Who ranks #1 on the HLE leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic ranks #1 on HLE at 64.7%. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 is #1 for HLE at 64.7%. Ranked by Humanity's Last Exam: 2,500 expert questions designed so search engines fail. 104 models in this index have a published HLE score. Methodology: Humanity's Last Exam (https://agi.safe.ai/). HLE leaderboard with live API prices. Humanity's Last Exam — an extremely difficult benchmark of expert-level questions across all academic disciplines. Official methodology: Humanity's Last Exam (https://agi.safe.ai/).
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic is #1 for HLE at 64.7%. Ranked by Humanity's Last Exam: 2,500 expert questions designed so search engines fail. This board also tracks HLE. Next on the same board: Claude Mythos Preview and Claude Fable 5. 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)
| Rank | Model | HLE | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5 | 64.7% | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 2 | Claude Mythos Preview | 64.7% | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5 | 64.5% | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| 4 | GLM-5.3 | 62.5% | $1.40 | $4.40 |
| 5 | Muse Spark 1.1 | 62.1% | $1.25 | $4.25 |
| 6 | DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 | 60% | $1.32 | $3.96 |
| 7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 57.9% | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| 8 | Claude Sonnet 5 | 57.4% | $2.00 | $10.00 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Claude Opus 5 by Anthropic ranks #1 on HLE at 64.7%. API pricing is $5.00/M input and $25.00/M output.
The current HLE ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Claude Opus 5 at 64.7%; 2. Claude Mythos Preview at 64.7%; 3. Claude Fable 5 at 64.5%.
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 Opus 5 still leads HLE at 64.7%.
Not automatically. Claude Opus 5 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.
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.
Humanity's Last Exam — an extremely difficult benchmark of expert-level questions across all academic disciplines. This page ranks models that have published a HLE score, with live API token prices on the same row. Official methodology: Humanity's Last Exam (https://agi.safe.ai/).
This page is the HLE leaderboard. Models are sorted by HLE, 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.
The official Humanity's Last Exam page owns the methodology. This page keeps the published HLE score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number. Source: https://agi.safe.ai/