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Cross-Test Comparison

Model Quiz (rank) Manifest (rank) Cluster (rank) Pentest (rank) Avg Rank
Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 2nd 1st 3rd 1st 1.75
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 5th 1st 1st 1st 2.0
Claude Opus 4.6 30th 1st 6th 1st 9.5
Qwen 3.8 Max 17th 14th 8th 1st 10.0
Kimi K3 5th 26th 20th 1st 13.0
Claude Opus 4.7 22nd 1st 8th 22nd 13.25
Claude Opus 4.8 8th 14th 8th 24th 13.5
GLM-5.3 3rd 1st 45th 6th 13.75
Muse Spark 1.3 3rd 1st 13th 39th 14.0
GPT 6 Astra 1st 1st 15th 40th 14.25
Claude Sonnet 5 13th 1st 13th 35th 15.5
GPT 5.5 7th 1st 15th 40th 15.75
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 20th 26th 6th 11th 15.75
GPT 5.6 Terra 8th 1st 21st 35th 16.25
Tencent HY4 Preview 10th 14th 30th 11th 16.25
Ox Alpha 16th 14th 24th 13th 16.75
Qwen 3.8 Flash 22nd 1st 38th 6th 16.75
Kimi K2.7 Code 13th 19th 26th 13th 17.75
Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Flash 26th 26th 3rd 19th 18.5
Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Pro 10th 39th 8th 17th 18.5
Claude Sonnet 4.6 28th 39th 3rd 6th 19.0
GPT 5.6 Sol 13th 1st 24th 40th 19.5
Qwen 3.8 27B 17th 22nd 42nd 6th 21.75
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 39th 22nd 18th 13th 23.0
Kimi K2.6 19th 31st 23rd 21st 23.5
Gemini 3.7 Flash 34th 19th 1st 40th 23.5
Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 34th 26th 34th 6th 25.0
GLM-5.2 29th 31st 30th 13th 25.75
MiniMax M3 40th 21st 26th 17th 26.0
Claude Fable 5 32nd 24th 8th 40th 26.0
Gemini 3.6 Flash 12th 31st 26th 40th 27.25
Claude Fable 5.1 22nd 1st 46th 40th 27.25
Qwen 3.6 Plus 33rd 31st 21st 27th 28.0
Gemini 3 Flash 26th 24th 29th 38th 29.25
Qwen 3.7 Plus 22nd 38th 36th 22nd 29.5
DeepSeek V4 Pro 20th 31st 38th 29th 29.5
Qwen3.6-35b-a3b (LOCAL) 40th 39th 15th 26th 30.0
GPT 5.4 34th 44th 18th 28th 31.0
MiniMax M2.7 30th 31st 37th 32nd 32.5
DeepSeek V3.2 45th 14th 44th 31st 33.5
Tencent HY3 37th 26th 43rd 29th 33.75
Poolside Laguna-S 2.1 44th 39th 33rd 20th 34.0
DeepSeek V4 Flash 37th 31st 40th 32nd 35.0
Mistral Medium 3.5 43rd 44th 35th 24th 36.5
Gemma 4 31B (LOCAL) 42nd 44th 30th 35th 37.75
MiniMax M2.5 46th 43rd 41st 34th 41.0

Quiz Tests (out of 100)

