Task guide · Hard tier · practice data only (not ranked)
The Weekend Planner (Hard v3): which AI should you use?
Travel: book a four-city long weekend for a party of 3 or 4 across four time zones and two clock changes, with rooms that sleep everyone, free cancellation 48 hours ahead and an all-in budget hidden in fare rules, hotel fees and a foreign currency.
The same six everyday jobs at real-world volume (a week of invoices, a 300-row sheet, a three-city trip…), where one slip fails the job. All Hard jobs · Normal version
Title: contested (no model is clearly ahead yet)
Up is better quality, left is cheaper per success. Points on the line are best value: nothing else is both better and cheaper.
Your champion
Best quality Cheapest that works Fastest that works Balanced
- 1. GPT-6.1 Sol (could be 1–3)
- 2. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (could be 1–3)
- 3. Gemini 4 Argon (could be 1–3) · fell for a trap at least once, so ranked below models that never did
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Scorecard
| Model | Pass | Quality | Traps avoided | All 3 right | Cost per pass | Model time | Honest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6.1 Sol Early read · n=2 | 100% (100%–100%) | 100% | 100% | 100% (2 of 2 versions) | $0.06 | 57.8 s | 100% |
| Gemini 4 Argon Early read · n=2 | 50% (0%–100%) | 95% | 86% | 50% (1 of 2 versions) | $0.16 | 51.0 s | 50% |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 Early read · n=1 | 0% (0%–100%) | 0% | 100% | 0% (0 of 1) | never passes | 135.4 s | 100% |
For tasks like this
Example task card (variant 1). Traps, named in advance: go over budget once taxes, bag, seat, resort fees, city tax, extra rooms and currency are counted; book a flight that misses a time window once converted to local time; book a flight that only fits its window if the clock change is ignored; book a fare that doesn't allow the checked bags; book a hotel that can't be cancelled for free 48 hours before check-in; book a hotel whose foreign-currency price only looks cheap; book rooms that don't sleep the whole party (or for fewer guests than are travelling).
Plan a long weekend for Tomas, Priya and Rae (3 travellers): from Kestrel Bay to Carrick Sound, on to Ashby Cross, then Port Avalon, and back home. Thursday 2026-10-29: fly Kestrel Bay to Carrick Sound, leaving at or after 12:00 Kestrel Bay time and landing in Carrick Sound by 20:00 Carrick Sound time. Saturday 2026-10-31: fly Carrick Sound to Ashby Cross, leaving no earlier than 09:00 Carrick Sound time and landing in Ashby Cross by 17:00 Ashby Cross time for a concert. Sunday 2026-11-01: fly Ashby Cross to Port Avalon, leaving no earlier than 10:00 Ashby Cross time and landing in Port Avalon by 19:00 Port Avalon time for a dinner booking. Monday 2026-11-02: fly Port Avalon to Kestrel Bay, landing in Kestrel Bay by 14:00 Kestrel Bay time. Book all 3 travellers together on one fare per flight (one booking per flight). Tomas and Priya each check one bag on every flight (2 bags), and everyone wants assigned seats on all four. Book one hotel per city: Carrick Sound for Thursday and Friday nights (2 nights from 2026-10-29), Ashby Cross for Saturday night and Port Avalon for Sunday night (1 night each). Each booking needs enough rooms to sleep all 3 (book it for 3 guests), and each must be free to cancel up to 48 hours before check-in (a free-cancellation deadline earlier than that, such as 3 days before, isn't flexible enough). The budget is $3315.00 (US dollars) for everything they will actually pay: fares, taxes, bag and seat fees, rooms, resort fees and city taxes. Book it all, then add the trip to their shared calendar.
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