# BenchLeader (remote · www.benchleader.com)

Daily LLM leaderboard from independent benchmarks: ranks, scores, prices, speed and comparisons.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `www.benchleader.com`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-benchleader-benchleader/www.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-benchleader-benchleader/www)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://www.benchleader.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Nothing on it is marked destructive, but we can't show that an anonymous caller can only read: full credit needs the server to list at least one tool and every tool to be verifiably read-only. We use a best-effort check of tool names and descriptions to tell read-only tools from tools that change things, so some genuinely read-only tools may not get full credit. Names that start with a read verb (get, list, read, search and similar) and accurate readOnlyHint annotations help. Meet that to earn full credit, or require authorisation.
  - HTTPS check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 68/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1008 tokens (~144/item across 7 items; 7 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 7 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the BenchLeader MCP server?

BenchLeader is a hosted endpoint at https://www.benchleader.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-benchleader-benchleader 'https://www.benchleader.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-benchleader-benchleader": {
      "url": "https://www.benchleader.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-benchleader-benchleader": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.benchleader.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-benchleader-benchleader]
url = "https://www.benchleader.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-benchleader-benchleader": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://www.benchleader.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-benchleader-benchleader --url 'https://www.benchleader.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-benchleader-benchleader:
    url: "https://www.benchleader.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-benchleader-benchleader": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://www.benchleader.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-benchleader-benchleader -t streamable-http -u 'https://www.benchleader.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-benchleader-benchleader": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.benchleader.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 68, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 66, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-31 (score 65)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `get_leaderboard` (~224 tokens)

BenchLeader leaderboard

The BenchLeader Index leaderboard of large language models: a daily composite of independent public benchmarks, one row per model (its best reasoning-effort configuration) as on the homepage. Optionally rank by one category score (coding, agentic, reasoning, math, knowledge…), list every model × effort configuration, or filter to open-weights models or one developer. Paged.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Rank by this category score instead of the overall Index, e.g. coding, agentic, reasoning, math, knowledge, instruction, multimodal, long_context.
- `configurations` (boolean): List every ranked model × reasoning-effort configuration rather than one row per model.
- `developer` (string): Only models from this developer, e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek.
- `limit` (integer): How many rows to return (at most 100).
- `offset` (integer): Rows to skip, for paging (use next_offset from the previous page).
- `open_weights_only` (boolean): Only models with downloadable weights.

### `search_models` (~87 tokens)

Search models

Find models by name, alias, id or developer ("opus", "gemini 4", "deepseek"). Returns each match's id, rank, Index and reasoning-effort configurations, for use with get_model and compare_models.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): How many matches to return (at most 25).
- `query` (string, required): Model name, alias, id or developer.

### `get_model` (~145 tokens)

Model details

One model's BenchLeader profile: Index and rank, category scores, list price, speed, latency, context window, its other reasoning-effort configurations, and its strongest independent benchmark results (each with its board rank, publisher and source link).

Input parameters:

- `effort` (string): Reasoning-effort configuration to show (none, low, medium, high, xhigh, max…). Defaults to the best-ranked one.
- `model` (string, required): Model id ("claude-opus-5-5"), configuration id ("gpt-6-astra@max"), page URL or name.
- `results_limit` (integer): How many benchmark results to return (at most 50).

### `compare_models` (~145 tokens)

Compare two models

Head-to-head comparison of two models with BenchLeader's verdict: who leads on quality (a lead is claimed only outside the combined margin of error), price and speed ratios, category-by-category wins, when to choose each, and shared benchmark results. Links the comparison page.

Input parameters:

- `effort_a` (string): Reasoning effort for model_a (defaults to its best-ranked configuration).
- `effort_b` (string): Reasoning effort for model_b (defaults to its best-ranked configuration).
- `model_a` (string, required): First model: id, configuration id, page URL or name.
- `model_b` (string, required): Second model: id, configuration id, page URL or name.

### `list_benchmarks` (~162 tokens)

List benchmarks

The benchmarks BenchLeader reads: what each measures, publisher, category, whether it feeds the Index (and its weight), how many models it covers, status and caveats. Filter by category or a search query. Paged.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Only this category, e.g. coding, agentic, reasoning, math, knowledge.
- `in_index_only` (boolean): Only benchmarks that feed the BenchLeader Index.
- `limit` (integer): How many benchmarks to return (at most 100).
- `offset` (integer): Rows to skip, for paging (use next_offset from the previous page).
- `query` (string): Search benchmark names, ids, aliases and publishers ("swe-bench", "arc", "epoch").

### `get_benchmark` (~98 tokens)

Benchmark details

One benchmark: what it measures, unit, publisher and source, whether and how much it counts in the BenchLeader Index, status and caveats, and its top models (one row per model, best result first).

Input parameters:

- `benchmark` (string, required): Benchmark id ("gpqa_diamond"), name ("SWE-bench Verified"), alias or page URL.
- `limit` (integer): How many top models to return (at most 25).

### `about_benchleader` (~44 tokens)

About BenchLeader

What BenchLeader is, how the BenchLeader Index is computed, the current method version, data date and update cadence, coverage counts, licence and how to cite it.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-benchleader-benchleader/www#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 68
- 2026-11-04: 67
- 2026-11-03: 67
- 2026-11-02: 66
- 2026-11-01: 66
- 2026-10-31: 65

## Common questions

### What is the BenchLeader MCP server?

BenchLeader is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.benchleader/benchleader. Daily LLM leaderboard from independent benchmarks: ranks, scores, prices, speed and comparisons. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://www.benchleader.com/mcp).

### Is the BenchLeader MCP server safe to use?

BenchLeader scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the BenchLeader MCP server expose?

BenchLeader exposes 7 tools: get_leaderboard, search_models, get_model, compare_models, list_benchmarks, and 2 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 905 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the BenchLeader MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to BenchLeader without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the BenchLeader MCP server still maintained?

BenchLeader is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the BenchLeader MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 13 checks on BenchLeader, covering TLS certificate, Authorization, HTTPS, HSTS header and 9 more. Supply Chain Security and Provenance & Transparency do not apply to a hosted endpoint, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://www.benchleader.com/mcp
- Website: https://www.benchleader.com/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-benchleader-benchleader/www.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-benchleader-benchleader/www/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-benchleader-benchleader/www.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-benchleader-benchleader/www