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Deepseek Wins Imo Gold On 12 Cents

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Cline evaluation and engineering blog
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Why it matters

Reports an model clearing the IMO gold cutoff at about 140 times lower cost than a frontier model. This informs model choice where cost matters for reasoning-heavy work.

Key takeaways · AI-distilled
  • Cline had proofs graded blind on the 0 to 7 IMO scale by GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 5, with Gemini 3.1 Pro resolving disagreements; graders saw the problem, rubric, and reference solutions but not the model identity.
  • In Cline's runs, DeepSeek V4 Flash scored 30/42 for $0.12, while Kimi K3 scored 35/42 for about $5.13 and Claude Fable 5 scored 41/42 for about $17.20; GLM 5.2 scored 21 and Qwen 3.6 35B A3B 16.
  • Cline took each model's best score per problem across multiple attempts rather than Pass@k, and listed prices cover only the single best run, not the exploration spent fixing tool-calling issues.
  • Reward-hacking controls included telling models not to use the internet, exposing only a submit-solution tool, giving no prior like Lean artifacts, and checking traces for browser use.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
  • agent harness — The scaffolding around a model that turns it into a working agent — the loop, the tools it can call, and the rules for when to stop.
  • open weights — A model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.
  • context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
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