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Best LLMs for web research

BrowseComp

BrowseComp evaluates web research agents on questions with hard-to-find but verifiable answers. It tests persistent browsing, search, and the ability to connect information from multiple sources. Tool access, search budgets, and context management can differ across published comparison reports.

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Official benchmark
BrowseComp results. Each row identifies its benchmark version and evaluation track. Scores from different versions are not directly comparable. Best effort from the latest stored report date per model and version.
Model / creatorVersionReported score
Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AI · Open source / open weightsUnspecified92.1%
Kimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AI · Open source / open weights200K context92.1%
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI · ProprietarySeptember 202691.5%
GPT-6 AstraOpenAI · Proprietary200K context91.5%
Kimi K3Moonshot AI · Open source / open weightsUnspecified91.2%
Claude Opus 5Anthropic · ProprietarySeptember 202690.8%
Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic · Proprietary200K context90.8%
GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI · ProprietarySeptember 202690.4%
Claude Fable 5Anthropic · ProprietarySeptember 202687.4%
MiniMax M3MiniMax · Open source / open weightsUnspecified83.52%
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0424DeepSeek · Open source / open weightsUnspecified83.4%
Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI · Open source / open weightsUnspecified83.2%
Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI · Open source / open weightsUnspecified74.9%
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0420DeepSeek · Open source / open weightsUnspecified73.2%
Kimi K2 ThinkingMoonshot AI · Open source / open weightsUnspecified60.2%
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September 2026

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra launch comparison; best reported reasoning setting; see source evaluation footnotes

OpenAI ↗
September 2026

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra launch comparison; best reported reasoning setting; see source evaluation footnotes

OpenAI ↗
September 2026

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra launch comparison; best reported reasoning setting; see source evaluation footnotes

OpenAI ↗
September 2026

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra launch comparison; best reported reasoning setting; see source evaluation footnotes

OpenAI ↗
Unspecified

harness comparison: provider-reported; settings differ across models · 200K context compaction; max 500 steps; temperature 1; top-p 1; preserved original track kimi31-report-200k-500steps

Moonshot AI ↗
Kimi K391.2%
Unspecified

harness comparison: provider-reported; settings differ across models · Max effort; temperature 1; top_p 1; context compaction triggered at 300K tokens. Primary General Agents benchmark image. Separate no-management 1M track scores 90.4.

Moonshot AI ↗
Unspecified

harness comparison: provider-reported; settings differ across models · Primary full table; WebExplorer-based agent; discard history after 64K tokens

MiniMax ↗
Unspecified

harness comparison: provider-reported; settings differ across models · Think Max; provider browsing agent; discard-all context management; original V4 release

DeepSeek ↗
Unspecified

harness comparison: provider-reported; settings differ across models · Moonshot provider-reported tool-augmented BrowseComp

Moonshot AI ↗
Unspecified

harness comparison: provider-reported; settings differ across models · Single-agent context-managed track; search, code and browsing tools; excludes 78.4 agent-swarm score

Moonshot AI ↗
Unspecified

harness comparison: provider-reported; settings differ across models · Think Max; provider browsing agent; discard-all context management; original V4 release

DeepSeek ↗
Unspecified

harness comparison: provider-reported; settings differ across models · 256K context; 300-step limit; 24K reasoning per step; hide old tool outputs; Hugging Face blocked

Moonshot AI ↗