Who ranks #1 on the DeepResearch Bench leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic ranks #1 on DeepResearch Bench at 55.3%. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 is #1 for DeepResearch Bench at 55.3%. Ranked by the DeepResearch Bench score 20 models in this index have a published DeepResearch Bench score. DeepResearch Bench leaderboard: rank models by DeepResearch Bench next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic is #1 for DeepResearch Bench at 55.3%. Ranked by the DeepResearch Bench score This board also tracks DeepResearch Bench. Next on the same board: GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.6. This deepresearch bench leaderboard ranks models by DeepResearch Bench. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.
Sources: 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)
| Rank | Model | DeepResearch Bench | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 55.3% | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 2 | GPT-5 | 55.1% | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| 3 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 54.9% | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| 4 | GPT-5.5 | 54.0% | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 52.6% | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| 6 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 50.2% | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 7 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | 49.7% | $1.25 | $10.00 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.1 | 49.7% | $15.00 | $75.00 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic ranks #1 on DeepResearch Bench at 55.3%. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
The current DeepResearch Bench ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Claude Opus 4.6 at 55.3%; 2. GPT-5 at 55.1%; 3. Claude Sonnet 4.6 at 54.9%.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is the cheapest scored model on this deepresearch bench leaderboard at $0.25/M input and $1.50/M output ($1.75 blended). Claude Opus 4.6 still leads DeepResearch Bench at 55.3%.
Not automatically. Claude Opus 4.6 leads DeepResearch Bench, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh DeepResearch Bench against input/output price, context window, and related evals.
Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 20, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.
DeepResearch Bench is a public LLM eval (the DeepResearch Bench score). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the DeepResearch Bench leaderboard. Models are sorted by DeepResearch Bench, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.
Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published DeepResearch Bench score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.