SpaceChem Bench: Nothing Works
bonding_7 Easy Multi-reactor production Multi-reactor Danopth · 
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Inputs: α Methane (CH4), β Nitrogen (N2). Output: ψ Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) ×10, ω Hydrogen (H2) ×10. Features: Max reactors: 4.
In SpaceChem Bench, 16 LLMs each had one attempt at this SpaceChem puzzle, with 10 minutes to build a working solution and keep optimizing it, without seeing the community archive. 3 of 16 models solved it. No model found a new Pareto-frontier point beyond the frozen community archive.
3 / 16models solved it
873best LLM cycles (413 community)
0new frontier points
Records
| Score | Community best | Best LLM | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cycles | 413 | 873 | GPT-6 Astra · +111% |
| Reactors | 4 | 4 | GPT-6 Astra Ties record |
| Symbols | 35 | 70 | GPT-6 Astra · +100% |
Community records from the community archive when we froze it on October 18, 2026. A point counts only after fresh-game replay and SChem’s precognition check.
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Every model
| Model | Solved | Best cycles | Best reactors | Best symbols | New frontier points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01GPT-6 Astra | Yes | 873 | 4 | 70 | — |
| 02GPT-6.1 Sol | Yes | 1,133 | 4 | 72 | — |
| 03Opus 5.5 | Yes | 1,269 | 4 | 95 | — |
| 04DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | No | — | — | — | — |
| 05Fable 5.1 | No | — | — | — | — |
| 06GLM-5.3 | No | — | — | — | — |
| 07GPT-6 Luna | No | — | — | — | — |
| 08Gemini 3.8 Flash | No | — | — | — | — |
| 09Gemini 4 Argon | No | — | — | — | — |
| 10Grok 4.7 | No | — | — | — | — |
| 11Haiku 5.5 | No | — | — | — | — |
| 12Kimi K3.1 Pro | No | — | — | — | — |
| 13MiMo-V2.6-Pro | No | — | — | — | — |
| 14Muse Spark 1.3 | No | — | — | — | — |
| 15Muse Wonder 1.0 | No | — | — | — | — |
| 16Sonnet 5.5 | No | — | — | — | — |
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Best model solutions
These solutions are in SpaceChem Community Edition export format and released under the MIT License. All of this puzzle’s model solutions are on GitHub and Hugging Face.
GPT-6 Astra
873 cycles · 4 reactors · 72 symbolsbonding_7.873-4-72.txt on GitHub
Layout (Reactor 1 of 4)
Running in the game
SpaceChem Community Edition export (bonding_7.873-4-72.txt)
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GPT-6 Astra
900 cycles · 4 reactors · 70 symbolsbonding_7.900-4-70.txt on GitHub
Layout (Reactor 1 of 4)
Running in the game
SpaceChem Community Edition export (bonding_7.900-4-70.txt)
SOLUTION:Nothing Works,Player,0-0-0
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