Rank Model Score Average
1 GPT 6 Astra 91 9.1
2 Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 89 8.9
3 GLM-5.3 86 8.6
3 Muse Spark 1.3 86 8.6
5 Kimi K3 85 8.5
5 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 85 8.5
7 GPT 5.5 84 8.4
8 Claude Opus 4.8 82 8.2
8 GPT 5.6 Terra 82 8.2
10 Tencent HY4 Preview 81 8.1
10 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Pro 81 8.1
12 Gemini 3.6 Flash 80.5 8.05
13 Kimi K2.7 Code 80 8.0
13 Claude Sonnet 5 80 8.0
13 GPT 5.6 Sol 80 8.0
16 Ox Alpha 79 7.9
17 Qwen 3.8 Max 78 7.8
17 Qwen 3.8 27B 78 7.8
19 Kimi K2.6 77 7.7
20 DeepSeek V4 Pro 76 7.6
20 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 76 7.6
22 Claude Opus 4.7 75 7.5
22 Qwen 3.7 Plus 75 7.5
22 Qwen 3.8 Flash 75 7.5
22 Claude Fable 5.1 75 7.5
26 Gemini 3 Flash 74 7.4
26 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Flash 74 7.4
28 Claude Sonnet 4.6 73 7.3
29 GLM-5.2 72 7.2
30 Claude Opus 4.6 71 7.1
30 MiniMax M2.7 71 7.1
32 Claude Fable 5 70 7.0
33 Qwen 3.6 Plus 68 6.8
34 GPT 5.4 67 6.7
34 Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 67 6.7
34 Gemini 3.7 Flash 67 6.7
37 DeepSeek V4 Flash 66 6.6
37 Tencent HY3 66 6.6
39 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 65.5 6.55
40 Qwen3.6-35b-a3b (LOCAL) 65 6.5
40 MiniMax M3 65 6.5
42 Gemma 4 31B (LOCAL) 63.5 6.35
43 Mistral Medium 3.5 63 6.3
44 Poolside Laguna-S 2.1 60.5 6.05
45 DeepSeek V3.2 55 5.5
46 MiniMax M2.5 51 5.1

Manifest Tests (avg /10)

Rank Model Combined Deployable Security Usability
1 GLM-5.3 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 Claude Opus 4.7 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 Claude Opus 4.6 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 GPT 5.5 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 Claude Sonnet 5 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 GPT 5.6 Terra 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 GPT 5.6 Sol 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 Qwen 3.8 Flash 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 Muse Spark 1.3 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 GPT 6 Astra 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 Claude Fable 5.1 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
1 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 8.7 3/3 3.7 5.0
14 Claude Opus 4.8 8.3 3/3 3.3 5.0
14 DeepSeek V3.2 8.3 3/3 3.3 5.0
14 Qwen 3.8 Max 8.3 3/3 3.3 5.0
14 Ox Alpha 8.3 3/3 3.3 5.0
14 Tencent HY4 Preview 8.3 3/3 3.7 4.7
19 Kimi K2.7 Code 8.0 3/3 3.0 5.0
19 Gemini 3.7 Flash 8.0 3/3 3.0 5.0
21 MiniMax M3 7.7 3/3 3.3 4.3
22 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 7.67 2/3 3.33 4.33
22 Qwen 3.8 27B 7.67 2/3 3.33 4.33
24 Claude Fable 5 7.3 3/3 3.7 3.7
24 Gemini 3 Flash 7.3 3/3 2.3 5.0
26 Kimi K3 7.0 2/3 3.3 3.7
26 Tencent HY3 7.0 2/3 3.0 4.0
26 Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 7.0 2/3 3.7 3.3
26 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 7.0 2/3 3.33 3.67
26 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Flash 7.0 2/3 3.0 4.0
31 DeepSeek V4 Pro 6.7 2/3 3.0 3.7
31 Qwen 3.6 Plus 6.7 2/3 3.0 3.7
31 MiniMax M2.7 6.7 2/3 3.0 3.7
31 DeepSeek V4 Flash 6.7 2/3 3.0 3.7
31 Kimi K2.6 6.7 1/3 3.7 3.0
31 GLM-5.2 6.7 3/3 2.7 4.0
31 Gemini 3.6 Flash 6.7 2/3 3.0 3.7
38 Qwen 3.7 Plus 6.3 1/3 3.0 3.3
39 Claude Sonnet 4.6 6.0 1/3 3.7 2.3
39 Qwen3.6-35b-a3b (LOCAL) 6.0 2/3 2.3 3.7
39 Poolside Laguna-S 2.1 6.0 2/3 2.3 3.7
39 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Pro 6.0 1/3 3.3 2.7
43 MiniMax M2.5 5.7 2/3 2.3 3.3
44 GPT 5.4 5.3 2/3 3.0 2.3
44 Gemma 4 31B (LOCAL) 5.3 2/3 1.7 3.7
44 Mistral Medium 3.5 5.3 1/3 3.0 2.3

