Vending-Bench Arena - Round 8: leaderboard

Vending-Bench Arena round 8 (Andon Labs, May 28, 2026): Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 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 September 2027. 3 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.510626.96#33
2Claude Opus 4.75826.74#51
3Claude Opus 4.85188.35#39

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-8 · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.