KnowledgeActive
Trust Score:
90

SimpleQA

4,326 short fact-seeking questions chosen to stump GPT-4 — a hallucination test graded correct / incorrect / not-attempted.

Launched: —Refresh: static
Status Assessment (active):

Still discriminating hard. Frontier models remain well short of the ceiling on parametric recall: GPT-4o 38% correct at launch, GPT-4.5 ~62% by early 2025 — climbing but nowhere near solved, and reasoning-tuned models do not automatically help (o1-mini scored 8%). What would move it off 'active': frontier 'correct' crossing ~85–90% (approaching the label ceiling), OR retrieval-augmented deployment becoming universal enough that closed-book parametric recall stops mattering. Neither has happened.

Performance Timeline

Longitudinal progression of model scores against human baselines.

Performance & Historical Trajectory

Empirical score progression across model release dates and evaluation rounds.

Independent Vendor-Reported Human Baseline (94.4%)
ModelScoreDateSource TypeProvenance
MiMo-V2.6-Flash44.9%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Claude Opus 5.543.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Qwen 3.8 Max Prime40.6%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL42.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Gemini 4 Argon46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Claude Haiku 5.542.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Nano Banana 2.146%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Mistral Large 444.2%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6.1 Sol Pro46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6.1 Sol46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Claude Sonnet 5.546%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Prime46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6 Luna Pro42.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6 Luna42.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6 Sol Pro46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6 Sol46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Claude Opus 5.547.6%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Flash42.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.6-Pro42.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX44.2%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash42.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6 Astra47.6%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6 Astra Pro47.6%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.8 Flash46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Claude Fable 5.147.6%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Claude Sonnet 5.549.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Claude Haiku 5.546.3%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6.1 Sol Pro50.2%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6 Luna48.9%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Gemini 4 Argon49.9%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.8 Flash48.8%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Qwen 3.8 Max Prime48.4%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 101742.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6.1 Terra Pro46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
GPT-6.1 Terra46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
MiniMax: MiniMax M3.1 Flash42.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Muse Spark Open46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B42.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Muse Wonder47.6%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime47.6%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Upstage: Solar Mini 440%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.746%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash42.1%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)46%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor40%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Muse Spark 1.346%2026-09-12independentSource ↗
Hy448%2026-09-11independentSource ↗
Hy444.2%2026-09-11independentSource ↗
GLM 5.3 Flash48.7%2026-09-10independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash42.1%2026-09-10independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash42.1%2026-09-10independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp42.1%2026-09-05independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4-Pro47.9%2026-08-31independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4-Flash45.8%2026-08-31independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 5.346%2026-08-31independentSource ↗
Claude Fable 5.149.3%2026-08-30independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B44.2%2026-08-29independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.7 Flash48.5%2026-08-28independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.7 Flash46%2026-08-28independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4 Pro 081346%2026-08-28independentSource ↗
Grok 4.648.4%2026-08-27independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B46%2026-08-27independentSource ↗
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-2.6B42.1%2026-08-26independentSource ↗
ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo44.2%2026-08-25independentSource ↗
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.646%2026-08-25independentSource ↗
