Grok 4.6 tops Newsroom Reliability v0.2 benchmark at 0.78

In a 50-task run of Newsroom Reliability v0.2, SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 ranked first with a score of 0.78. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna Pro followed at 0.77 with the lowest reported cost among the top three, at $0.0005 per task.

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Newsroom Reliability v0.2 benchmark leaderboard chart

Leaderboard

Rank Model Mean score Est. cost/task
1 SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 0.78 $0.0056
2 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna Pro 0.77 $0.0005
3 OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol Pro 0.76 $0.0215
4 Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 0.73 $0.0044
5 Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 0.71 $0.0211
6 Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash 0.67 $0.0014

How we scored it

Every model answered the same 50-task battery from Newsroom Reliability v0.2, one task at a time, with no tools and no retries on content.

50 open-ended tasks were graded 0–10 by gpt-5.4 against a fixed rubric — blind to which model wrote the answer — and normalized to the same 0–1 scale.

Reasoning effort was pinned to max for every model whose lane exposes a control (OpenAI-style reasoning_effort, Anthropic extended thinking, Gemini thinking config). Models marked vendor default on the interactive board expose no such control and ran as shipped.

A model's mean score averages its graded tasks; a generation failure counts as 0. Cost per task is estimated from each model's published per-token pricing ("—" where pricing isn't public), so treat it as directional, not billing-exact.


Explore every prompt, answer, and per-task grade in the interactive leaderboard.

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