Humanity's Last Exam
HLE - Humanity's Last Exam - extremely difficult expert-level questions across domains.
Category
STEM & Reasoning
Score type
percent
Scale
100%
higher is better
Models tested
50
What is Humanity's Last Exam?
Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a question set of over 2,500 expert questions from about a hundred domains, designed to be the very edge of human knowledge — created specifically because frontier models had become too good at all existing benchmarks. The score reflects the accuracy of the final answer.
What does it test?
Humanity's Last Exam measures hard reasoning in science, technology, engineering and math. In detail, it checks:
- extremely difficult interdisciplinary questions
- genuine expert reasoning instead of pattern matching
- compositional thinking across several fields
- accuracy even when guessing would be plausible
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 Humanity's Last Exam benchmark?
Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a question set of over 2,500 expert questions from about a hundred domains, designed to be the very edge of human knowledge — created specifically because frontier models had become too good at all existing benchmarks. The score reflects the accuracy of the final answer.
What does Humanity's Last Exam test?
Humanity's Last Exam mainly measures hard reasoning in science, technology, engineering and math. Concretely, it checks: extremely difficult interdisciplinary questions; genuine expert reasoning instead of pattern matching; compositional thinking across several fields.
How is the Humanity's Last Exam 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 Humanity's Last Exam data and scores?
The official source is https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/humanitys-last-exam. 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/humanitys-last-exam/scores) or pull it directly from the Open LLM Radar API with any HTTP client.
Benchmark data & downloads
Where to get, inspect and reuse the data behind this benchmark.
Official benchmark page / paper
The benchmark maintainer's website, paper or leaderboard
Benchmark dataset
The question/task data itself — download and evaluate locally
Benchmark metadata (JSON)
This page's benchmark record from the Open LLM Radar API
All model scores (JSON download)
Full score table as JSON; paginate with limit/offset params
Open LLM Radar API docs
Swagger UI to explore and reuse all radar API endpoints
Model scores 50 models tested
| # | Model | Score | Date | Source | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Kimi K3.1 Pro
Moonshot AI
|
51.1%
|
07.11.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 2 |
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
Qwen
|
43.6%
|
18.08.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 3 |
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
|
43.5%
|
13.08.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 4 |
Hy4 preview
Tencent
|
43.4%
|
28.08.2026 | Tencent Hy4 preview model card benchmark appendix (https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy4-preview#benchmark-appendix) | Verified |
| 5 |
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
MiniMaxAI
|
43.4%
|
19.10.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 6 |
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
DeepSeek
|
42.7%
|
13.08.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 7 |
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
DeepSeek
|
42.6%
|
17.10.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 8 |
GLM-5.3
Zhipu AI
|
42.3%
|
28.08.2026 | Tencent Hy4 preview model card benchmark appendix (https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy4-preview#benchmark-appendix) | Verified |
| 9 |
GLM-5.2
Zhipu AI
|
40.5%
|
17.06.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 10 |
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
DeepSeek
|
37.8%
|
13.08.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 11 |
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
|
37.7%
|
04.06.2026 | Report | Unverified |
| 12 |
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
|
37.7%
|
26.06.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 13 |
MiniMax-M3
MiniMaxAI
|
37%
|
17.06.2026 | Report | Unverified |
| 14 |
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
DeepSeek
|
36.8%
|
10.09.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 15 |
Kimi K2.6
Moonshot AI
|
34.8%
|
04.06.2026 | Report | Unverified |
| 16 |
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
DeepSeek
|
34.8%
|
26.06.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 17 |
Hy3
Tencent
|
34.4%
|
28.08.2026 | Tencent Hy4 preview model card benchmark appendix (https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy4-preview#benchmark-appendix) | Verified |
| 18 |
Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
|
30.8%
|
18.08.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 19 |
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI
|
30.1%
|
23.08.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 20 |
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16
NVIDIA
|
26.7%
|
04.06.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 21 |
Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B
Ornith AI
|
25.6%
|
19.08.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 22 |
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
|
25.3%
|
01.02.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 23 |
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB
NVIDIA
|
25.3%
|
15.10.2026 | Report | Verified |
| 24 |
Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
|
24.3%
|
16.04.2026 | Qwen Team (official model card - comparison) | Unverified |
| 25 |
Qwen3.6-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
|
24%
|
22.04.2026 | Qwen Team (official model card) | Verified |