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PolicyBench

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic · AI alone, no tools
Current board, snapshot 2026-09-05
United States rank
#14 of 39
US exact
80.3%
United States

United States benchmark

Exact match
80.3%
Bounded score
91.5%
Parse rate
100.0%
Eligibility flags
952/979

Serving sensitivity This row ran under the board's forced answer-tool call, which switches Claude's extended thinking off. The same model, re-run with tool_choice: auto, scores 86.2% exact (+5.9) and would rank #5 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. TANF99.0%0.3%
  5. Person-level WIC eligibility98.9%0.3%
  6. Person-level CHIP eligibility98.3%0.2%
  7. Free school meals eligibility98.0%0.7%
  8. Reduced-price school meals eligibility98.0%0.1%
  9. Self-employment tax98.0%2.1%
  10. SSI96.9%2.0%
  11. Person-level Medicare eligibility96.5%11%
  12. Person-level Medicaid eligibility93.2%30%
  13. Payroll tax85.0%16%
  14. Federal refundable credits83.0%3.7%
  15. State refundable credits79.0%0.6%
  16. SNAP75.3%4.1%
  17. State tax before refundable credits59.0%6.0%
  18. Federal tax before refundable credits50.0%19%
Table view (exact, within 1%, outputs), hardest first
ProgramExactWithin 1%n
Federal tax before refundable credits50.0%50.0%100
State tax before refundable credits59.0%61.0%100
SNAP75.3%75.3%97
State refundable credits79.0%80.0%100
Federal refundable credits83.0%84.0%100
Payroll tax85.0%90.0%100
Person-level Medicaid eligibility93.2%93.2%177
Person-level Medicare eligibility96.5%96.5%172
SSI96.9%96.9%97
Free school meals eligibility98.0%98.0%100
Reduced-price school meals eligibility98.0%98.0%100
Self-employment tax98.0%98.0%100
Person-level CHIP eligibility98.3%98.3%177
Person-level WIC eligibility98.9%98.9%177
TANF99.0%99.0%100
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 8,783 rows whose legacy threshold score is below 1. That universe contains 8,780 of 8,780 exact-match misses and 3 exact hits. Another 1,605 rows with bounded score below 100 were not selected and have no audit annotation.