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As of September 2, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 is #1 for HLE at 65%. Ranked by Humanity's Last Exam: 2,500 expert questions designed so search engines fail. Humanity's Last Exam leaderboard with HLE scores and API prices. Compare the hardest public reasoning exam across GPT, Claude, Gemini, and open models.

Updated September 2, 2026347 models36 providers

HLE vs price

117 models. Left is cheaper. Up is a higher score. The line is the best score you can buy at each price — a dot under it is a worse deal than something on the line.

Best score at each price#1 on this board


Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic · Proprietary	65%	—	—	$60.00
Claude Fable 5.1 Anthropic · Proprietary	65%	—	—	$60.00
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic · Proprietary	64.7%	—	92.9%	$30.00
Claude Mythos Preview Anthropic · Proprietary	64.7%	94.6%	—	$60.00
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic · Proprietary	64.5%	—	85.9%	$60.00
GLM-5.3OSS Z AI · Open Source	62.5%	—	—	$5.80
Muse Spark 1.1 Meta · Proprietary	62.1%	—	91.2%	$5.50
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813OSS DeepSeek · Open Source	60%	—	92.4%	$5.28
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic · Proprietary	57.9%	93.6%	85.3%	$30.00
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic · Proprietary	57.4%	—	80.3%	$12.00
GPT-5.5 Pro OpenAI · Proprietary	57.2%	—	—	$540.00
Kimi K3OSS Moonshot AI · Open Source	56%	93.5%	93.5%	$18.00
Seed 2.1 Pro ByteDance · Proprietary	55.7%	—	—	$5.34
GLM-5.3-FlashOSS Z AI · Open Source	55.3%	—	—	$0.65
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp DeepSeek · Proprietary	55.1%	—	—	$0.88
GLM-5.2OSS Z AI · Open Source	54.7%	91.2%	71.2%	$5.80
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic · Proprietary	54.7%	94.2%	86.4%	$30.00
Seed 2.1 Turbo ByteDance · Proprietary	54.6%	—	—	$3.00
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic · Proprietary	53.1%	91.3%	88.4%	$30.00
GLM-5.1OSS Z AI · Open Source	52.3%	86.2%	89.9%	$5.80
GPT-5.5 OpenAI · Proprietary	52.2%	93.6%	77.3%	$35.00
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google · Proprietary	51.4%	94.3%	94.4%	$17.50
Kimi K2-Thinking-0905OSS Moonshot AI · Open Source	51%	84.5%	—	$2.47
Kimi K2.5OSS Moonshot AI · Open Source	50.2%	87.6%	—	$3.68
Qwen3.5-27BOSS Qwen · Open Source	48.5%	85.5%	—	$2.70
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-MaxOSS DeepSeek · Open Source	48.2%	90.1%	89.7%	$5.22
Qwen3.5-122B-A10BOSS Qwen · Open Source	47.5%	86.6%	—	$3.60
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BOSS Qwen · Open Source	47.4%	84.2%	—	$2.25
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic · Proprietary	46.8%	89.9%	78.8%	$18.00
Gemini 3 Pro Google · Proprietary	45.8%	91.9%	91.9%	$14.00
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MaxOSS DeepSeek · Open Source	45.1%	88.1%	—	$0.42
Qwen3.8 MaxOSS Qwen · Open Source	43.6%	92.6%	92.7%	$8.00
Gemini 3 Flash Google · Proprietary	43.5%	90.4%	89.4%	$3.50
GLM-4.7OSS Z AI · Open Source	42.8%	85.7%	83.3%	$2.80
Qwen3.7 Max Qwen · Proprietary	41.4%	92.4%	90.9%	$5.00
DeepSeek-V3.2OSS DeepSeek · Open Source · via OpenRouter	40.8%	82.4%	—	$0.57
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0423OSS DeepSeek · Open Source	40.3%	87.4%	—	$0.30
Gemini 3.5 Flash Google · Proprietary	40.2%	—	88.9%	$10.50
Grok-4 xAI · Proprietary	40%	87.5%	87.5%	$18.00
GPT-5.4 OpenAI · Proprietary	39.8%	92.8%	89.4%	$17.50
ERNIE 5.0 Baidu · Proprietary	39%	85%	—	$7.00
Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)OSS NVIDIA · Open Source · via OpenRouter	37.4%	87%	86.1%	$2.70
GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI · Proprietary	36.6%	93.2%	—	$189.00
Kimi K2.6OSS Moonshot AI · Open Source	36.4%	90.5%	90.8%	$4.93
Qwen3.8-Flash-NextOSS Qwen · Open Source	35.9%	91.7%	—	$0.62
Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen · Proprietary	35.9%	91.7%	—	$0.62
Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen · Proprietary	34.7%	90.3%	87.9%	$1.60
GPT-5.2 OpenAI · Proprietary	34.5%	92.4%	73.2%	$15.75
MiMo-V2.5-ProOSS Xiaomi · Open Source	34%	66.7%	82.6%	$1.30
Inkling-SmallOSS Thinking Machines · Open Source · via Thinking Machines Lab	31.6%	89.5%	88.5%	$1.50

