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PolicyBench

Claude Opus 5

Anthropic · AI alone, no tools
Current board, snapshot 2026-10-14
United States rank
#23 of 50
US exact
83.7%
United States

United States benchmark

Exact match
83.7%
Bounded score
92.6%
Parse rate
100.0%
Eligibility flags
952/975

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 90.1% exact (+6.4) and would rank #11 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. Reduced-price school meals eligibility99.0%0.1%
  5. TANF99.0%0.3%
  6. Person-level WIC eligibility98.9%0.3%
  7. Person-level CHIP eligibility98.3%0.2%
  8. Free school meals eligibility98.0%0.7%
  9. Self-employment tax98.0%2.1%
  10. SSI96.9%2.0%
  11. Person-level Medicare eligibility96.5%11%
  12. Person-level Medicaid eligibility94.8%30%
  13. Payroll tax88.5%16%
  14. Federal refundable credits83.0%3.7%
  15. State refundable credits80.8%0.6%
  16. SNAP78.5%4.1%
  17. State tax before refundable credits63.4%6.0%
  18. Federal tax before refundable credits54.8%19%
Table view (exact, within 1%, outputs), hardest first
ProgramExactWithin 1%n
Federal tax before refundable credits54.8%54.8%84
State tax before refundable credits63.4%64.5%93
SNAP78.5%78.5%93
State refundable credits80.8%81.8%99
Federal refundable credits83.0%84.0%100
Payroll tax88.5%93.8%96
Person-level Medicaid eligibility94.8%94.8%173
Person-level Medicare eligibility96.5%96.5%172
SSI96.9%96.9%97
Free 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
Reduced-price school meals eligibility99.0%99.0%100
TANF99.0%99.0%100
Local income tax100.0%100.0%98
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 8,765 rows whose legacy threshold score is below 1. That universe contains 8,761 of 8,761 exact-match misses and 4 exact hits. Another 2,329 rows with bounded score below 100 were not selected and have no audit annotation.