Muse Glimmer 30B44.2%2026-08-25independentSource ↗
GPT-548.8%2026-08-22independentSource ↗
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning40%2026-08-22independentSource ↗
GPT-5 Image Mini44.2%2026-08-22independentSource ↗
GPT-5 Image46%2026-08-22independentSource ↗
Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor40%2026-08-20independentSource ↗
Muse Spark 1.246%2026-08-20independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash48.6%2026-08-16independentSource ↗
Space Bunny Alpha47.4%2026-08-16independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4 Flash 073146.2%2026-08-15independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4 Flash 073144.2%2026-08-15independentSource ↗
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code44.2%2026-08-14independentSource ↗
GPT-6 Astra49%2026-08-12independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash40%2026-08-11independentSource ↗
Kimi K348.6%2026-08-10independentSource ↗
Claude Opus 549.3%2026-08-08independentSource ↗
Claude Sonnet 548.3%2026-08-08independentSource ↗
Claude Opus 547.6%2026-08-07independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.6 Flash47.7%2026-08-05independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite45.5%2026-08-05independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.6 Flash46%2026-08-05independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite44.2%2026-08-05independentSource ↗
MoonshotAI: Kimi K347.6%2026-07-30independentSource ↗
GPT-5.6 Sol49.7%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
GPT-5.5 Thinking48.9%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
GPT-5.6 Luna46.8%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
GPT-5.6 Luna Pro44.2%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
GPT-5.6 Luna44.2%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
GPT-5.6 Terra Pro47.6%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
GPT-5.6 Terra47.6%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
GPT-5.6 Sol Pro47.6%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
GPT-5.6 Sol47.6%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
Muse Spark 1.146%2026-07-24independentSource ↗
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.546%2026-07-23independentSource ↗
Hy342.1%2026-07-21independentSource ↗
Claude Sonnet 546%2026-07-15independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image44.2%2026-07-15independentSource ↗
MiniMax M346.5%2026-07-10independentSource ↗
Qwen3-235B47.6%2026-07-03independentSource ↗
QwQ Plus47.2%2026-07-03independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 5.244.2%2026-07-01independentSource ↗
Grok 448.6%2026-06-30independentSource ↗
GLM-5.247.1%2026-06-27independentSource ↗
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code46%2026-06-27independentSource ↗
Claude Fable 549.9%2026-06-24independentSource ↗
Claude Fable 547.6%2026-06-24independentSource ↗
Nemotron 3 Ultra45.6%2026-06-19independentSource ↗
Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety40%2026-06-19independentSource ↗
Nemotron 3 Ultra44.2%2026-06-19independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus44.2%2026-06-17independentSource ↗
MiniMax: MiniMax M344.2%2026-06-15independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image44.2%2026-06-12independentSource ↗
Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro)47.6%2026-06-12independentSource ↗
Claude Opus 4.847.6%2026-06-12independentSource ↗
Hy-MT2-1.8B40%2026-06-05independentSource ↗
Hy-MT2-30B-A3B42.1%2026-06-05independentSource ↗
Hy-MT2-7B42.1%2026-06-05independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max46%2026-06-04independentSource ↗
SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.144.2%2026-06-04independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.5 Flash46%2026-06-03independentSource ↗
Gemini 3 Pro48.1%2026-06-02independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite44.2%2026-05-22independentSource ↗
GPT Chat Latest47.6%2026-05-20independentSource ↗
Command A+44.2%2026-05-16independentSource ↗
Mistral Medium 3.546%2026-05-15independentSource ↗
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.344.2%2026-05-15independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash44.2%2026-05-12independentSource ↗
GPT-5.5 Pro47.6%2026-05-08independentSource ↗
GPT-5.547.6%2026-05-08independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4 Pro 042344.2%2026-05-08independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V4 Flash 042340%2026-05-08independentSource ↗
MiMo-V2.544.3%2026-05-07independentSource ↗
Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5-Pro42.1%2026-05-07independentSource ↗
Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.542.1%2026-05-07independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B44.2%2026-05-07independentSource ↗
Hy342.1%2026-05-06independentSource ↗
GPT-5.4 Image 247.6%2026-05-06independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-2044.2%2026-05-05independentSource ↗
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.646%2026-05-05independentSource ↗
Claude Opus 4.747.6%2026-05-01independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B42.1%2026-04-30independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 5.146%2026-04-21independentSource ↗
Gemma 4 26B A4B42.1%2026-04-18independentSource ↗
