AA-LCR
Long-context reasoning across ~100k-token document sets. Run by Artificial Analysis.
As of 25 Oct 2026, Kimi K3 leads AA-LCR on BenchLeader with 88.7%, ahead of Step 5 Preview at 88.3%, across 548 model configurations with a published result.
- Published by
- Artificial Analysis
- Category
- Long context
- Index weight
- 1.0
- Models
- 548
- 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
AA-LCR gives the model a set of documents totalling around 100,000 tokens and asks questions that require pulling together facts from several of them.
How it is scored
Percent of questions answered correctly, run by Artificial Analysis.
What to keep in mind
A single context length, so it does not show how performance degrades beyond it. Models with smaller windows are excluded or truncated.
- 1Kimi K3 (max)88.7%
- 2Step 5 Preview88.3%
- 3Kimi K3.1 Pro86.3%
- 4MiMo-V2.6-Pro86.3%
- 5Claude Fable 5.1 (max)85.3%
- 6Claude Opus 5.5 (max)84.7%
- 7Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh)84.7%
- 8Claude Fable 5.1 (medium)84.7%
- 9Claude Opus 5.5 (medium)84.3%
- 10GPT-5.5 (xhigh)84.3%
- 11GPT-5.5 (high)84.3%
- 12GPT-5.6 Sol (max)84.0%
- 13GPT-6.1 Sol (low)84.0%
- 14Gemini 3.8 Flash (medium)84.0%
- 15DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)84.0%
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 88.7% | 64.8 | 2026-07-16 | |
| 2 | 88.3% | 60.5 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 3 | New | 86.3% | 66.9 | 2026-10-23 |
| 4 | 86.3% | 64.0 | 2026-09-21 | |
| 5 | 85.3% | 70.5 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 6 | 84.7% | 72.6 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 7 | 84.7% | 70.0 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 8 | 84.7% | 67.3 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 9 | 84.3% | 66.5 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 10 | 84.3% | 66.1 | 2026-04-23 | |
| 11 | 84.3% | 65.3 | 2026-04-23 | |
| 12 | 84.0% | 68.0 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 13 | 84.0% | 64.9 | 2026-09-29 | |
| 14 | 84.0% | 64.4 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 15 | 84.0% | 61.2 | 2026-09-10 | |
| 16 | 83.7% | 70.6 | 2026-10-12 | |
| 17 | 83.7% | 69.4 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 18 | 83.7% | 66.4 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 19 | 83.7% | 63.7 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 20 | 83.7% | 59.9 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 21 | 83.3% | 67.2 | 2026-09-29 | |
| 22 | 83.3% | 63.8 | 2026-02-05 | |
| 23 | 83.3% | 60.0 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 24 | 83.3% | 51.4 | 2026-08-10 | |
| 25 | 83.3% | – | 2026-09-22 | |
| 26 | 83.0% | 69.9 | 2026-09-29 | |
| 27 | 83.0% | 69.5 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 28 | 83.0% | 67.1 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 29 | 83.0% | 64.9 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 30 | 83.0% | 64.4 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 31 | 83.0% | 63.1 | 2026-08-13 | |
| 32 | 83.0% | 62.9 | 2026-04-23 | |
| 33 | 83.0% | 59.1 | 2026-08-26 | |
| 34 | 83.0% | 56.4 | 2026-06-01 | |
| 35 | 83.0% | – | 2026-10-01 | |
| 36 | 82.7% | 69.4 | 2026-09-28 | |
| 37 | 82.7% | 69.4 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 38 | 82.7% | 64.0 | 2026-10-17 | |
| 39 | 82.7% | 60.7 | 2025-12-11 | |
| 40 | 82.7% | 60.5 | 2026-10-07 | |
| 41 | 82.3% | 69.3 | 2026-06-09 | |
| 42 | 82.3% | 67.7 | 2026-09-29 | |
| 43 | 82.3% | 66.6 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 44 | 82.3% | 65.0 | 2026-09-01 | |
| 45 | 82.3% | 62.6 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 46 | 82.3% | 59.4 | 2025-12-11 | |
| 47 | 82.0% | 64.7 | 2026-03-05 | |
| 48 | 82.0% | 64.6 | 2026-07-24 | |
| 49 | 82.0% | 60.5 | 2026-02-19 | |
| 50 | 82.0% | 58.4 | 2026-06-30 | |
| 51 | 82.0% | 56.3 | 2026-08-14 | |
| 52 | 81.7% | 66.3 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 53 | 81.7% | 63.5 | 2026-08-13 | |
| 54 | 81.7% | 59.7 | 2026-07-09 | |
| 55 | 81.7% | 54.7 | 2026-06-02 | |
| 56 | 81.3% | 64.4 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 57 | 81.3% | 64.3 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 58 | 81.3% | 61.3 | 2026-07-24 | |
| 59 | 81.3% | 58.2 | 2026-08-21 | |
| 60 | 81.3% | 56.7 | 2026-10-06 |
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Cite as: BenchLeader, “AA-LCR leaderboard”, data as of 25 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/benchmarks/aa_lcr.
AA-LCR: questions
- What does AA-LCR measure?
- AA-LCR gives the model a set of documents totalling around 100,000 tokens and asks questions that require pulling together facts from several of them. Scores are reported in percent of tasks solved; higher is better.
- Which AI model leads AA-LCR?
- Kimi K3 leads AA-LCR with 88.7% as of 25 Oct 2026, ahead of Step 5 Preview at 88.3%.
- How many models have AA-LCR results?
- 548 model configurations have a AA-LCR result on BenchLeader, all taken from Artificial Analysis.
- Who runs AA-LCR and how often is it updated?
- AA-LCR is published by Artificial Analysis. BenchLeader re-reads the published results once a day and records the date each result was published.
- Does AA-LCR count toward the BenchLeader Index?
- Yes. AA-LCR contributes to the long context category of the BenchLeader Index, normalised so that 50 is the average of the evaluated models.