Vending-Bench 2 leaderboard
- GPT-6 Astra leads
- $15,515
- models measured
- 60
- lead over #2
- +$1086.85
- median
- $5,088
Leader on Vending-Bench 2 · read October 22
On October 22, 2026, 60 of our catalog's models had a Vending-Bench 2 result, and OpenAI GPT-6 Astra led with $15,515, ahead of OpenAI GPT-6 Sol at $14,428.
An agent runs a simulated vending machine business over a long stretch of simulated time: stocking, pricing, emailing suppliers. The number is the money it ends with, in US dollars, as Andon Labs runs it and Epoch AI collects it. One harness for every model.
Role in the index
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| # | Model | Result | Evidence | Coding index | Output $/Mtok |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | $15,515 | 85.1 | $50.00 | |
| 2 | GPT-6 SolOpenAI | $14,428 | 76.0 | $10.00 | |
| 3 | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | $13,718 | 81.0 | $10.00 | |
| 4 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | $11,182 | 83.0 | $25.00 | |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | $11,165 | 87.3 | $10.00 | |
| 6 | Claude Opus 4.7Anthropic | $10,937 | 67.5 | $25.00 | |
| 7 | Grok 4.7xAI | $10,537 | 66.7 | $6.00 | |
| 8 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | $9,619 | 73.5 | $20.00 | |
| 9 | Muse WonderMeta | $9,432 | 71.9 | $20.00 | |
| 10 | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $9,235 | 88.8 | $20.00 | |
| 11 | Grok 4.6xAI | $9,047 | 65.7 | $6.00 | |
| 12 | GLM 5.2Z.ai | $8,314 | 61.1 | $4.40 | |
| 13 | GLM 5.3Z.ai | $8,164 | 70.6 | $4.40 | |
| 14 | Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic | $8,018 | 57.2 | $25.00 | |
| 15 | GPT-5.5OpenAI | $7,524 | 71.3 | $30.00 | |
| 16 | GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI | $7,343 | 63.9 | $12.00 | |
| 17 | Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic | $7,204 | 57.3 | $15.00 | |
| 18 | Muse Spark 1.1Meta | $6,520 | 70.3 | $4.25 | |
| 19 | Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | $6,378 | 57.7 | $10.00 | |
| 20 | Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI | $6,205 | 52.1 | $4.00 | |
| 21 | GPT-5.4OpenAI | $6,144 | 64.4 | $15.00 | |
| 22 | GPT-5.3-CodexOpenAI | $5,940 | 60.0 | $14.00 | |
| 23 | Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic | $5,787 | 65.0 | $25.00 | |
| 24 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | $5,680 | 79.3 | $50.00 | |
| 25 | GLM 5.1Z.ai | $5,634 | 49.2 | $4.40 | |
| 26 | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | $5,422 | 84.2 | $50.00 | |
| 27 | Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle | $5,396 | 39.8 | $9.00 | |
| 28 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI | $5,165 | 62.3 | $15.00 | |
| 29 | Qwen3.6 PlusQwen | $5,115 | 44.1 | $1.95 | |
| 30 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | $5,094 | 61.6 | $3.75 | |
| 31 | Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI | $5,083 | 53.4 | $4.00 | |
| 32 | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | $4,967 | 44.0 | $25.00 | |
| 33 | Grok 4.20xAI | $4,663 | 33.3 | $2.50 | |
| 34 | GLM 5Z.ai | $4,432 | 41.7 | $3.20 | |
| 35 | GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI | $4,095 | 58.0 | $1.20 | |
| 36 | Grok 4.5xAI | $3,887 | 58.6 | $6.00 | |
| 37 | Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | $3,839 | 39.5 | $15.00 | |
| 38 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Custom ToolsGoogle | $3,774 | Not benchmarked | $12.00 | |
| 39 | Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle | $3,635 | 43.7 | $3.00 | |
| 40 | Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $3,602 | 70.7 | $0.50 | |
| 41 | GPT-5.2OpenAI | $3,591 | 55.9 | $14.00 | |
| 42 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423DeepSeek | $3,285 | 38.7 | $2.976 | |
| 43 | GLM 4.7Z.ai | $2,377 | 55.1 | $2.20 | |
| 44 | MiniMax M3MiniMax | $2,158 | 39.2 | $1.20 | |
| 45 | GPT-5.1OpenAI | $1,473 | 40.4 | $10.00 | |
| 46 | Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI | $1,198 | 38.6 | $2.85 | |
| 47 | DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek | $1,034 | 30.0 | $0.88 | |
| 48 | Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGoogle | $911 | 32.3 | $12.00 | |
| 49 | Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | $574 | 19.1 | $10.00 | |
| 50 | Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | $549 | Not benchmarked | $2.50 | |
| 51 | Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen | $463 | Not benchmarked | $1.30 | |
| 52 | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | $459 | 35.6 | $5.00 | |
| 53 | Qwen3.5-27BQwen | $202 | Not benchmarked | $1.56 | |
| 54 | MiniMax M2MiniMax | $161 | Not benchmarked | $1.02 | |
| 55 | Grok 4.3xAI | $35 | 37.4 | $2.50 | |
| 56 | Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20Qwen | $1 | 39.5 | $1.80 | |
| 57 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507Qwen | -$11 | Not benchmarked | $3.50 | |
| 58 | gpt-oss-120bOpenAI | -$22 | Not benchmarked | $0.50 | |
| 59 | MiniMax M2.5MiniMax | -$23 | 37.2 | $1.20 | |
| 60 | GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | -$31 | 34.2 | $2.00 |
Only models in our catalog are listed, and each appears once with its best published run. 215 rows were read from the source on October 22, 2026, and rows that match no catalog model are left out.