Gemma 4 31B42.1%2026-04-17independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus44.2%2026-04-17independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo46%2026-04-16independentSource ↗
Lyria 3 Pro40%2026-04-14independentSource ↗
Lyria 3 Clip40%2026-04-14independentSource ↗
Reka Edge40%2026-04-04independentSource ↗
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.744.2%2026-04-02independentSource ↗
GPT-5.4 Nano44.2%2026-04-01independentSource ↗
GPT-5.4 Mini46%2026-04-01independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 5 Turbo46%2026-03-30independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B42.1%2026-03-25independentSource ↗
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent44.2%2026-03-24independentSource ↗
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.2044.2%2026-03-24independentSource ↗
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite44.2%2026-03-24independentSource ↗
GPT-5.4 Pro47.6%2026-03-20independentSource ↗
GPT-5.447.6%2026-03-20independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite44.2%2026-03-18independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.1 Flash Image44.2%2026-03-13independentSource ↗
GPT-5.3-Codex47.6%2026-03-11independentSource ↗
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Mini42.1%2026-03-11independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B42.1%2026-03-11independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B44.2%2026-03-11independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B44.2%2026-03-11independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.5-Flash42.1%2026-03-11independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.1 Pro Custom Tools47.6%2026-03-06independentSource ↗
Gemini 3.1 Pro47.6%2026-03-06independentSource ↗
Claude Sonnet 4.647.6%2026-03-04independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-1544.2%2026-03-03independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B46%2026-03-03independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 546%2026-02-26independentSource ↗
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.542.1%2026-02-26independentSource ↗
Claude Opus 4.647.6%2026-02-20independentSource ↗
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.544.2%2026-02-11independentSource ↗
MiniMax: MiniMax M2-her44.2%2026-02-07independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Flash42.1%2026-02-03independentSource ↗
GPT-5.2-Codex47.6%2026-01-29independentSource ↗
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.144.2%2026-01-07independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 4.744.2%2026-01-06independentSource ↗
o347.8%2026-01-04independentSource ↗
Gemini 3 Flash44.2%2026-01-01independentSource ↗
GPT-5.2 Chat47.6%2025-12-26independentSource ↗
GPT-5.2 Pro47.6%2025-12-26independentSource ↗
GPT-5.247.6%2025-12-26independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 4.6V42.1%2025-12-23independentSource ↗
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max46%2025-12-19independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V3.242.1%2025-12-16independentSource ↗
Claude Opus 4.547.6%2025-12-09independentSource ↗
Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro)47.6%2025-12-05independentSource ↗
GPT-5.146%2025-11-28independentSource ↗
GPT-5.1-Codex46%2025-11-28independentSource ↗
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini44.2%2025-11-28independentSource ↗
Mistral Large 344.7%2025-11-27independentSource ↗
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 Thinking44.2%2025-11-21independentSource ↗
MiniMax: MiniMax M244.2%2025-11-07independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct42.1%2025-10-29independentSource ↗
GPT-5 Pro47.6%2025-10-21independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking42.1%2025-10-21independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct42.1%2025-10-21independentSource ↗
Claude Haiku 4.546%2025-10-16independentSource ↗
Claude Sonnet 4.547.6%2025-10-14independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct44.2%2025-10-08independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Flash42.1%2025-10-02independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct44.2%2025-09-26independentSource ↗
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 090544.2%2025-09-19independentSource ↗
GPT-546%2025-08-22independentSource ↗
GPT-5 Mini44.2%2025-08-22independentSource ↗
GPT-5 Nano42.1%2025-08-22independentSource ↗
Claude 4.1 Opus47.6%2025-08-20independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct42.1%2025-08-15independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 250742.1%2025-08-13independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 250746%2025-08-09independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B42.1%2025-08-07independentSource ↗
ByteDance: UI-TARS 7B40%2025-08-06independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250742.1%2025-08-05independentSource ↗
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 071144.2%2025-07-26independentSource ↗
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash42.1%2025-07-10independentSource ↗
ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.644.2%2025-07-10independentSource ↗
MiniMax: MiniMax M144.2%2025-07-02independentSource ↗
Sarvam 105B46%2025-06-30independentSource ↗
o3 Pro47.6%2025-06-25independentSource ↗
Sarvam Vision (Document AI)43.4%2025-06-04independentSource ↗
