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Agents' Last Exam v1.1

A benchmark for evaluating AI agents on long-horizon, economically valuable professional workflows with verifiable outcomes. v1.1 evaluates 122 public tasks across 55 sub-industries.
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At a glance

122

public tasks

55

sub-industries covered

13

industry groups

40+ 

academic institutions

Leaderboard

Rank ModelEffortHarnessPass Rate Score Runtime Output Tokens
1 Gemini 4 Carbon High ALE-Claw
45.9%
77.4%
156h 47m 10.2M
2 Kimi 3.1 Pro Max Kimi Code
43.4%
74.4%
61h 26m 8.5M
3 Opus 5.5 Max Claude Code
43.4%
71.6%
134h 17m 21.5M
4 GPT-6 Astra Codex
42.6%
73.1%
100h 13m 5.1M
5 GPT-6.1 Terra Max Codex
41.8%
69.8%
124h 36m 5.5M
6 Gemini 4 Argon High ALE-Claw
40.2%
69%
87h 4m 6.5M
7 Muse Wonder 1.0 High Muse Code
38.5%
68.4%
116h 27m 4.7M
8 Kimi K3 Max Kimi Code
35.2%
63%
107h 48m 7.5M
9 GPT-5.6 Sol Max Codex
30.3%
48.4%
78h 22m 3.1M
10 MiniMax M3.1 Flash Max Codex
29.5%
58.9%
117h 37m 17.4M
11 MiniMax M3.1 Flash Max Claude Code
29.5%
57.9%
122h 12m 18.1M
12 GLM 5.3 Max ZCode
26.2%
54.4%
111h 10m 17.4M
13 GPT-5.6 Luna Off Codex
5.7%
26.5%
40h 35m 1.1M

Key takeaways

Gemini 4 Carbon leads Agents' Last Exam v1.1 at 45.9% pass rate (77.4% score), ahead of Kimi 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 5.5 at 43.4% and GPT-6 Astra at 42.6%, followed by Gemini 4 Argon (40.2%) and Muse Wonder 1.0 (38.5%). Kimi 3.1 Pro edges out Opus 5.5 on score (74.4% vs 71.6%) with far fewer output tokens (8.5M vs 21.5M), while GPT-6 Astra reaches a 73.1% score with just 5.1M. Even the top result leaves more than half of the 122 tasks unsolved.

Pass rate vs output tokens

Efficiency frontier for this evaluation split. Up and to the left is better (higher pass rate at lower output-token spend). Several harness/model pairs reach the top of the split using a fraction of the tokens of others; some pairs spend an order of magnitude more tokens without a corresponding pass-rate gain.

Hover any dot for the harness, model, and exact metrics.

Best result by harness

Top pass rate each harness achieved on this evaluation split, regardless of which model it ran.

Codex
25%
ALE Claw
23%
OpenClaw
21.1%
Cursor CLI
20.7%
Droid
19.1%
Claude Code
15.8%
Gemini CLI
15.8%
Grok CLI
6.6%

Highest Pass Rate observed per harness on this split. Bars are not normalized for sample size; some harnesses were tested across many model variants, others on only one or two.

Industry coverage

Breakdown of the 122 v1.1 tasks by industry. View all tasks on GitHub →

  • Business & finance 19
  • Computing & math 19
  • Health & medicine 19
  • Engineering 16
  • Physical sciences 14
  • Life sciences 12
  • Visual media 11
  • Psychology & neuroscience 3
  • Education & information 2
  • Legal 2
  • Transport & safety 2
  • Other 2
  • Social sciences 1
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Motion & VFX

Animation and visual effects production tasks in Adobe After Effects.
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3D modeling

3D model creation and editing tasks in Siemens NX.
nathan-xu

Game development

Scene setup, asset placement, and rendering tasks in Unreal Engine.
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Mold flow analysis

Simulation and mold flow analysis tasks in Moldex3D manufacturing software.
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Architectural modeling

3D modeling and energy analysis workflows in Rhino 3D for urban design.
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Brain imaging

Neuroimaging analysis and brain structure segmentation tasks in FSLeyes.

Sample tasks

Example tasks from Agents' Last Exam. Each task ships with a sandboxed environment, a hidden reference, and a deterministic grader.

business_finance

sec_10k_financial_parsing

Parse a SEC 10-K filing into a structured financial schema. Multi-step extraction, table normalization, and cross-reference validation against the original document.

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business finance

american_option_pricing_ls
Implement a three-tier Monte Carlo option-pricing benchmark: Black-Scholes validation, a single-asset American put with Longstaff-Schwartz regression, and a 5-asset basket American put with pathwise Greeks.
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engineering
pcb_layout_kicad_1
Create a routed KiCad PCB layout from a staged schematic, with components placed, mounting holes added, and copper zones filled.
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Health medicine

healthcare_tcga_luad_survival_kras
Download public TCGA-LUAD data from GDC, build a KRAS-stratified survival cohort, and export Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards results.
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life sciences

WGS_Variant_Calling
Run a whole-genome sequencing variant-calling pipeline and produce VCF output. Scored on precision and recall against a held-out truth VCF.
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computing math

k8s_payment_api_root_cause_analysis
Diagnose a failing payment API in a Kubernetes cluster. Multi-hop investigation across logs, metrics, manifests, and traces, scored on the correct root-cause identification.
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visual media

video_storyboard_001
Build a shot-by-shot video storyboard from a brief, formatted to industry conventions. Graded on coverage, continuity, and adherence to the reference shot list.
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legal
legal_dr_fees_01
Compute legal fees from a billing register according to jurisdictional rules. Tests structured extraction plus rule-following against an authoritative reference total.
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Methodology

Metrics

Pass Rate — fraction of tasks the agent fully completed (strict success). Score — average graded outcome across all tasks, including partial credit. Both computed by deterministic graders against hidden references.

Verifiable Outcomes
Hidden references plus deterministic graders, not LLM-as-a-judge.
Rolling Evaluation

Every ~6 months, a new public subset releases with fresh instances. Private tasks rotate into the public pool, retired public tasks rotate out, and held-out private tasks score the official leaderboard, to limit benchmark leakage.

Reference Harnesses

Two open harnesses ship with the framework: the official Claude Code CLI and the in-tree OpenClaw harness. Submissions on the v1.1 leaderboard also include Codex, Kimi Code, Muse Code, ZCode, and the ALE-Claw reference harness.

Behind the benchmark

Agents’ Last Exam (ALE) measures agent performance on long-horizon, economically valuable tasks with verifiable outcomes. The benchmark covers non-physical industries defined with reference to O*NET / SOC 2018 (the U.S. federal occupational taxonomy), spanning 55 sub-industries.

ALE v1.1 ships 122 reference tasks across 55 sub-industries.

Acknowledgments

Agents’ Last Exam is co-led by UC Berkeley RDI and the RDI Foundation, with funding support and contributions from Snorkel AI via the Open Benchmarks Grants program.

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