Chess

Standard chess, given as FEN. Stockfish 19 scores every legal move by expected score; the answer is a UCI move. See Methodology.

Quality is the mean oracle score of the moves played, × 100. The best move scores 100; an illegal move or no move scores 0. Protocol boardbench-0.2.

Quality vs cost

7 of 7 models
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • DeepSeek
  • Z.ai
  • Meta
1020304050$0.001$0.01$0.1$1Claude Haiku 5.5 High · 0.0% · <$0.01 · Pareto frontierClaude Opus 5.5 High · 33.3% · $0.08DeepSeek V4.1 Flash High · 33.3% · $0.04GLM-5.3 Flash High · 33.3% · $0.01 · Pareto frontierGPT-6 Luna High · 0.0% · <$0.01GPT-6.1 Sol High · 33.3% · $0.10Muse Spark 1.3 High · 0.0% · $0.11GLM-5.3 Flash HighDeepSeek V4.1 Flash HighClaude Opus 5.5 HighGPT-6.1 Sol HighClaude Haiku 5.5 HighGPT-6 Luna HighMuse Spark 1.3 High
  • Pareto frontier: nothing plotted is both cheaper and better
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • DeepSeek
  • Z.ai
  • Meta

Horizontal axis is logarithmic.

Table

ModelQualityLegalityCostn
Opus 5.5High33.3100.0$0.083
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashHigh33.3100.0$0.043
GLM-5.3 FlashHigh33.3100.0$0.013
SolHigh33.3100.0$0.103
Haiku 5.5High0.066.7<$0.013
LunaHigh0.0100.0<$0.013
Muse Spark 1.3High0.033.3$0.113

Headline is the mean move score × 100. n is answers: puzzles × samples.

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