# Deep Research on HealthBench

Source: [Deep Research on HealthBench](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/deep-research-on-healthbench>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-06-15T06:34:27.326Z

Evaluation of model performance on the Deep Research task using the HealthBench dataset, measured by the Score metric.

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Deep Research |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | HealthBench |
| Metric | Score |
| Unit | SCALAR |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 38 of 38 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/deep-research-on-healthbench.md?metric=Score>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

## Recorded results

| Method | Score | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GPT-5 + Search | 59.5 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| GPT-5 + Search | 59.5 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| HOTE-8B | 54.4 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| OpenAI Deep Research | 53.8 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| OpenAI Deep Research | 53.8 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| DR Tulu-8B (RL) | 52.8 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| Dr. Zero-8B | 52.1 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| GSPO | 51 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| REINFORCE++ | 50.8 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| DR Tulu-8B-RL | 50.2 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| SPICE-8B | 50.2 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| GRPO | 49.6 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| Tongyi DeepResearch-30B-A3B | 46.2 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| Tongyi DeepResearch-30B-A3B | 46.2 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| WebThinker-32B-DPO (report) | 39.4 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| WebThinker-32B-DPO (report) | 39.4 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| DR Tulu-8B (SFT) | 38.1 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| DR Tulu-8B-SFT | 38.1 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| Gemini 3 Pro + Search | 38 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| Gemini 3 Pro + Search | 38 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| WebThinker QwQ-32B (report) | 36.5 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| WebThinker QwQ-32B (report) | 36.5 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| WebExplorer-8B | 33.7 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| WebExplorer-8B | 33.7 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| Ai2 ScholarQA - Claude Sonnet | 32 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| Ai2 ScholarQA-Claude Sonnet (report) | 32 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| GPT-5 + Our Search | 31.1 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| QwQ-32B | 24.5 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| Qwen3-235B-A22B | 21.3 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| Qwen3-8B | 16.5 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| WebThinker-32B-DPO | 11.1 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| WebThinker-32B-DPO | 11.1 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| Qwen3-8B + Our Search | 5.9 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| Qwen3-8B | 5.9 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| Search-R1-7B | -0.1 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| Search-R1-7B | -0.1 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |
| ASearcher-Web-7B | -13 | Not recorded | 69253885d6b0dd334292f936 |
| ASearcher-Web-7B | -13 | Not recorded | 6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25 |

### GPT-5 + Search

Score: 59.5. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f0286f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Closed Deep Research","Evaluation Protocol":"100-sample subset"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GPT-5 + Search

Score: 59.5. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38a9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Closed Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### HOTE-8B

Score: 54.4. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38bc.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Evolving Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### OpenAI Deep Research

Score: 53.8. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02870.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Closed Deep Research","Evaluation Protocol":"100-sample subset"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### OpenAI Deep Research

Score: 53.8. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38aa.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Closed Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DR Tulu-8B (RL)

Score: 52.8. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f0287d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/rlresearch/dr-tulu>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open Deep Research (Ours)","Training Strategy":"RL"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Dr. Zero-8B

Score: 52.1. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38bb.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6965d1ae6343fa78c8323897.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/facebookresearch/drzero>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Evolving Methods"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GSPO

Score: 51. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a481e209131cea8231d.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"RL Methods"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### REINFORCE++

Score: 50.8. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a631e209131cea82d06.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"RL Methods"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DR Tulu-8B-RL

Score: 50.2. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/rlresearch/dr-tulu>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SPICE-8B

Score: 50.2. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38ba.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69019f853ef7ccd74e5e3b6e.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Evolving Methods"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GRPO

Score: 49.6. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73101e209131cea5a395.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"RL Methods"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Tongyi DeepResearch-30B-A3B

Score: 46.2. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02877.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69019f853ef7ccd74e5e3b7f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Tongyi DeepResearch-30B-A3B

Score: 46.2. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b1.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69019f853ef7ccd74e5e3b7f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### WebThinker-32B-DPO (report)

Score: 39.4. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02879.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c191e209131cea8c4d7.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Fixed Pipeline Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### WebThinker-32B-DPO (report)

Score: 39.4. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c191e209131cea8c4d7.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Fixed Pipeline Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DR Tulu-8B (SFT)

Score: 38.1. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f0287c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/rlresearch/dr-tulu>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open Deep Research (Ours)","Training Strategy":"SFT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DR Tulu-8B-SFT

Score: 38.1. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/rlresearch/dr-tulu>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Gemini 3 Pro + Search

Score: 38. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f0286d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Closed Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Gemini 3 Pro + Search

Score: 38. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38a8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Closed Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### WebThinker QwQ-32B (report)

Score: 36.5. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02878.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c191e209131cea8c4d7.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Fixed Pipeline Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### WebThinker QwQ-32B (report)

Score: 36.5. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b2.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c191e209131cea8c4d7.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Fixed Pipeline Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### WebExplorer-8B

Score: 33.7. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02875.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7ba71e209131cea89abb.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### WebExplorer-8B

Score: 33.7. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38af.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7ba71e209131cea89abb.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Ai2 ScholarQA - Claude Sonnet

Score: 32. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f0287a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a4d1e209131cea824d9.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Fixed Pipeline Deep Research","Evaluation Protocol":"100-sample subset"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Ai2 ScholarQA-Claude Sonnet (report)

Score: 32. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a4d1e209131cea824d9.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Fixed Pipeline Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GPT-5 + Our Search

Score: 31.1. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f0286e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Closed Deep Research"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### QwQ-32B

Score: 24.5. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02872.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Naive RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-235B-A22B

Score: 21.3. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38ac.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa788e1e209131cea79116.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-8B

Score: 16.5. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02871.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa788e1e209131cea79116.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Naive RAG"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### WebThinker-32B-DPO

Score: 11.1. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02876.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c191e209131cea8c4d7.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### WebThinker-32B-DPO

Score: 11.1. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38b0.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c191e209131cea8c4d7.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-8B + Our Search

Score: 5.9. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f0287b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa788e1e209131cea79116.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open Deep Research (Ours)"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-8B

Score: 5.9. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38ab.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa788e1e209131cea79116.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Search-R1-7B

Score: -0.1. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02873.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7ba71e209131cea89abb.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Search-R1-7B

Score: -0.1. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38ad.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7a651e209131cea82e7b.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ASearcher-Web-7B

Score: -13. Result ID: 6a0ab2e047f34ce924f02874.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69253885d6b0dd334292f936.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7b441e209131cea87635.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ASearcher-Web-7B

Score: -13. Result ID: 6a2f9cdefbc373592c2b38ae.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6a2f870cd33dfb23e783bf25.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7b441e209131cea87635.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Category":"Open Deep Research Models"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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