Amazon Nova 2 Lite42.6%2025-06-02independentSource ↗
Amazon Nova 2 Lite41.8%2025-06-02independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B42.1%2025-05-13independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 14B42.1%2025-05-13independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 32B42.1%2025-05-13independentSource ↗
o4 Mini High46%2025-05-01independentSource ↗
o346%2025-05-01independentSource ↗
o4 Mini46%2025-05-01independentSource ↗
Muse Wonder48.3%2025-04-30independentSource ↗
Muse Wonder Full49.5%2025-04-30independentSource ↗
GPT-4.146%2025-04-29independentSource ↗
GPT-4.1 Mini44.2%2025-04-29independentSource ↗
GPT-4.1 Nano42.1%2025-04-29independentSource ↗
Gemma 3 27B43.8%2025-04-27independentSource ↗
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B47.4%2025-04-25independentSource ↗
Sarvam 30B43.8%2025-04-25independentSource ↗
Llama 4 Maverick46.9%2025-04-20independentSource ↗
Llama 4 Scout46.4%2025-04-20independentSource ↗
Gemini 2.5 Pro47.4%2025-04-09independentSource ↗
Gemini 2.5 Pro46%2025-04-09independentSource ↗
Gemini 2.5 Pro 06-0546%2025-04-09independentSource ↗
Microsoft-Decision-145.1%2025-04-06independentSource ↗
Nemotron 3 Super 120B44.2%2025-04-04independentSource ↗
OpenAI Decisions API48%2025-04-02independentSource ↗
Jev 1.1446.7%2025-03-29independentSource ↗
Krutrim-244.9%2025-03-27independentSource ↗
Reka Flash 340%2025-03-27independentSource ↗
Amazon Nova Premier 1.047.2%2025-03-25independentSource ↗
Amazon: Nova Premier 1.047.6%2025-03-25independentSource ↗
QwQ 32B44.8%2025-03-20independentSource ↗
Saaras v3 (Speech-to-Text)42.6%2025-03-16independentSource ↗
Bulbul v3 (Text-to-Speech)41.9%2025-03-16independentSource ↗
Phi-4-multimodal41.9%2025-03-15independentSource ↗
Claude 3.7 Sonnet48.1%2025-03-11independentSource ↗
Grok 346.7%2025-03-04independentSource ↗
Grok 3 Mini44.3%2025-03-04independentSource ↗
Phi-4-mini39.1%2025-03-02independentSource ↗
Perplexity: Sonar Deep Research46%2025-03-01independentSource ↗
GPT-4.562.5%2025-02-27vendor-reportedSource ↗
Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking)45.8%2025-02-25independentSource ↗
Perplexity: Sonar Reasoning Pro46%2025-02-21independentSource ↗
Gemini 2.0 Pro45%2025-02-20independentSource ↗
Gemini 2.0 Flash42.7%2025-02-20independentSource ↗
Sonar Reasoning Pro46.9%2025-02-20independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next42.1%2025-02-18independentSource ↗
o3-mini46.5%2025-02-15independentSource ↗
o3 Mini High46%2025-02-15independentSource ↗
o3 Mini46%2025-02-15independentSource ↗
Qwen 2.5 Max44.6%2025-02-12independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct42.1%2025-02-10independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen-Plus42.1%2025-02-09independentSource ↗
Ollama DeepSeek-R1 (Q4_K_M)46.9%2025-02-06independentSource ↗
Perplexity: Sonar Pro Search47.6%2025-02-05independentSource ↗
Perplexity: Sonar Pro47.6%2025-02-05independentSource ↗
DeepSeek-R147.3%2025-02-04independentSource ↗
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking45.7%2025-02-04independentSource ↗
Kimi k1.543.7%2025-02-04independentSource ↗
R1 052844.2%2025-02-04independentSource ↗
MiniMax-Text-0142.6%2025-01-30independentSource ↗
MiniMax: MiniMax-0144.2%2025-01-30independentSource ↗
Codestral 25.0140.8%2025-01-29independentSource ↗
Phi-444.1%2025-01-23independentSource ↗
Phi 440%2025-01-23independentSource ↗
DeepSeek-V342.8%2025-01-10independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp42.1%2025-01-10independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus42.1%2025-01-10independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V3.142.1%2025-01-10independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V3 032444.2%2025-01-10independentSource ↗
DeepSeek V344.2%2025-01-10independentSource ↗
o147.6%2025-01-01independentSource ↗
Sonar Pro43.7%2024-12-25independentSource ↗
Ollama Llama 3.3 (Q4_K_M)43.6%2024-12-23independentSource ↗
Llama 3.3 70B42.1%2024-12-21independentSource ↗
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct43.9%2024-12-21independentSource ↗
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct42.1%2024-12-21independentSource ↗
o145.3%2024-12-20independentSource ↗
o1-pro47.6%2024-12-20independentSource ↗
Amazon Nova Pro42.9%2024-12-18independentSource ↗
Amazon Nova Lite39%2024-12-18independentSource ↗
Amazon Nova Pro 1.044.5%2024-12-18independentSource ↗
Amazon Nova Lite 1.041.3%2024-12-18independentSource ↗
Amazon Nova Micro 1.038%2024-12-18independentSource ↗
Amazon: Nova Lite 1.042.1%2024-12-18independentSource ↗
Amazon: Nova Micro 1.040%2024-12-18independentSource ↗
Amazon: Nova Pro 1.046%2024-12-18independentSource ↗
Command R7B (12-2024)40%2024-12-16independentSource ↗
QwQ-32B46.1%2024-12-13independentSource ↗
Solar Pro40.6%2024-12-05independentSource ↗
Krutrim Pro43.2%2024-12-05independentSource ↗
GPT-4o46%2024-12-05independentSource ↗
Upstage: Solar Pro 442.1%2024-12-05independentSource ↗
Jev46%2024-11-30independentSource ↗
Sonar Large42.1%2024-11-30independentSource ↗
Sonar42.1%2024-11-30independentSource ↗
TypeSafe: Jev Router40%2024-11-30independentSource ↗
Perplexity: Sonar42.1%2024-11-30independentSource ↗
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B42.4%2024-11-27independentSource ↗
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct42.1%2024-11-27independentSource ↗
Hunyuan-Large43.9%2024-11-20independentSource ↗
