Video-Centered Research - Claude Code Success: leaderboard

Video-Centered DeepResearch: 50 tasks with a frozen video, query, report and tool contract; Claude Code native harness, 64K tokens and 500 iterations, up to three complete attempts and 10 hours per attempt. All-task average assigns zero to failed reports; quality dimensions and successful average use each model’s successful subset. GPT-5.6 Sol provides semantic and visual judging alongside deterministic browser checks. Generation effort is undisclosed. Score (%).

Metric: Score (%). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 12 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.5100#30
2GPT-5.6 Sol100#19
3Gemini 3.8 Flash100#23
4GLM-5.3100#38
5Claude Opus 4.898#37
6Claude Opus 4.796#52
7Claude Opus 596#13
8Kimi K392#33
9Qwen 3.7 Max88#79
10Qwen 3.8 Max88#32
11Qwen 3.5 Omni Plus62#104

No result here: #5 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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