Vending-Bench Arena - Round 11: leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena round 11 (Andon Labs, July 24, 2026): Claude Opus 5, Kimi K3 and GPT-5.6 Sol 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 $500), averaged over 6 runs; higher is better. Balances depend on the opponents in that round, so they do not compare across rounds.
Metric: Final money balance ($, mean over runs). Source: andonlabs.com. Saturation forecast: Around April 2028. 3 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 7443.94 | #22 |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5 | 7044.24 | #16 |
| 3 | Kimi K3 | 3193.75 | #35 |
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-11 · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.