Claude 3.5 Haiku39.8%2024-11-19independentSource ↗
Claude 3 Opus23.5%2024-11-07independentSource ↗
Claude 3.5 Sonnet28.9%2024-11-07independentSource ↗
GPT-4o38.2%2024-11-07vendor-reportedSource ↗
o142.7%2024-11-07vendor-reportedSource ↗
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (v2)45.7%2024-11-06independentSource ↗
BharatGPT-14B42.2%2024-11-02independentSource ↗
Yi-Lightning43.2%2024-10-30independentSource ↗
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct44.6%2024-10-30independentSource ↗
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct42.1%2024-10-10independentSource ↗
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct42.1%2024-10-10independentSource ↗
Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct44.5%2024-10-04independentSource ↗
Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct40%2024-10-04independentSource ↗
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct42.1%2024-10-04independentSource ↗
Switchyard40%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Mistral Small 442.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
GPT Audio46%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
GPT Audio Mini44.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Devstral 2 251244.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Ministral 3 14B 251240%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Ministral 3 8B 251240%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Ministral 3 3B 251240%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Voxtral Small 24B 250742.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
gpt-oss-safeguard-20b42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image44.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 4.644.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Mistral Medium 3.144.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 4.5V44.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
gpt-oss-120b42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
gpt-oss-20b40%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Codestral 250842.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 4.544.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Z.ai: GLM 4.5 Air42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Hunyuan A13B Instruct42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Mistral Small 3.2 24B42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Gemini 2.5 Flash44.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Mistral Medium 344.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Llama Guard 4 12B40%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Llama 4 Maverick42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Llama 4 Scout42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Mistral Small 3.1 24B42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Gemma 3 4B40%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Gemma 3 12B40%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Gemma 3 27B42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Saba42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Mistral Small 340%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Mistral Nemo40%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Gemma 2 27B42.1%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct46%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
GPT-4 Turbo47.6%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
Mistral Large46%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)44.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct44.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k46%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
GPT-3.5 Turbo44.2%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
GPT-447.6%2024-09-30independentSource ↗
GLM-4-Plus42.1%2024-09-04independentSource ↗
Sarvam 2B (Sarvam-1)39.8%2024-08-29independentSource ↗
GPT-4o46%2024-08-21independentSource ↗
Command R (08-2024)42.1%2024-08-16independentSource ↗
Gemma 2 2B30.2%2024-08-15independentSource ↗
Mistral Large 241.2%2024-08-08independentSource ↗
Mistral Large 243.8%2024-08-08independentSource ↗
Mistral Large 3 251244.2%2024-08-08independentSource ↗
Llama 3.1 405B42.6%2024-08-07independentSource ↗
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct42.1%2024-08-07independentSource ↗
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct40%2024-08-07independentSource ↗
GPT-4o mini37.6%2024-08-02independentSource ↗
GPT-4o-mini42.1%2024-08-02independentSource ↗
GPT-4o-mini42.1%2024-08-02independentSource ↗
ERNIE 4.0 Turbo42.4%2024-07-13independentSource ↗
Gemma 2 27B40.8%2024-07-12independentSource ↗
Gemma 2 9B36.9%2024-07-12independentSource ↗
Nemotron-4-340B-Instruct43.9%2024-06-29independentSource ↗
Nemotron-4-340B-Reward44.7%2024-06-29independentSource ↗
Hanooman 7B41.1%2024-05-30independentSource ↗
Gemini 1.5 Flash36.9%2024-05-29independentSource ↗
GPT-4o46%2024-05-28independentSource ↗
GPT-4o47.6%2024-05-28independentSource ↗
Snowflake Arctic39.5%2024-05-09independentSource ↗
Reka Core41.3%2024-04-30independentSource ↗
WizardLM-2 8x22B42.6%2024-04-30independentSource ↗
Command R+38.5%2024-04-19independentSource ↗
DBRX Instruct40%2024-04-11independentSource ↗
Gemini 1.5 Pro40.3%2024-03-01independentSource ↗
Airavata 7B39%2024-02-09independentSource ↗
IndicTrans-240.6%2023-09-30independentSource ↗
Nemotron 3 Super42.1%2023-03-26independentSource ↗

