Surface Evolver Bench is an AI evaluation tracked by Epoch AI, with 17 scored model versions on record. The scores here are reported by third parties rather than produced by Epoch AI running the evaluation itself.
Scored models span August 2025 to July 2026. The best score recorded is 0.95, measured as Mean score. Models come from Anthropic, OpenAI, Moonshot, xAI, Z.ai (Zhipu AI), DeepSeek, MiniMax, Alibaba and others.
| 01 | claude-fable-5_high | Anthropic | 0.95 |
| 02 | gpt-5.6-sol_xhigh | OpenAI | 0.93 |
| 03 | kimi-k3_max | Moonshot | 0.93 |
| 04 | gpt-5.5_high | OpenAI | 0.88 |
| 05 | claude-opus-4-8_high | Anthropic | 0.88 |
| 06 | gpt-5.6-terra_xhigh | OpenAI | 0.84 |
| 07 | gpt-5.5_medium | OpenAI | 0.81 |
| 08 | grok-4.5_high | xAI | 0.74 |
| 09 | claude-opus-4-8_none | Anthropic | 0.66 |
| 10 | gpt-5.6-luna_medium | OpenAI | 0.6 |
| 11 | glm-5.2_high | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | 0.56 |
| 12 | MiniMax-M3 | MiniMax | 0.53 |
| 13 | kimi-k2.7-code | Moonshot | 0.49 |
| 14 | qwen3.6-35b-a3b | Alibaba | 0.44 |
| 15 | deepseek-v4-pro_high | DeepSeek | 0.4 |
| 16 | gemma-4-31b-it | Google DeepMind | 0.31 |
| 17 | gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI | 0.25 |