Xiangqi

Standard Xiangqi, given as FEN. Pikafish scores every legal move by expected score; the answer is from and to squares. 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
102030405060708090100$0.001$0.01$0.1$1Claude Haiku 5.5 High · 0.0% · <$0.01Claude Opus 5.5 High · 55.0% · $0.07DeepSeek V4.1 Flash High · 33.3% · $0.04GLM-5.3 Flash High · 55.0% · $0.01 · Pareto frontierGPT-6 Luna High · 21.9% · <$0.01 · Pareto frontierGPT-6.1 Sol High · 88.3% · $0.10 · Pareto frontierMuse Spark 1.3 High · 33.3% · $0.11GPT-6.1 Sol HighGLM-5.3 Flash HighClaude Opus 5.5 HighDeepSeek V4.1 Flash HighMuse Spark 1.3 HighGPT-6 Luna HighClaude Haiku 5.5 High
  • Pareto frontier: nothing plotted is both cheaper and better
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • DeepSeek
  • Z.ai
  • Meta

Horizontal axis is logarithmic.

Table

ModelQualityLegalityCostn
SolHigh88.3100.0$0.103
Opus 5.5High55.0100.0$0.073
GLM-5.3 FlashHigh55.066.7$0.013
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashHigh33.3100.0$0.043
Muse Spark 1.3High33.366.7$0.113
LunaHigh21.9100.0<$0.013
Haiku 5.5High0.0100.0<$0.013

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

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