What is the best AI benchmark test?
Asked "What is the best AI benchmark test?", ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Perplexity named 20 distinct names across 5 answers on September 9, 2026, and 6 of them in two or more answers, and the engines did not agree; the closest to a consensus, SWE-bench, was named by only 3 of 5.
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6 of 20 names confirmed · named in 2 or more of 5 answers · asked September 9, 2026 · 5 engines
There is no single best AI benchmark test, as the best one depends on what capability you want to measure. Different benchmarks are suited for evaluating various aspects of AI, such as coding, reasoning, knowledge, and multimodal tasks.
- 1SWE-benchnamed in 3 of 5 answers
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- 2LiveBenchnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 3GPQA Diamondnamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 4LMSYS Chatbot Arenanamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 5SWE-bench Verifiednamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 6MMLU-Pronamed in 2 of 5 answers
- 7Humanity's Last Examnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 8SuperGLUEnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 9GPQA-Diamondnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 10GSM8Knamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 11ARC-AGI-2named in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 12FrontierMathnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 13HumanEvalnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 14AIMEnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 15MLU-Pronamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 16MMMU-Pronamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 17SimpleQAnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 18MMLUnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 19MMMUnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
- 20PerceptionBenchnamed in 1 of 5 answersone answer
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The full measurement
- The position each of the 5 engines gave all 20 names.
- How many of the 5 answers named each of them.
- 27 sampled observations behind this ranking, and where the engines disagree.
- Fan-out — the query each engine actually searched.
- Every citation, and the sources nobody cited.