Humanity's Last Exam (AA)
Artificial Analysis' own HLE run. Shown for reference.
As of 25 Oct 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Humanity's Last Exam (AA) on BenchLeader with 61.4%, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 at 59.1%, across 615 model configurations with a published result.
- Published by
- Artificial Analysis
- Category
- Reasoning
- Index weight
- Reference only
- Models
- 615
- Data as of
- 25 Oct 2026
- Newest result
- 23 Oct 2026
Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai). Data taken from the public leaderboard.
What the test looks like
Humanity's Last Exam is about 2,500 questions written by subject experts across more than a hundred fields, from classics to chemistry, chosen because frontier models got them wrong at the time of writing. Most are exact-answer or multiple-choice; some include images.
How it is scored
Accuracy on the exact-answer and multiple-choice questions.
What to keep in mind
Artificial Analysis' own run of Humanity's Last Exam, text-only questions, in its fixed harness. Shown for reference; the official Scale AI and CAIS board is counted in the index. Artificial Analysis omits the image questions, so scores differ slightly. See also the Humanity's Last Exam board.
- 1Claude Opus 5.5 (max)61.4%
- 2Claude Fable 5.1 (max)59.1%
- 3Claude Fable 5.1 (xhigh)58.7%
- 4Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh)57.5%
- 5Gemini 4 Argon (high)57.1%
- 6Claude Fable 5.1 (high)55.9%
- 7Claude Opus 5.5 (high)55.6%
- 8Claude Fable 5 (max)55.5%
- 9Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max)55.0%
- 10Claude Opus 5 (max)54.9%
- 11Claude Opus 5.5 (medium)54.7%
- 12GPT-6 Astra (max)54.7%
- 13GPT-6 Astra (xhigh)54.6%
- 14Claude Opus 5 (xhigh)54.4%
- 15Claude Fable 5.1 (medium)53.8%
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 61.4% | 72.6 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 2 | 59.1% | 70.5 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 3 | 58.7% | 69.5 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 4 | 57.5% | 70.0 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 5 | 57.1% | 70.7 | 2026-09-30 | |
| 6 | 55.9% | 69.4 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 7 | 55.6% | 69.4 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 8 | 55.5% | 69.3 | 2026-06-09 | |
| 9 | 55.0% | 69.4 | 2026-09-28 | |
| 10 | 54.9% | 68.8 | 2026-07-24 | |
| 11 | 54.7% | 66.5 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 12 | 54.7% | 70.4 | 2026-09-03 | |
| 13 | 54.6% | 68.9 | 2026-09-03 | |
| 14 | 54.4% | 67.4 | 2026-07-24 | |
| 15 | 53.8% | 67.3 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 16 | 53.6% | 70.6 | 2026-10-12 | |
| 17 | 53.1% | 69.6 | 2026-09-03 | |
| 18 | 52.9% | 69.9 | 2026-09-29 | |
| 19 | 52.8% | 67.9 | 2026-07-24 | |
| 20 | 52.7% | 67.5 | 2026-09-03 | |
| 21 | 52.6% | 67.7 | 2026-09-29 | |
| 22 | New | 52.5% | 66.9 | 2026-10-23 |
| 23 | 51.4% | 67.7 | 2026-09-29 | |
| 24 | 51.3% | 64.6 | 2026-07-24 | |
| 25 | 50.1% | 67.5 | 2026-10-12 | |
| 26 | 50.0% | 67.9 | 2026-09-28 | |
| 27 | 49.9% | 67.2 | 2026-09-29 | |
| 28 | 49.5% | 68.0 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 29 | 49.4% | 64.0 | 2026-09-21 | |
| 30 | 49.2% | 65.9 | 2026-09-03 | |
| 31 | 48.9% | 65.0 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 32 | 48.7% | 67.1 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 33 | 48.7% | 63.3 | 2026-05-28 | |
| 34 | 48.3% | 64.7 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 35 | New | 48.0% | 61.9 | 2026-10-19 |
| 36 | 47.9% | 66.4 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 37 | 47.9% | 63.5 | 2026-08-13 | |
| 38 | 47.8% | 64.4 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 39 | 47.5% | 64.9 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 40 | 47.4% | 64.9 | 2026-09-29 | |
| 41 | 47.3% | 66.6 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 42 | 47.0% | 60.5 | 2026-02-19 | |
| 43 | 46.9% | 64.8 | 2026-07-16 | |
| 44 | 46.5% | 60.5 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 45 | 46.3% | 64.3 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 46 | 46.2% | 61.6 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 47 | 46.0% | 66.3 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 48 | 45.8% | 65.6 | 2026-09-28 | |
| 49 | 45.8% | 66.1 | 2026-04-23 | |
| 50 | 45.5% | 63.2 | 2026-08-05 | |
| 51 | 45.0% | 65.3 | 2026-04-23 | |
| 52 | 44.4% | 60.5 | 2026-10-07 | |
| 53 | 44.1% | 63.7 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 54 | 44.1% | 62.5 | 2026-08-12 | |
| 55 | 43.9% | 62.0 | 2026-10-15 | |
| 56 | 43.7% | 64.7 | 2026-03-05 | |
| 57 | JT-4.1 Flash 236B A21Bthinking | 43.6% | – | 2026-07-09 |
| 58 | 43.5% | – | 2026-10-22 | |
| 59 | 43.4% | 61.3 | 2026-07-24 | |
| 60 | 43.3% | 64.0 | 2026-10-17 |
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Humanity's Last Exam (AA): questions
- What does Humanity's Last Exam (AA) measure?
- Humanity's Last Exam is about 2,500 questions written by subject experts across more than a hundred fields, from classics to chemistry, chosen because frontier models got them wrong at the time of writing. Most are exact-answer or multiple-choice; some include images. Scores are reported in percent of tasks solved; higher is better.
- Which AI model leads Humanity's Last Exam (AA)?
- Claude Opus 5.5 leads Humanity's Last Exam (AA) with 61.4% as of 25 Oct 2026, ahead of Claude Fable 5.1 at 59.1%.
- How many models have Humanity's Last Exam (AA) results?
- 615 model configurations have a Humanity's Last Exam (AA) result on BenchLeader, all taken from Artificial Analysis.
- Who runs Humanity's Last Exam (AA) and how often is it updated?
- Humanity's Last Exam (AA) is published by Artificial Analysis. BenchLeader re-reads the published results once a day and records the date each result was published.
- Does Humanity's Last Exam (AA) count toward the BenchLeader Index?
- No. Humanity's Last Exam (AA) is shown for reference but left out of the composite index.