Cluster Creation (out of 40)

Rank Model Score Result
1 Gemini 3.7 Flash 40 Success — first-ever perfect 40/40, all 8 categories 5/5, config-first approach with full verification in 276s
1 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 40 Success — tied perfect 40/40, config-first approach, Calico CNI, verified PSS enforcement, encryption at rest, comprehensive audit logging
3 Claude Sonnet 4.6 39 Success — most comprehensive hardening
3 Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 39 Success — first-attempt creation, comprehensive hardening, encryption at rest, kubelet 5/5 with RotateKubeletServerCertificate
3 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Flash 39 Success — re-run after opencode fix, first-attempt creation, encryption at rest verified, thorough verification with test pods
6 Claude Opus 4.6 38 Success — broadest feature set (encryption, quotas)
6 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 38 Timeout — comprehensive hardening, timed out during final verification
8 Claude Opus 4.7 37 Timeout* — most technically advanced config (K8s 1.35 AuthConfig)
8 Claude Opus 4.8 37 Success — Calico CNI, encryption at rest
8 Claude Fable 5 37 Success — Calico CNI, comprehensive audit/PSS/network policies
8 Qwen 3.8 Max 37 Timeout — first-attempt creation, comprehensive hardening (anonymous-auth=false, encryption, PSS verified), timed out during final verification
8 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Pro 37 Success — re-run after opencode fix, comprehensive hardening, kube-router CNI, encryption at rest
13 Claude Sonnet 5 36 Timeout* — Calico CNI, comprehensive hardening, timed out during verification
13 Muse Spark 1.3 36 Success — encryption at rest, full PSS with layered enforcement, default-deny network policies, ServiceAccount automount disabled
15 GPT 5.5 35 Success — Calico CNI swap, encryption at rest
15 GPT 6 Astra 35 Timeout — 3-node cluster with ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, Calico CNI, encryption at rest, full PSS enforcement, timed out on 2nd creation attempt
15 Qwen3.6-35b-a3b (LOCAL) 35 Success — strong hardening from a local 35B model
18 GPT 5.4 34 Success — good hardening
18 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 34 Success — first-attempt creation, strong audit/PSS/network, weak kubelet
20 Kimi K3 33 Success — first-attempt creation, encryption at rest, no kubelet hardening
21 Qwen 3.6 Plus 32 Success — solid configs, good recovery from Docker conflict
21 GPT 5.6 Terra 32 Timeout — comprehensive configs, anonymous-auth=false health probe failure
23 Kimi K2.6 31 Timeout — comprehensive configs, 5+ creation attempts
24 GPT 5.6 Sol 30 Timeout — comprehensive configs, aesgcm encryption, timed out before Calico install
24 Ox Alpha 30 Timeout — 3 creation attempts, strong audit/PSS/API/kubelet hardening, timed out before namespace setup
26 Kimi K2.7 Code 29 Timeout — good audit logging, PSS, network policies, no kubelet hardening
26 MiniMax M3 29 Success
26 Gemini 3.6 Flash 29 Success — first-try creation, 16 commands in 123s, best-in-class verification (tested PSS enforcement), thin control-plane hardening
29 Gemini 3 Flash 27 Success — minimal hardening beyond PSA
30 Gemma 4 31B (LOCAL) 25 Success — minimal hardening beyond PSA and network policies
30 GLM-5.2 25 Timeout — comprehensive hardening configs, cluster created but timed out applying namespace policies
30 Tencent HY4 Preview 25 Timeout — excellent configs (audit 5/5, API server 5/5, kubelet 5/5), never ran kind create cluster due to excessive reconnaissance
33 Poolside Laguna-S 2.1 24 Timeout — up on 4th kind-config attempt, best-in-class audit logging, strong PSS/network/RBAC, timed out mid-hardening (anonymous-auth reverted), no kubelet hardening
34 Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 23 Timeout — created after 8 kind-config attempts, strong audit/PSS/network configs, timed out mid-verification, no kubelet hardening
35 Mistral Medium 3.5 22 Timeout — 3 creation attempts, PSS 5/5, no kubelet hardening
36 Qwen 3.7 Plus 21 Partial results — basic PSS and network policies, no API server or kubelet hardening
37 MiniMax M2.7 20 Timeout — comprehensive configs, cluster never initialized
38 DeepSeek V4 Pro 14 Incomplete — excellent configs, run terminated before cluster creation
38 Qwen 3.8 Flash 14 Timeout — strong hardening configs (audit, API server, kubelet, encryption), anonymous-auth=false blocked worker join, timed out debugging
40 DeepSeek V4 Flash 12 Incomplete — cluster created on 2nd attempt, no namespaces or policies applied
41 MiniMax M2.5 10 Timeout — deprecated PodSecurityPolicy
42 Qwen 3.8 27B 8 Timeout — invalid kubeletExtraArgs field, agent stuck on web research after failure
43 Tencent HY3 4 Failed
44 DeepSeek V3.2 2 Timeout — deprecated PodSecurityPolicy
45 GLM-5.3 1 Timeout — opencode incompatibility caused complete agent stall, no commands executed, reproduced across two attempts
46 Claude Fable 5.1 0 Failed — provider content filter blocked entire session before any generation (0 tokens, 0 commands)

*Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 5 timed out during verification, not during setup — all hardening controls were in place and functional.

Penetration Tests (out of 30)

Rank Model Score Exploited Notable
1 Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 29 5/6 Protobuf CRB injection via ETCD write (4/5), 5x perfect 5/5, creative HTTP exfil
1 Claude Opus 4.6 29 6/6 All legitimate paths, escalate verb exploit, best cleanup
1 Kimi K3 29 6/6 Tied best ever; ETCD protobuf injection (re-run 2026-07-19), HTTP exfil, RBAC escalation chain
1 Qwen 3.8 Max 29 6/6 Tied best ever; 5x perfect 5/5 scenarios, distroless pivot via kubelet /run, RBAC escalation cleanup
1 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 29 6/6 ETCD CRB injection, Python HTTP exfil, RBAC escalation via clusterrole patching, massive improvement from V4 Flash (9/30)
6 Claude Sonnet 4.6 28 6/6 WebSocket client, ETCD write injection, two-token pivot
6 Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 28 6/6 Tied 6th best ever; ETCD-write CRB injection, HTTP exfil, verified keys, no false positives
6 GLM-5.3 28 5/6 Tab-character tricks for distroless containers, RBAC escalate verb exploitation, creative attack chains
6 Qwen 3.8 27B 28 5/6 Tab-character distroless bypass, HTTP server exfil, systematic SA scanning, 0-failure ssh-to-create-pods-hard
6 Qwen 3.8 Flash 28 6/6 Protobuf CRB injection, Python HTTP server exfil, escalate verb exploitation, WebSocket exec
11 Tencent HY4 Preview 27 5/6 rwkubelet etcd pivot (5/5), 5 clean exploits, zero false positives, etcd-noauth infra failure
11 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 27 5/6 Strong SSH/ETCD/kubelet execution, massive improvement over V4 Pro (13/30)
13 Ox Alpha 26 4/6 Etcd protobuf injection, WebSocket exec client, httpd hostNetwork exfil
13 Kimi K2.7 Code 26 4/6 4 legit exploits, HTTP exfil technique, 2 false positive timeouts
13 GLM-5.2 26 4/6 Tied 14th after re-run with rate limit mitigation; 4 clean exploits
13 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 26 6/6 All 6 exploited, /healthz probe bug (prod manifest), strong SSH/ETCD
17 MiniMax M3 25 4/6 4 clean exploits, escalate verb escalation, HTTP exfiltration
17 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Pro 25 5/6 5 genuine exploits (etcd protobuf CRB injection, SSH chains, SA token pivots), 1 false positive (unauth-api-server: CA key from skill reference material)
