task_id stringlengths 2 5 | kind stringclasses 9
values | band stringclasses 3
values | variant_of stringclasses 12
values | model stringclasses 2
values | repeat int64 1 1 | passed bool 2
classes | prompt_tokens float64 47 186 ⌀ | completion_tokens float64 2 512 ⌀ | latency_s float64 2.69 567 ⌀ | finish_reason stringclasses 3
values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
e1 | arithmetic | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 52 | 5 | 3.975 | stop |
e2 | extraction | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 60 | 5 | 3.538 | stop |
e3 | classification | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 60 | 2 | 2.69 | stop |
e4 | arithmetic | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 57 | 6 | 3.504 | stop |
e5 | extraction | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 64 | 4 | 3.462 | stop |
e6 | classification | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 57 | 2 | 3.23 | stop |
e7 | structured | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 61 | 22 | 12.101 | stop |
e8 | arithmetic | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 47 | 4 | 2.994 | stop |
ne1 | arithmetic | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 53 | 4 | 3.003 | stop |
ne2 | arithmetic | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 59 | 3 | 3.586 | stop |
ne3 | extraction | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 72 | 2 | 3.903 | stop |
ne4 | classification | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 62 | 2 | 3.006 | stop |
ne5 | structured | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 74 | 24 | 7.665 | stop |
ne6 | arithmetic | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 65 | 3 | 2.803 | stop |
ne7 | classification | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 65 | 2 | 2.798 | stop |
ne8 | extraction | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 69 | 3 | 3.594 | stop |
ne9 | ordering | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 58 | 10 | 5.515 | stop |
ne10 | data | easy | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 69 | 3 | 3.38 | stop |
m1 | analysis | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 110 | 48 | 20.033 | stop |
m2 | analysis | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 89 | 25 | 11.693 | stop |
m3 | analysis | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 103 | 301 | 101.369 | stop |
m4 | multihop | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 77 | 82 | 26.593 | stop |
m5 | structured | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 68 | 189 | 55.488 | stop |
m6 | analysis | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 111 | 242 | 78.389 | stop |
m7 | arithmetic | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 186 | 38 | 25.818 | stop |
m8 | data | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 100 | 30 | 12.592 | stop |
nm1 | arithmetic | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 61 | 4 | 3.1 | stop |
nm2 | data | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 92 | 5 | 5.573 | stop |
nm3 | arithmetic | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 79 | 4 | 4.627 | stop |
nm4 | extraction | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 78 | 2 | 3.488 | stop |
nm5 | structured | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 65 | 42 | 14.372 | stop |
nm6 | classification | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 108 | 3 | 5.123 | stop |
nm7 | data | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 69 | 5 | 5.186 | stop |
nm8 | multihop | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 72 | 3 | 3.096 | stop |
nm9 | data | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 96 | 5 | 5.02 | stop |
nm10 | logic | medium | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 82 | 10 | 5.091 | stop |
h1 | multihop | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 128 | 474 | 191.96 | stop |
h2 | arithmetic | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 96 | 2 | 4.938 | stop |
h3 | multihop | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 81 | 512 | 197.891 | length |
h4 | analysis | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 137 | 348 | 170.433 | stop |
h5 | arithmetic | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 100 | 7 | 6.757 | stop |
h6 | multihop | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 114 | 273 | 100.809 | stop |
h7 | arithmetic | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 88 | 372 | 123.756 | stop |
h8 | multihop | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 97 | 512 | 177.95 | length |
nh1 | analysis | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 80 | 5 | 4.554 | stop |
nh2 | arithmetic | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 78 | 6 | 3.818 | stop |
nh3 | analysis | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 80 | 6 | 4.2 | stop |
nh4 | data | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 82 | 398 | 147.273 | stop |
nh5 | logic | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 94 | 228 | 74.92 | stop |
nh6 | data | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 81 | 3 | 3.871 | stop |
nh7 | analysis | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 83 | 5 | 14.624 | stop |
nh8 | arithmetic | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 66 | 5 | 8.598 | stop |
nh9 | structured | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 83 | 22 | 17.572 | stop |
nh10 | classification | hard | null | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 148 | 3 | 8.596 | stop |