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All Large Language Models

347 models across 36 providers. Search or jump to a lab — every model page stays linked here.

Cursor

2 models

Composer 2 Composer 2 Fast

xAI

17 models

Grok 4.6 Grok 4.5 Grok 4.3 Grok-4.1 Grok-4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning Grok-4.1 Thinking Grok 4 Fast Grok Code Fast 1 Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning Grok-4 Fast Reasoning Grok-4 Grok-3 Grok-3 Mini Grok-2 Grok-1.5V Grok-1.5

MiniMax

7 models

MiniMax M3 MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax M2.1 MiniMax M2 MiniMax M1 40K MiniMax M1 80K

Qwen

55 models

Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Qwen3.8-27B Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Qwen3.8 Max Qwen3.7 Flash Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.6-27B Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen3.5-0.8B Qwen3.5-2B Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Qwen3.5-27B Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Qwen3 Max Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct Qwen3 VL 32B Thinking Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 Qwen3 235B A22B Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen3 32B Qwen2.5-Omni-7B QwQ-32B Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct Qwen3-Coder QvQ-72B-Preview QwQ-32B-Preview Qwen2.5 14B Instruct Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct Qwen2 72B Instruct Qwen2 7B Instruct

AI21 Labs

2 models

Jamba 1.5 Large Jamba 1.5 Mini

Amazon

7 models

Nova 2 Lite Nova 2 Omni Nova 2 Pro Nova 2 Sonic Nova Lite Nova Micro Nova Pro

Baidu

2 models

ERNIE 5.0 ERNIE 4.5

ByteDance

4 models

Seed 2.1 Pro Seed 2.1 Turbo Seed 2.0 Lite Seed 2.0 Pro

Cohere

4 models

North Micro Vision Instruct North Mini Code 1.0 Command A+Command R+

IBM

2 models

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Inception

1 models

Mercury 2

inclusionAI

1 models

Ling-3.0-flash

LG AI Research

1 models

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B

Liquid AI

2 models

LFM2.5-VL-3B LFM2.5-2.6B

Meituan

4 models

LongCat-Flash-Lite LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 LongCat-Flash-Thinking LongCat-Flash-Chat

Microsoft

9 models

MAI-Code-1.1-Flash MAI-Code-1-Flash MAI-Thinking-1 Phi 4 Mini Phi-4-multimodal-instruct Phi 4 Phi-3.5-mini-instruct Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Moonshot AI

11 models

Kimi K3 Kimi K2.7 Code Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed Kimi K2.6 Kimi K2.5 Kimi K2 0905 Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 Kimi K2 Base Kimi K2 Instruct Kimi-k1.5

Nous Research

1 models

Hermes 3 70B

NVIDIA

9 models

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B)Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)Nemotron Nano 9B v2 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

OpenBMB

1 models

MiniCPM-SALA

Poolside

2 models

Laguna S 2.1 Laguna XS 2.1

Sakana AI

1 models

Sakana Namazu

Sarvam AI

2 models

Sarvam-105B Sarvam-30B

StepFun

2 models

Step-3.5-Flash Step3-VL-10B

Tencent

1 models

Hy3

Thinking Machines

1 models

Inkling-Small

Unisound

1 models

Upstage

1 models

Solar Pro 4

Xiaomi

5 models

MiMo-V2.5-Pro MiMo-V2.5 MiMo-V2-Omni MiMo-V2-Pro MiMo-V2-Flash

Which model leads HLE right now?

