5.1 | 108.06 | #145 |
No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=vending-bench-arena-round-1 · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.