CL-bench Life leaderboard
- GPT-5.5 leads
- 22.2%
- models measured
- 13
- lead over #2
- +0.5 pts
- median
- 13.2%
Leader on CL-bench Life · read October 21
On October 21, 2026, 13 of our catalog's models had a CL-bench Life result, and OpenAI GPT-5.5 led with 22.2%.
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Role in the index
We collect this benchmark and show it as supporting evidence. It is not part of the Vibe Coding Index, because it measures something other than coding and the index is about coding. Read the methodology
| # | Model | Result | Evidence | Coding index | Output $/Mtok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | 22.2% | 67.8 | $30.00 | |
| 2 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | 21.7% | 37.7 | $15.00 | |
| 3 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | 17.3% | 53.3 | $10.00 | |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | 17.0% | 66.9 | $25.00 | |
| 5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | 16.9% | 35.3 | $12.00 | |
| 6 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek | 13.5% | 35.3 | $1.9105 | |
| 7 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | 13.2% | 58.5 | $2.50 | |
| 8 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20Qwen | 12.4% | Not benchmarked | $1.80 | |
| 9 | Grok 4.20xAI | 11.9% | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 10 | GLM 4.7Z.ai | 10.9% | 33.6 | $1.98 | |
| 11 | DeepSeek V3.2 ExpDeepSeek | 9.5% | 55.0 | $0.41 | |
| 12 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | 7.4% | 54.4 | $0.42 | |
| 13 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | 6.3% | 59.4 | $0.95 |
Only models in our catalog are listed, and each appears once with its best published run. 197 rows were read from the source on October 21, 2026, and rows that match no catalog model are left out.