Benchmarks
Independent, reproducible measurements of the knobs you can actually set on an OpenRouter request: models, providers, search engines, and tool budgets. Every score links to the configuration, costs, and telemetry behind it.
6 benchmarks2,464,213 task evaluationslast run Aug 11, 2026
Agents & tools
Reasoning
Search
BenchmarkQualityValueSpeed
BrowseComp
Hard-to-locate facts on the live web, scored on persistent multi-step research.
4 modelslast run Aug 11, 2026
Quality89.0%PerplexityClaude Opus 5 · high
Value$0.99PerplexityClaude Opus 5 · highSpeed1.9mPerplexityClaude Opus 5 · highDeepSearchQA
Questions whose answers are lists, scored for exhaustive retrieval with no padding.
4 modelslast run Aug 11, 2026
Quality76.5%PerplexityClaude Opus 5 · highValue$0.091ParallelDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · high
Speed1.6mPerplexityGPT-5.6 Luna · xhigh
HLE
Humanity's Last Exam as a search benchmark: expert questions answered with live search.
2 modelslast run Aug 11, 2026
Quality77.4%PerplexityClaude Opus 5 · highValue$0.46PerplexityClaude Opus 5 · highSpeed83sPerplexityClaude Opus 5 · highWideSearch
Fill an entire table; answer-item accuracy scores partial matches.
4 modelslast run Aug 11, 2026
Quality84.0%PerplexityGPT-5.6 Sol · highValue$0.063PerplexityGPT-5.6 Luna · xhighSpeed1.9mPerplexityGPT-5.6 Sol · high
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