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PolicyBench

Claude Fable 5

Anthropic · AI alone, no tools
Current board, snapshot 2026-09-30
United States rank
#21 of 46
US exact
84.9%
United States

United States benchmark

Exact match
84.9%
Bounded score
93.0%
Parse rate
100.0%
Eligibility flags
946/975

Serving sensitivity This row ran under the board's forced answer-tool call, which switches Claude's extended thinking off, one output per request. The same model, re-run with tool_choice: auto and the whole household in one request, scores 92.8% exact (+7.9) and would rank #6 on the live board; the board keeps the request shape its model card records. Read the note.

Exact match by programall 18 output groups, best first

Bar length is the unweighted exact-match rate on that program's outputs; the right column is the program's share of the headline weight, which follows household dollars, so the bars do not average to the headline.

  1. Local income tax100.0%0.3%
  2. Person-level Early Head Start eligibility100.0%3.1%
  3. Person-level Head Start eligibility100.0%1.2%
  4. Person-level WIC eligibility99.4%0.3%
  5. Free school meals eligibility99.0%0.7%
  6. Reduced-price school meals eligibility99.0%0.1%
  7. TANF99.0%0.3%
  8. Person-level CHIP eligibility98.9%0.2%
  9. Self-employment tax97.0%2.1%
  10. SSI96.9%2.0%
  11. Person-level Medicaid eligibility94.8%30%
  12. Person-level Medicare eligibility91.3%11%
  13. Federal refundable credits87.8%3.7%
  14. Payroll tax86.3%16%
  15. SNAP83.9%4.1%
  16. State refundable credits82.7%0.6%
  17. State tax before refundable credits63.5%6.0%
  18. Federal tax before refundable credits60.8%19%
Table view (exact, within 1%, outputs), hardest first
ProgramExactWithin 1%n
Federal tax before refundable credits60.8%62.0%79
State tax before refundable credits63.5%64.7%85
State refundable credits82.7%82.7%98
SNAP83.9%83.9%93
Payroll tax86.3%86.3%95
Federal refundable credits87.8%90.8%98
Person-level Medicare eligibility91.3%91.3%172
Person-level Medicaid eligibility94.8%94.8%173
SSI96.9%96.9%97
Self-employment tax97.0%99.0%100
Person-level CHIP eligibility98.9%98.9%177
Free school meals eligibility99.0%99.0%100
Reduced-price school meals eligibility99.0%99.0%100
TANF99.0%99.0%100
Person-level WIC eligibility99.4%99.4%177
Local income tax100.0%100.0%100
Person-level Early Head Start eligibility100.0%100.0%38
Person-level Head Start eligibility100.0%100.0%38

Hardest casesworst misses on positive references

Scores are from the frozen manuscript snapshot under the AI-alone condition: structured responses over the same household facts (whole-scenario or in output subsets, per the serving-configuration table), no tools, graded against PolicyEngine reference outputs. See the leaderboard and paper for methodology. The frozen US annotations cover 7,527 rows whose legacy threshold score is below 1. That universe contains 7,523 of 7,523 exact-match misses and 4 exact hits. Another 2,072 rows with bounded score below 100 were not selected and have no audit annotation.