p-e1 | arithmetic | easy | e1 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 50 | 5 | 8.029 | stop |
p-e4 | arithmetic | easy | e4 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 58 | 5 | 7.054 | stop |
p-e7 | structured | easy | e7 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 66 | 24 | 14.322 | stop |
p-m6 | analysis | medium | m6 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 95 | 399 | 133.106 | stop |
p-h6 | multihop | hard | h6 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 88 | 134 | 52.516 | stop |
p-ne2 | arithmetic | easy | ne2 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 62 | 3 | 16.097 | stop |
p-ne6 | arithmetic | easy | ne6 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 59 | 3 | 10.262 | stop |
p-nm3 | arithmetic | medium | nm3 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 81 | 3 | 9.416 | stop |
p-nm7 | data | medium | nm7 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 71 | 3 | 8.686 | stop |
p-nm8 | multihop | medium | nm8 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 65 | 3 | 7.232 | stop |
p-nh1 | analysis | hard | nh1 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 77 | 5 | 12.204 | stop |
p-nh2 | arithmetic | hard | nh2 | qwen2.5-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 73 | 6 | 12.987 | stop |
e1 | arithmetic | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 54 | 3 | 10.25 | stop |
e2 | extraction | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 64 | 3 | 8.903 | stop |
e3 | classification | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 66 | 2 | 6.194 | stop |
e4 | arithmetic | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 61 | 3 | 11.508 | stop |
e5 | extraction | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 66 | 2 | 6.005 | stop |
e6 | classification | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 63 | 4 | 7.167 | stop |
e7 | structured | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 67 | 14 | 14.952 | stop |
e8 | arithmetic | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 50 | 4 | 7.783 | stop |
ne1 | arithmetic | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 53 | 2 | 4.505 | stop |
ne2 | arithmetic | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 63 | 3 | 9.773 | stop |
ne3 | extraction | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 75 | 2 | 7.183 | stop |
ne4 | classification | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 68 | 2 | 6.027 | stop |
ne5 | structured | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 79 | 15 | 20.6 | stop |
ne6 | arithmetic | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 70 | 2 | 7.567 | stop |
ne7 | classification | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 71 | 3 | 9.402 | stop |
ne8 | extraction | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 71 | 21 | 26.621 | stop |
ne9 | ordering | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 62 | 8 | 9.688 | stop |
ne10 | data | easy | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 71 | 2 | 7.742 | stop |
m1 | analysis | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 109 | 90 | 81.868 | stop |
m2 | analysis | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 95 | 91 | 80.394 | stop |
m3 | analysis | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 108 | 207 | 182.464 | stop |
m4 | multihop | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 83 | 139 | 140.41 | stop |
m5 | structured | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 74 | 454 | 436.948 | stop |
m6 | analysis | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 117 | 198 | 222.826 | stop |
m7 | arithmetic | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 165 | 97 | 122.475 | stop |
m8 | data | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 102 | 134 | 129.951 | stop |
nm1 | arithmetic | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 66 | 2 | 7.501 | stop |
nm2 | data | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 86 | 81 | 107.776 | stop |
nm3 | arithmetic | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 82 | 2 | 8.852 | stop |
nm4 | extraction | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 76 | 2 | 8.301 | stop |
nm5 | structured | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 71 | 67 | 74.073 | stop |
nm6 | classification | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | true | 114 | 3 | 13.868 | stop |
nm7 | data | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 73 | 2 | 7.009 | stop |
nm8 | multihop | medium | null | llama-3.2-3b-instruct-q4_k_m | 1 | false | 77 | 2 | 8.526 | stop |
Cost Per Correct — v2
A benchmark for evaluating LLM agents on cost-effectiveness rather than accuracy alone. The headline metric is the cost of each correct answer:
cost per correct = total spend (USD) ÷ number of correct answers
A cheap model that is usually right can therefore beat an expensive model that is always right — the trade-off production agent deployments actually face, and the one accuracy-only leaderboards hide. Read the metric together with accuracy: without an accuracy floor it is misleading.
Version 2 (this release, 2026-11-02) replaces the v1 smoke test (5 easy tasks, 17 hosted results) with the expanded, verified task set and the first fully documented pilot results. The Zenodo archival record for this benchmark is DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23439614 (concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23439613), deposited 2026-10-17 for v1.
