Official run
Claude Opus 5High
In this Twenty Questions AI benchmark, Claude Opus 5 (high) ranks 3 of 18 with a question score of 12.34: the average number of questions per round, where lower is better. It solved every round. The run has 35 scored rounds: 7 subjects, 5 rounds each. Choose a subject to see its rounds.
Rank 3 of 18anthropicHigh
Round scores are averaged for each subject, then across subjects. A failed round gets the fixed failure score.
The 95% confidence interval shows how certain the average is, based on repeated rounds on these subjects. A wider interval means less consistent results. It does not predict scores on other subjects.
- Solved
- 100%
- Valid format
- 99.4%
- Guesser cost
- $2.47
- Guesser time
- 42m 27s
Drill down
Subjects.
Complete benchmark
Run totals.
Includes the Guesser and all answer-checking models.
- Total tokens
- 3,909,611
- Total runtime
- 2h 4m
- Guesser calls
- 467
- Completed
Reply format
Format errors found.
3 invalid replies in 2 rounds used up 3 counted turns.
Run details
- Execution
BX-20260728-official-M0006-010- Model ID
M-0006- Benchmark
B-0001- Base seed
0- Git commit
aa131c32c065
Recorded cost
By role.
- Guesser45.1%$2.47
- Oracle38%$2.08
- Reviewer7.6%$0.41
- Judge9%$0.49
- Validator0.2%$0.01
Roles in this cost:
- Guesser
- The tested model. Asks questions and makes guesses.
- Oracle
- Searches for evidence and proposes an answer.
- Reviewer
- Checks each Oracle answer except Unknown, without seeing it.
- Judge
- Decides when the Oracle and Reviewer disagree.
- Validator
- Checks whether a guess names the hidden subject.
Run configuration
Models.
Models, prompt versions, providers, calls, and cost for the whole run.
anthropic/claude-opus-5
The tested model. Asks questions and makes guesses.
- Calls
- 467
- Cost
- $2.4682
- Reasoning
- High
- Routing
- Fixed provider · anthropic
- Resolved model
- anthropic/claude-opus-5
- Resolved provider
- Anthropic
- Prompt version
stateful-category-guesser-v10-unknown-evidence-guidance- Configuration
M-0006
Provider details
Older run: providers were not recorded per call. The configured provider was anthropic.
Answer checks
Answering and checking models.
These models answer and check the Guesser's questions and guesses. They are the same for every round and are not being tested.
openai/gpt-5.6-luna
Searches for evidence and proposes an answer.
- Calls
- 426
- Cost
- $2.0802
- Reasoning
- Medium
- Routing
- Fixed provider · openai
- Resolved model
- openai/gpt-5.6-luna
- Resolved provider
- OpenAI
- Prompt version
live-web-oracle-v7-direct-negative-evidence
Provider details
Older run: providers were not recorded per call. The configured provider was openai.
google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite
Checks each Oracle answer except Unknown, without seeing it.
- Calls
- 404
- Cost
- $0.4143
- Reasoning
- Medium
- Routing
- Fixed provider · google-ai-studio
Provider details
Older run: providers were not recorded per call. The configured provider was google-ai-studio.
anthropic/claude-opus-5
Decides when the Oracle and Reviewer disagree.
- Calls
- 41
- Cost
- $0.4932
- Reasoning
- Medium
- Routing
- Fixed provider · anthropic
Provider details
Older run: providers were not recorded per call. The configured provider was anthropic.
openai/gpt-5.6-luna
Checks whether a guess names the hidden subject.
- Calls
- 38
- Cost
- $0.0117
- Reasoning
- Medium
- Routing
- Fixed provider · openai
- Resolved model
- openai/gpt-5.6-luna
- Resolved provider
- OpenAI
- Prompt version
strict-guess-validator-v1- Configuration
gpt-5.6-luna-validator
Provider details
Older run: providers were not recorded per call. The configured provider was openai.