VIALS-AA: leaderboard
Artificial Analysis' implementation of Handshake AI's VIALS (life-science image interpretation: blots, plasmid maps, phylogenetics, flow cytometry, molecular and protein structures). AA evaluates the released 161-task set; models get the question and image file paths, a sandbox with Python and no network, and an image-viewing tool if vision-capable, through AA's Stirrup harness. Three independent repeats per task, graded by GPT-6 Luna (medium) with the upstream judge prompts; a missing answer or refusal scores zero. This board reports pass^3: share of the 161 tasks answered correctly in all three repeats. Distinct from the paper's direct-VLM 'VIALS' board. Rows keep AA's effort labels (for example Max, High, Xhigh).
Metric: Pass^3 (%). Source: artificialanalysis.ai. Saturation forecast: Around February 2028. 19 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 4 Carbon (High) | 63.98 | #1 (Gemini 4 Carbon) |
| 2 | GPT-6 Astra (Max) | 62.73 | #5 (GPT-6 Astra) |
| 3 | GPT-6.1 Terra (Max) | 60.25 | #14 (GPT-6.1 Terra) |
| 4 | Gemini 4 Argon (High) | 59.63 | #9 (Gemini 4 Argon) |
| 5 | GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) | 59.01 | #6 (GPT-6.1 Sol) |
| 6 | Muse Wonder (Max) | 55.28 | #16 (Muse Wonder) |
| 7 | Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max) | 49.07 | #46 (Claude Haiku 5.5) |
| 8 | Kimi K3.1 Pro | 45.34 | #18 |
| 9 | MiMo-V2.6-Pro | 43.48 | #51 |
| 10 | Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) | 40.99 | #30 (Gemini 3.8 Flash) |
| 11 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017) (Max) | 40.37 | #28 (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1017)) |
| 12 | GLM-5.3 Flash | 39.75 | #79 |
| 13 | Grok 4.7 (xHigh) | 37.89 | #26 (Grok 4.7) |
| 14 | Qwen 3.8 Max (0902) | 31.68 | #37 |
| 15 | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash | 29.81 | #57 |
No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #10 Claude Fable 5.1.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=vials-aa · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-07.