τ²-Bench Telecom leaderboard
- GLM 5.2 leads
- 99.1%
- models measured
- 129
- lead over #2
- +0.3 pts
- median
- 71.1%
Leader on τ²-Bench Telecom · read October 21
On October 21, 2026, 129 of our catalog's models had a τ²-Bench Telecom result, and Z.ai GLM 5.2 led with 99.1%.
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| # | Model | Result | Evidence | Coding index | Output $/Mtok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GLM 5.2Z.ai | 99.1% | 57.7 | $7.00 | |
| 2 | GLM 4.7 FlashZ.ai | 98.8% | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 98.5% | 82.1 | $50.00 | |
| 4 | Step 3.7 FlashStepFun | 98.5% | Not benchmarked | $1.15 | |
| 5 | GLM 5 TurboZ.ai | 98.5% | Not benchmarked | $4.00 | |
| 6 | GLM 5V TurboZ.ai | 98.5% | 28.8 | $4.00 | |
| 7 | GLM 5Z.ai | 98.2% | 59.7 | $3.20 | |
| 8 | Qwen3.6 PlusQwen | 97.7% | 37.4 | $1.95 | |
| 9 | Grok 4.3xAI | 97.7% | 22.5 | $2.50 | |
| 10 | GLM 5.1Z.ai | 97.7% | 44.0 | $4.40 | |
| 11 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 95.9% | 58.5 | $2.50 | |
| 12 | Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI | 95.9% | 44.2 | $3.41 | |
| 13 | GLM 4.7Z.ai | 95.9% | 33.6 | $1.98 | |
| 14 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 95.6% | 35.3 | $12.00 | |
| 15 | Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle | 95.6% | 42.8 | $9.00 | |
| 16 | Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen | 95.6% | 28.6 | $2.34 | |
| 17 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | 95.3% | 59.4 | $0.95 | |
| 18 | Qwen3.6 35B A3BQwen | 95.3% | Not benchmarked | $0.95 | |
| 19 | Qwen3.7 MaxQwen | 94.7% | 45.1 | $4.425 | |
| 20 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | 94.4% | 66.0 | $25.00 | |
| 21 | Step 3.5 FlashStepFun | 94.4% | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 22 | Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI | 94.2% | 9.2 | $7.50 | |
| 23 | Qwen3.6 27BQwen | 94.2% | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 24 | MiMo-V2.5-ProXiaomi | 94.2% | 40.0 | $0.609 | |
| 25 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | 93.9% | 67.8 | $30.00 | |
| 26 | Qwen3.5-27BQwen | 93.9% | 22.6 | $2.16 | |
| 27 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10BQwen | 93.6% | 22.9 | $2.08 | |
| 28 | Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot AI | 93.0% | 63.4 | $2.50 | |
| 29 | Qwen3.7 PlusQwen | 93.0% | Not benchmarked | $1.28 | |
| 30 | Grok 4.20xAI | 93.0% | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 31 | Hy3 previewTencent | 92.7% | 22.4 | $0.60 | |
| 32 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 92.1% | 66.9 | $25.00 | |
| 33 | GPT-5.2-CodexOpenAI | 92.1% | 55.1 | $14.00 | |
| 34 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 90.6% | 54.4 | $0.42 | |
| 35 | MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi | 90.6% | 34.0 | $0.238 | |
| 36 | Trinity Large ThinkingArcee AI | 90.1% | 5.4 | $0.80 | |
| 37 | Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI | 90.1% | 39.1 | $3.35 | |
| 38 | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | 89.5% | 66.8 | $25.00 | |
| 39 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen | 89.2% | 7.7 | $1.00 | |
| 40 | MiniMax M3MiniMax | 88.9% | 57.8 | $1.20 | |
| 41 | Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic | 88.6% | 51.1 | $25.00 | |
