AI benchmarks

General

• Models Table (lifearchitect.ai)
• Artificial Analysis
• Epoch AI
  • Notable AI models
  • AI benchmarking dashboard

Lists of Benchmarks

• 2025-05: Lisan al Gaib: The Ultimate LLM Benchmark list
  • Average across 28 benchmarks

Analysis of Methods

• 2025-04: The Leaderboard Illusion

Methods

• AidanBench: Evaluating Novel Idea Generation on Open-Ended Questions (code)
  • Leaderboard
  • Suggestion to use Borda count
  • 2025-04: add Quasar Alpha, Optimus Alpha, Llama-4 Scout and Llama-4 Maverick
• ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning. Assess reasoning using puzzles of tunable complexity.
• 2025-08: Reinforcement Learning with Rubric Anchors (model)

Task Length

• 2020-09: Ajeya Cotra: Draft report on AI timelines
• 2025-03: Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks

Assess Specific Attributes

Various

• LMSYS: Human preference ranking leaderboard
• Tracking AI: "IQ" leaderboard
• LiveBench: A Challenging, Contamination-Free LLM Benchmark
• LLM Thematic Generalization Benchmark

Hallucination

• Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard
• LLM Confabulation (Hallucination) Leaderboard for RAG
• 2025-09: OpenAI: Why Language Models Hallucinate

Software/Coding

• 2025-02: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering? (code)

Math

• AIME Benchmark

Science

See Science Agents > Science Benchmarks

Visual

• 2024-06: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs (preprint, leaderboard)
• 2025-03: Can Large Vision Language Models Read Maps Like a Human? MapBench

Conversation

• 2025-01: MultiChallenge: A Realistic Multi-Turn Conversation Evaluation Benchmark Challenging to Frontier LLMs (project, code, leaderboard)

Creativity

• See also: [AI creativity]
• 2024-10: AI as Humanity's Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text
• 2024-11: AidanBench: Evaluating Novel Idea Generation on Open-Ended Questions (code)
• 2024-12: LiveIdeaBench: Evaluating LLMs' Scientific Creativity and Idea Generation with Minimal Context
• LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark

Reasoning

• ENIGMAEVAL: "reasoning" leaderboard (paper)
• Sober Reasoning Leaderboard
  • 2025-04: A Sober Look at Progress in Language Model Reasoning: Pitfalls and Paths to Reproducibility

Assistant/Agentic

See: AI Agents: Optimization

• GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants
• Galileo AI Agent Leaderboard
• Smolagents LLM Leaderboard: LLMs powering agents
• OpenAI PaperBench: Evaluating AI’s Ability to Replicate AI Research (paper, code)
• 2025-06: The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements
• HAL: Holistic Agent Leaderboard The standardized, cost-aware, and third-party leaderboard for evaluating agents

Science

See: Science Benchmarks