Long Context Benchmark

AA-LCR

AA-LCR - Artificial Analysis Long Context Retrieval benchmark.

Category

Long Context

Score type

percent

Scale

100%

higher is better

Models tested

35

What is AA-LCR?

AA-LCR (Long Context Retrieval) tests whether a model actually retrieves information from very long documents. Relevant passages are hidden across documents of hundreds of thousands of tokens and the model must reliably find and combine them.

What does it test?

AA-LCR measures reading and reasoning over very long inputs. In detail, it checks:

  • retrieval accuracy in documents of extreme length
  • several hidden 'needles' that have to be found simultaneously
  • resistance to being distracted by irrelevant filler material
  • robustness close to the model's context window limit

How to read the score

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better.

Frequently asked questions

What is the AA-LCR benchmark?

AA-LCR (Long Context Retrieval) tests whether a model actually retrieves information from very long documents. Relevant passages are hidden across documents of hundreds of thousands of tokens and the model must reliably find and combine them.

What does AA-LCR test?

AA-LCR mainly measures reading and reasoning over very long inputs. Concretely, it checks: retrieval accuracy in documents of extreme length; several hidden 'needles' that have to be found simultaneously; resistance to being distracted by irrelevant filler material.

How is the AA-LCR score calculated?

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better. The declared maximum score of this benchmark is 100.0.

Where do I get AA-LCR data and scores?

The official benchmark page/reference is linked on this page. Every score on Open LLM Radar is also available as open data: download the scores JSON (http://open-llm-radar-api:8000/api/v1/benchmarks/aa-lcr/scores) or pull it directly from the Open LLM Radar API with any HTTP client.

Model scores 35 models tested

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# Model Score Date Source Verified
1 Nanbeige4.3-33B
Nanbeige
84%
24.10.2026 Report Verified
2 Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B
Meta Superintelligence Lab
80.7%
— Report Unverified
3 Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
80.3%
21.10.2026 Report Unverified
4 Muse-Glimmer-30B
Meta Superintelligence Lab
80%
01.08.2026 Meta Superintelligence Lab (official model card); KRAFTON re-eval (Raon-1-mini-preview card, gpt-5.6-luna harness): 81.3 Verified
5 Ripple-65B Preview
Ricursive Intelligence
75%
— Report Verified
6 Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
74.7%
18.08.2026 Report Verified
7 Qwen3.6-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
73.3%
01.08.2026 Meta Superintelligence Lab (official model card) Unverified
8 Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
70.2%
04.06.2026 Report Unverified
9 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
69.3%
21.10.2026 Report Unverified
10 Kolibri-1
Aleph Alpha
68.3%
03.10.2026 Report Verified
11 Gemma4-31B-it
Google
68.3%
01.08.2026 Meta Superintelligence Lab (official model card) Unverified
12 DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
67.3%
04.06.2026 Report Unverified
13 Raon-1 mini
KRAFTON AI
67.3%
21.10.2026 Report Verified
14 Gemma4-26B-A4B
Google
67%
21.10.2026 Report Unverified
15 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
66.9%
01.02.2026 Report Verified
16 Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
66.1%
01.02.2026 Report Unverified
17 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16
NVIDIA
65.4%
04.06.2026 Report Verified
18 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB
NVIDIA
64.06%
15.10.2026 Report Verified
19 DeepSeek-V4-Flash
DeepSeek
62.7%
04.06.2026 Report Unverified
20 Xing4.0-29B-A4B
China Telecom AI
61%
16.09.2026 Report Verified
21 Qwen3-235B-A22B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
60%
01.02.2026 Report Unverified
22 MiniCPM5-2B
OpenBMB
59%
— Report Verified
23 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
58.5%
01.02.2026 Report Unverified
24 Qwen3.5-4B
Qwen
57%
01.02.2026 Report Verified
25 Spark-X2.5-4B
SparkLLM (XHToken)
56.3%
— Report Verified
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