| 42 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 87.1% | 37.7 | $15.00 | |
| 43 | MiniMax M2MiniMax | 86.8% | 45.3 | $1.02 | |
| 44 | Qwen3.5-9BQwen | 86.8% | Not benchmarked | $0.13 | |
| 45 | GPT-5OpenAI | 86.5% | 72.2 | $10.00 | |
| 46 | GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | 86.3% | 69.0 | $12.00 | |
| 47 | Solar Pro 3Upstage | 86.3% | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 48 | GPT-5.3-CodexOpenAI | 86.0% | 29.5 | $14.00 | |
| 49 | MiniMax M2.1MiniMax | 85.4% | Not benchmarked | $1.20 | |
| 50 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | 85.1% | 76.7 | $20.00 | |
| 51 | MiniMax M2.7MiniMax | 84.8% | 28.4 | $1.20 | |
| 52 | GPT-5.2OpenAI | 84.8% | 58.9 | $14.00 | |
| 53 | Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA | 83.3% | Not benchmarked | $2.40 | |
| 54 | GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI | 83.3% | 28.2 | $4.50 | |
| 55 | GPT-5.1-CodexOpenAI | 83.0% | 50.5 | $10.00 | |
| 56 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 81.9% | 53.3 | $10.00 | |
| 57 | Command ACohere | 80.7% | Not benchmarked | $10.00 | |
| 58 | o3OpenAI | 80.7% | 70.7 | $8.00 | |
| 59 | Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle | 80.4% | 75.8 | $3.00 | |
| 60 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | 79.5% | 57.8 | $15.00 | |
| 61 | Qwen3 Coder NextQwen | 79.5% | Not benchmarked | $0.80 | |
| 62 | GLM 4.6Z.ai | 76.9% | 52.2 | $2.20 | |
| 63 | GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI | 76.0% | Not benchmarked | $1.25 | |
| 64 | Kimi K2 0905Moonshot AI | 73.4% | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 65 | GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | 71.1% | 59.8 | $2.00 | |
| 66 | Mercury 2Inception | 70.8% | 0.0 | $0.75 | |
| 67 | Nemotron 3 SuperNVIDIA | 67.8% | Not benchmarked | $2.40 | |
| 68 | gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | 65.8% | 34.5 | $0.60 | |
| 69 | Gemma 4 31BGoogle | 65.5% | 38.3 | $0.40 | |
| 70 | GPT-5.1-Codex-MiniOpenAI | 62.9% | 6.2 | $2.00 | |
| 71 | o1OpenAI | 62.6% | 61.7 | $60.00 | |
| 72 | Kimi K2 0711Moonshot AI | 61.1% | 64.7 | $2.30 | |
| 73 | gpt-oss-20bOpenAI | 60.2% | Not benchmarked | $0.09 | |
| 74 | o4 MiniOpenAI | 55.6% | 68.6 | $4.40 | |
| 75 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | 54.1% | 37.0 | $10.00 | |
| 76 | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen | 54.1% | Not benchmarked | $1.90 | |
| 77 | Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Qwen | 53.2% | Not benchmarked | $0.55 | |
| 78 | GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI | 52.9% | 28.5 | $1.60 | |
| 79 | DeepSeek V3 0324DeepSeek | 47.1% | 42.0 | $1.14 | |
| 80 | GPT-4.1OpenAI | 47.1% | 46.5 | $8.00 | |
| 81 | GLM 4.5 AirZ.ai | 46.5% | Not benchmarked | $0.85 | |
| 82 | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle | 43.6% | 22.8 | $0.255 | |
| 83 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwen | 43.6% | 50.0 | $1.00 | |
| 84 | GLM 4.5Z.ai | 43.0% | 64.2 | $2.20 | |
| 85 | Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructQwen | 41.5% | Not benchmarked | $1.10 | |
| 86 | Mistral Small 4Mistral AI | 41.2% | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 87 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BNVIDIA | 40.9% | Not benchmarked | $0.24 | |
