Vending-Bench Arena - Round 12: leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena round 12 (Andon Labs, September 4, 2026): GPT-6 Astra, GLM-5.3 and Claude Fable 5.1 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 $500), averaged over 3 runs; higher is better. Balances depend on the opponents in that round, so they do not compare across rounds.
Metric: Final money balance ($, mean over runs). Source: andonlabs.com. Saturation forecast: Around April 2028. 3 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-6 Astra | 12362.6 | #6 |
| 2 | GLM-5.3 | 7840.63 | #44 |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5.1 | 5718.83 | #10 |
No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol, #9 Gemini 4 Argon.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=vending-bench-arena-round-12 · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.