As of September 2, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 by Anthropic is #1 for HLE at 65%. Ranked by Humanity's Last Exam: 2,500 expert questions designed so search engines fail. This board also tracks HLE, GPQA, GPQA Diamond, Humanity's Last Exam (With Tools). Next on the same board: Claude Mythos 5.1 and Claude Opus 5. Related leaders: GPT-5.6 Sol on GPQA at 94.6%; Gemini 3.7 Flash on GPQA Diamond at 94.8%. This hle leaderboard ranks models by HLE. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.

Sources: Humanity's Last Exam (https://agi.safe.ai/); OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)

Top 8 for hle. Ranked by Humanity's Last Exam: 2,500 expert questions designed so search engines fail. Input and output are dollars per million tokens.
Rank	Model	HLE	Input /M	Output /M
1	Claude Fable 5.1	65%	$10.00	$50.00
2	Claude Mythos 5.1	65%	$10.00	$50.00
3	Claude Opus 5	64.7%	$5.00	$25.00
4	Claude Mythos Preview	64.7%	$10.00	$50.00
5	Claude Fable 5	64.5%	$10.00	$50.00
6	GLM-5.3	62.5%	$1.40	$4.40
7	Muse Spark 1.1	62.1%	$1.25	$4.25
8	DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813	60%	$1.32	$3.96

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Individual benchmark pages

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HLE FAQ

Who ranks #1 on the HLE leaderboard?

As of September 2, 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 by Anthropic ranks #1 on HLE at 65%. API pricing is $10.00/M input and $50.00/M output.

What are the top models on HLE?

The current HLE ranking as of September 2, 2026 is 1. Claude Fable 5.1 at 65%; 2. Claude Mythos 5.1 at 65%; 3. Claude Opus 5 at 64.7%.

Which hle model is the cheapest?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is the cheapest scored model on this hle leaderboard at $0.05/M input and $0.20/M output ($0.25 blended). Claude Fable 5.1 still leads HLE at 65%.

Should I always pick the #1 HLE model?

Not automatically. Claude Fable 5.1 leads HLE, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh HLE against input/output price, context window, and related evals.

How often is the HLE leaderboard updated?

Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled September 2, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.

What is Humanity's Last Exam?

Humanity's Last Exam, or HLE, is a broad expert-level test from the Center for AI Safety. It is meant to stay hard after models saturate MMLU and GPQA.

What is a good HLE score?

Frontier models still sit well below human experts on the full exam. Compare models on this page rather than treating any single percentage as a pass mark.

Does HLE use tools?

Labs sometimes report HLE with tools and HLE without tools. We keep both columns when the score exists, plus GPQA as a second reasoning check.

HLE vs price

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All Large Language Models

OpenAI

Anthropic

Google

Cursor

xAI

DeepSeek

MiniMax

Qwen

AI21 Labs

Amazon

Baidu

ByteDance

Cohere

IBM

Inception

inclusionAI

LG AI Research

Liquid AI

Meituan

Meta

Microsoft

Mistral

Moonshot AI

Nous Research

NVIDIA

OpenBMB

Poolside

Sakana AI

Sarvam AI

StepFun

Tencent

Thinking Machines

Unisound

Upstage

Xiaomi

Z AI

Which model leads HLE right now?

Related LLM leaderboards

Individual benchmark pages

HLE FAQ

Who ranks #1 on the HLE leaderboard?

What are the top models on HLE?

Which hle model is the cheapest?

Should I always pick the #1 HLE model?

How often is the HLE leaderboard updated?

What is Humanity's Last Exam?

What is a good HLE score?

Does HLE use tools?