| 88 | Mistral Medium 3.1Mistral AI | 40.6% | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 89 | Nova Premier 1.0Amazon | 38.3% | Not benchmarked | $12.50 | |
| 90 | DeepSeek V3.1 TerminusDeepSeek | 37.1% | Not benchmarked | $1.00 | |
| 91 | R1 0528DeepSeek | 36.5% | 71.4 | $2.15 | |
| 92 | GPT-5 NanoOpenAI | 36.5% | 34.8 | $0.40 | |
| 93 | Qwen3 14BQwen | 34.5% | Not benchmarked | $0.24 | |
| 94 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B InstructQwen | 34.5% | 60.4 | $0.28 | |
| 95 | Qwen2.5 72B InstructQwen | 34.5% | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 96 | DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 33.9% | 55.0 | $0.41 | |
| 97 | Mistral Large 2407Mistral AI | 33.0% | Not benchmarked | $6.00 | |
| 98 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | 31.6% | 28.7 | $2.50 | |
| 99 | GLM 4.6VZ.ai | 31.6% | Not benchmarked | $0.90 | |
| 100 | Gemini 3.1 Flash LiteGoogle | 31.3% | Not benchmarked | $1.50 | |
| 101 | o3 MiniOpenAI | 31.3% | 52.1 | $4.40 | |
| 102 | Qwen3 32BQwen | 29.8% | 40.0 | $0.28 | |
| 103 | Qwen3 VL 8B InstructQwen | 29.2% | Not benchmarked | $0.75 | |
| 104 | GPT-4o (2024-08-06)OpenAI | 28.9% | 23.1 | $10.00 | |
| 105 | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Qwen | 28.1% | Not benchmarked | $0.30 | |
| 106 | Llama 3.3 70B InstructMeta Llama | 26.6% | Not benchmarked | $0.32 | |
| 107 | Qwen3 30B A3BQwen | 26.0% | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 108 | GPT-4oOpenAI | 25.1% | 38.8 | $10.00 | |
| 109 | Mistral Medium 3Mistral AI | 24.3% | Not benchmarked | $2.00 | |
| 110 | GLM 4.5VZ.ai | 22.5% | Not benchmarked | $1.80 | |
| 111 | Llama 3.2 3B InstructMeta Llama | 21.1% | Not benchmarked | $0.335 | |
| 112 | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructQwen | 19.9% | Not benchmarked | $0.60 | |
| 113 | Mistral Small 3Mistral AI | 19.6% | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 114 | Gemini 2.5 Flash LiteGoogle | 19.0% | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 115 | Llama 4 MaverickMeta Llama | 17.8% | 18.1 | $0.6525 | |
| 116 | Nova Lite 1.0Amazon | 17.5% | Not benchmarked | $0.24 | |
| 117 | GPT-4.1 NanoOpenAI | 17.3% | 8.9 | $0.40 | |
| 118 | Llama 3.1 8B InstructMeta Llama | 16.4% | Not benchmarked | $0.08 | |
| 119 | Llama 4 ScoutMeta Llama | 15.5% | 9.1 | $0.30 | |
| 120 | Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta Llama | 15.2% | Not benchmarked | $0.40 | |
| 121 | Nova Micro 1.0Amazon | 14.0% | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 122 | Nova Pro 1.0Amazon | 14.0% | Not benchmarked | $3.20 | |
| 123 | Granite 4.0 MicroIBM Granite | 12.6% | Not benchmarked | $0.112 | |
| 124 | Gemma 3 12BGoogle | 10.8% | Not benchmarked | $0.15 | |
| 125 | Gemma 3 27BGoogle | 10.5% | 4.9 | $0.35 | |
| 126 | Gemma 3 4BGoogle | 5.0% | Not benchmarked | $0.05 | |
| 127 | Llama 3.2 1B InstructMeta Llama | 0.0% | Not benchmarked | $0.201 | |
| 128 | Phi 4Microsoft | 0.0% | Not benchmarked | $0.14 | |
| 129 | Reka Flash 3Reka | 0.0% | Not benchmarked | $0.20 |
Only models in our catalog are listed, and each appears once with its best published run. 195 rows were read from the source on October 21, 2026, and rows that match no catalog model are left out.