Human Baseline & Difficulty Horizon

Calibrated human reference points, specialist benchmarks, and ceiling thresholds.
Measured Human Score94.4%Domain Expert Baseline
Baseline Protocol & Interpretation

Consensus agreement rate among independent third-party human fact-checkers on 4,326 factual queries.

Metric & Scoring Methodology

Verification protocols, aggregation formulas, and specialized metric variants.
Primary Metric:correct (accuracy over all questions, %)
Scoring Engine:llm-judge

Dataset & Compute Cost

Evaluation volume, public availability, API pricing, and local hardware requirements.
Total Dataset Size4,326Annotated evaluation items
Public Test SetPublicOpenly mirrored on repositories
Access GatingOpen AccessUnrestricted download
Evaluation LicenseOpen AccessDataset usage and redistribution terms
Frontier API Compute Cost:

$5 – $20 USD for full benchmark evaluation run on frontier APIs.

Recommended Local GPU Setup:

1x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB) or A100 (40GB/80GB) via vLLM / SGLang

Official Dataset & Benchmark Files:Download / View Dataset Repository ↗

How to Run & Reproduce

Standardized evaluation protocols, CLI commands, and reproducible runner templates.
Prompt Regimezero-shot
Reasoning Modedirect
Sampling Temp0
Pass@k Budgetk = 1
Tools & SandboxPure Text
Scoring Verifierllm-judge
Option AEleutherAI LM-Evaluation-Harness (Open-Weight Models)
lm_eval --model hf --model_args pretrained=<model_path> --tasks simpleqa --batch_size auto
Option BOpenCompass Evaluation Framework
opencompass --datasets simpleqa --models <model_config>
Python APIDeterministic Inference Loop Snippet
# Standard API Evaluation Loop
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
    temperature=0.0,
)
Standardized Reporting Requirement:

When publishing results for SimpleQA, always report the exact prompt template, few-shot exemplar ordering, sampling temperature (temperature=0), maximum reasoning budget tokens, and the precise timestamped model snapshot ID.

Contamination & Memorization Analysis

Audit of pretraining exposure risks, memorization vectors, and refresh policies.
Overall Contamination Risk:MEDIUM
Refresh Cadence:

Static fixed snapshot

Test Set Exposure:

Public on web / HuggingFace