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Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic · reasoning mediumDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek · reasoning medium
32.16th of 12Crusader Bench ScoreMean of the map scores30.08th of 12
Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores 2.1 higher over every map, 32.1 to 30.0, and higher on two of the three maps.
Each Map
33.98th of 1227.210th of 12
28.16th of 1239.65th of 12
34.26th of 1223.311th of 12
Score Breakdown
29%Net worth growth80% of the score29%
21%Population growth10% of the score29%
65Popularity10% of the score41
Cost and Effort, One Game per Map
6Games6
~$1.54CostLower is better$0.39
5.8MTokens6.6M
105Turns131
1 h 13 minWall-clock time1 h 55 min

Ranks are among the models with a full-budget score; over every map, among those with one on every map. Net worth and population growth are each the share of a person’s gain over doing nothing. Cost and effort add up one game on each map, the mean of its games where a model played a map more than once.

Where They Stand

Claude Sonnet 5.5 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 among the models with a full-budget score on every map.

Crusader Bench · crusbench.com

The Games