Origin
- Created by Karmendra Pandey (ORCID: 0009-0000-3461-9889).
- First published 11 October 2026 as a public benchmark on Kaggle Benchmarks: https://www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/karmendra8386/cost-per-correct
The task set (config: tasks)
66 entries: 54 independent tasks + 12 paraphrase variants.
- Independent tasks: 18 easy / 18 medium / 18 hard. With variants, the full set is 23 easy / 22 medium / 21 hard.
- 9 kinds: arithmetic (20), analysis (10), data (8), multihop (8), classification (6), structured (6), extraction (5), logic (2), ordering (1).
- Each task is a single-turn prompt with a deterministic gold answer and a deterministic, rule-based verifier — no LLM judge anywhere. Golds were established by programmatic recomputation and a 139-check self-test (canonical answers for all 66 tasks, 26 adversarial must-fail probes, independent gold re-derivations).
- Paraphrase variants are flagged in
variant_of, reword a source task without changing its data or gold, and are never counted as independent tasks.
Files: tasks/tasks_v2.csv and tasks/tasks_v2.json (same 66 tasks;
fields: id, kind, band, prompt, expected, variant_of,
verifier).
Pilot results (config: pilot_results) — exactly what was run
A free, local pilot run on 2026-11-02 — zero spend, no API keys:
- Models (both local, Q4_K_M GGUF, run on llama.cpp llama-server): Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct and Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct. These are small local open-weight models — the pilot results are not results for any hosted or frontier model.
- Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct: all 66 tasks — 35/66 passed (53.0%); independent tasks 32/54 (59.3%); 5,311 prompt + 4,918 completion tokens.
- Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct: a 41-task subset — 22/41 passed (53.7%); 3,276 prompt + 2,878 completion tokens. The Llama run covers all 9 kinds and all 3 bands; it was stopped at 41 tasks by the operator (host CPU contention), so tasks h6–h8, nh1–nh10 and all 12 variants have no Llama result. One Llama row (h4) is a recorded error (client timeout, no graded answer).
- Settings: temperature 0, max_tokens 512, 1 repeat per task.
- Token counts are the runtime's own reported usage — measured, not estimated. Latency is client-observed wall time on a CPU-contended shared VM and should not be compared across models.
- No API dollar costs are claimed for these runs: actual cost was $0.00 (local inference). Where a hosted-equivalent cost per correct is quoted in the summary (≈ $0.000019 Qwen / $0.000018 Llama), it prices the measured tokens at a dated third-party list price (Groq llama-3.1-8b-instant, $0.05 in / $0.08 out per 1M tokens, snapshot 2026-10-31) and is labelled an estimate.
- Proof: correctness was re-graded from the saved raw responses with
the dataset's own verifiers — 107 of 107 verdicts reproduced.
See
proof/PROOF.md(model file SHA256s, runtime, timeline, full disclosure of incidents),proof/summary.md,proof/grading_log.csv, andresults/raw_outputs.jsonl(full prompt + full raw response for every run).results/pilot_results.csvis the full results table including response text; the viewer config usesresults/pilot_results_viewer.csv, the same 107 rows without the response-text column.
Limitations
- 66 tasks is still a small benchmark; read results as cost-efficiency signals, not general model rankings.
- The pilot covers two small local 3B models only, one run per task, and Llama covers only 41 of the 66 tasks.
- Hosted-equivalent dollar figures depend on a dated price snapshot and are comparable only across runs priced at the same rates.
Citation
@misc{pandey2026costpercorrect,
author = {Pandey, Karmendra},
title = {{Cost Per Correct}: Benchmark Tasks for
Cost-per-Correct-Answer Evaluation of {LLM} Agents},
year = {2026},
version = {2.0.0},
howpublished = {Kaggle Benchmarks / Hugging Face Datasets},
url = {https://www.kaggle.com/benchmarks/karmendra8386/cost-per-correct},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23439614},
note = {Zenodo dataset record, deposited 2026-10-17 (v1); v2 task set and local pilot results published on Hugging Face 2026-11-02}
}
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