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
26 Gemma4-12B
Google
55.3%
— Report Verified
27 LFM3-1.7B
LiquidAI
52.83%
— Report Verified
28 Gemma4-E4B
Google
34.7%
— Report Verified
29 Qwen3.5-2B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
25.6%
— Report Verified
30 Spark-X2.5-1.7B
SparkLLM (XHToken)
24.3%
— Report Verified
31 granite-4.2-3B
IBM
24.3%
— Report Verified
32 Gemma4-E2B
Google
18.3%
— Report Verified
33 Nemotron-3-Nano-4B
NVIDIA
17.3%
— Report Verified
34 LFM2.5-2.6B
LiquidAI
5.3%
— Report Verified
35 LFM2.5-8B-A1B
LiquidAI
0%
— Report Verified
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