STEM & Reasoning Benchmark

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.

Model scores 50 models tested

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# Model Score Date Source Verified
26 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
22.4%
16.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card - comparison) Unverified
27 Muse-Glimmer-30B
Meta Superintelligence Lab
22%
01.08.2026 Meta Superintelligence Lab (official model card) Verified
28 Kolibri-1
Aleph Alpha
21.5%
03.10.2026 Report Verified
29 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
21.4%
16.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card) Verified
30 Ornith-1.0-35B-A3B
Ornith AI
20.8%
19.08.2026 Report Unverified
31 Gemma4-31B-it
Google
19.5%
16.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card - comparison) Unverified
32 Gemma-4-31B
Google
19.5%
19.08.2026 Report Unverified
33 Qwen3-235B-A22B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
18.2%
01.02.2026 Report Unverified
34 GPT-OSS-120B
OpenAI
14.9%
08.08.2025 Report Verified
35 Gemma4-12B
Google
13.1%
02.07.2026 Report Verified
36 Spark-X2.5-4B
SparkLLM (XHToken)
12.3%
— Report Verified
37 GPT-OSS-20B
OpenAI
10.9%
05.08.2025 Report Verified
38 MiniCPM5-2B
OpenBMB
8.9%
— Report Verified
39 Gemma4-26B-A4B
Google
8.7%
16.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card - comparison) Unverified
40 Qwen3.5-4B
Qwen
8.6%
— Report Verified
41 LFM2.5-24B-A2B
LiquidAI
7.4%
13.10.2026 Report Verified
42 LFM3-1.7B
LiquidAI
7.17%
— Report Verified
43 LFM2.5-8B-A1B
LiquidAI
6.9%
— Report Verified
44 granite-4.2-3B
IBM
6.6%
— Report Verified
45 Spark-X2.5-1.7B
SparkLLM (XHToken)
6.3%
— Report Verified
46 LFM2.5-2.6B
LiquidAI
6.2%
— Report Verified
47 Nemotron-3-Nano-4B
NVIDIA
4.9%
— Report Verified
48 Gemma4-E4B
Google
3.9%
— Report Verified
49 Gemma4-E2B
Google
2.5%
— Report Verified
50 Qwen3.5-2B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
2.1%
— Report Verified
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