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SEAL Leaderboard - LLMs

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1

gpt-5-chat

gpt-5-chat
11212
1087.57
-4.38 +6.03
1

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
9400
1082.08
-4.57 +5.68
2

qwen3-235b-a22b-2507-v1

qwen3-235b-a22b-2507-v1
9100
1076.77
-3.67 +4.13
3

claude-opus-4-1-20250805

claude-opus-4-1-20250805
12282
1072.51
-5.25 +4.57
5

claude-sonnet-4-20250514

claude-sonnet-4-20250514
16947
1063.25
-4.2 +3.72
5

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 (Thinking)

claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 (Thinking)
9101
1058.47
-3.7 +5.23
5

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
4027
1055.31
-7.14 +6.67
7

gemini-3-pro-preview

gemini-3-pro-preview
5302
1042.65
-6.55 +6.76
8

claude-opus-4-1-20250805 (Thinking)

claude-opus-4-1-20250805 (Thinking)
10617
1042.63
-4.79 +5.23
8

gemini-2.5-pro

gemini-2.5-pro
7080
1036.50
-6.32 +6.18
9

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 (Thinking)

claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 (Thinking)
3875
1031.01
-6.9 +6.81
10

claude-sonnet-4-20250514 (Thinking)

claude-sonnet-4-20250514 (Thinking)
13829
1028.26
-3.25 +3.4
13

o3-2025-04-16-medium

o3-2025-04-16-medium*
17747
1015.69
-3.18 +3.79
13

gemini-2.5-flash

gemini-2.5-flash
7477
1011.01
-5.78 +6.22
15

llama4-maverick-instruct-basic

llama4-maverick-instruct-basic
12425
1000.00
-5.25 +5.04
16

o4-mini-2025-04-16-medium

o4-mini-2025-04-16-medium*
17534
985.55
-3.46 +4.31
17

deepseek-r1-0528

deepseek-r1-0528
7039
961.23
-6.32 +7.14
18

gpt-5-2025-08-07-medium

gpt-5-2025-08-07-medium*
14112
945.21
-3.34 +4.64
* This model’s API does not consistently return Markdown-formatted responses. Since raw outputs are used in head-to-head comparisons, this may affect its ranking.

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