GAIA vs BrowseComp
GAIA or BrowseComp? GAIA has 466 questions that are simple for people but hard for AI, combining browsing, files, images and tools to reach one short answer. BrowseComp has 1,266 questions that need persistent web navigation to find hard-to-find, entangled facts.
| GAIA | BrowseComp | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Meta, Hugging Face & collaborators | OpenAI |
| Skills | Reasoning, browsing, file and image handling, tool use | Persistent, creative web browsing |
| Size | 466 questions (300 answers held back) | 1,266 questions |
| Headline result | Humans 92% vs GPT-4 with plugins 15% | — |
| Access | Gated on Hugging Face | Released by OpenAI |
| Watch out for | Full local scoring only on the released part | Avoids long answers and ambiguity, per the authors |
| License | — | — |
Verdict: when to use which
Use GAIA if you are testing a general assistant across mixed tools.
Use BrowseComp if you are testing a deep-research or browsing agent specifically.
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