SimpleQA A
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What is SimpleQA?
SimpleQA measures whether language models can accurately answer short, fact-seeking questions with single verifiable answers, testing factuality and hallucination.
General capability mostly
“A factuality benchmark called SimpleQA that measures the ability for language models to answer short, fact-seeking questions.”
openai.com/index/introducing-simpleqa/ ↗
Lineage
Benchmarks this one is built on and built from: versions, subsets, extensions and the indexes that combine them.
Derived benchmarks
Chinese-SimpleQA extension
“Chinese SimpleQA measures how factually accurate language models are when answering short Chinese-language questions across 6 major topics and 99 subtopics.”
CSimpleQA extension
“Chinese SimpleQA measures the factuality of language models answering short Chinese factual questions across 6 major topics and 99 subtopics.”
SimpleQA Net Score extension
SimpleQA Verified extension
Video SimpleQA extension
“Video SimpleQA measures factual grounding of large video language models using short-form, multi-hop, knowledge-requiring, temporally grounded video questions.”
Tier A
Widely used: a lab reports it, or 50 or more models are scored on it.
How much stands behind a tier: usage, who backs it, a confirmed line from its own site or paper, and a clear read on X. High with three of the four, medium with two, low otherwise.
- 31 models scored
- reported by OpenAI
- in curated RL directories (2 pts)
On X · well regarded, moderate buzz, from 8 posts about SimpleQA in the last month
SimpleQA Verified is used to report frontier model results like Gemini 4 Argon's SOTA and by search API vendors touting accuracy; little criticism.
How we got to tier A
- Adoption: 31 models scored; reported by OpenAI. Tier A.
- On X: well regarded, moderate buzz. “SimpleQA Verified is used to report frontier model results like Gemini 4 Argon's SOTA and by search API vendors touting accuracy; little criticism.” No move.
- In curated RL directories: 2 points, a floor of C.
- Confirmed: a line from its own site or paper places it.
A clear view on X moves a tier one step up or down; most entries don't move. How tiers work.
Where SimpleQA sits
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