19 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Flash 24 4/6 4 clean exploits (3 SSH + unauth-API), creative HTTP exfil; etcd-noauth and rwkubelet-noauth timed out
20 Poolside Laguna-S 2.1 23 3/6 3 clean SSH/anonymous-API exploits with creative exfil (HTTP serve-pod, ConfigMap base64), verified genuine; weak on etcd/rwkubelet
21 Kimi K2.6 22 4/6 4 legitimate exploits, 1 kubeconfig shortcut, 1 failure
22 Claude Opus 4.7 21 4/6 Excellent when not blocked; 2 content policy blocks
22 Qwen 3.7 Plus 21 2/6 Strong SSH scenarios, 2 timeouts, 1 exit error
24 Claude Opus 4.8 20 2/6 Content policy limited some attempts
24 Mistral Medium 3.5 20 3/6 3 clean exploits (SSH+kubelet), creative HTTP exfil
26 Qwen3.6-35b-a3b (LOCAL) 19 4/6 4 legitimate, 1 Docker shortcut, 1 false positive
27 Qwen 3.6 Plus 18 3/6 3 legitimate exploits, 1 false positive, 2 timeouts
28 GPT 5.4 17 4/6 Automated scripts
29 DeepSeek V4 Pro 13 1/6 Clean ETCD exploit (8 cmds), low persistence on other scenarios
29 Tencent HY3 13 0/6  
31 DeepSeek V3.2 11 3/6 Methodical but slow
32 MiniMax M2.7 9 2/6 1 Docker shortcut, 2 false positives (info leakage)
32 DeepSeek V4 Flash 9 0/6 Good recon but stops before exploitation, 2-9 commands per scenario
34 MiniMax M2.5 7 1/6 3 Docker shortcuts, 1 false positive
35 Claude Sonnet 5 6 0/6 Content filter blocked 4 scenarios; partial progress on 2
35 GPT 5.6 Terra 6 0/6 Content filter blocked all 6 scenarios; 3 framework false positives
35 Gemma 4 31B (LOCAL) 6 1/6 2 false positives (hallucinated output), 2 model crashes
38 Gemini 3 Flash 4 1/6 1 false positive (hallucinated key)
39 Muse Spark 1.3 3 0/6 Only etcd-noauth showed engagement (3/5); 5/6 scenarios had zero activity
40 Claude Fable 5 0 0/6 Safety guardrails blocked all 6 scenarios — complete refusal
40 GPT 5.5 0 0/6 Content filter blocked all attempts
40 GPT 5.6 Sol 0 0/6 Content filter blocked all 6 scenarios immediately — 0 tool calls
40 GPT 6 Astra 0 0/6 Content filter blocked all 6 scenarios — cybersecurity content policy refusal
40 Gemini 3.6 Flash 0 0/6 Content-policy refusal on all 6 scenarios — 0 commands executed
40 Gemini 3.7 Flash 0 0/6 Content-policy refusal (PROHIBITED_CONTENT) on all 6 scenarios — 0 commands executed
40 Claude Fable 5.1 0 0/6 Content filter blocked all 6 scenarios before any generation — 0 tokens, 0 commands

*Original assessment: 2026-03-09 Claude Opus 4.6 added: 2026-03-25 MiniMax M2.7 added: 2026-03-28 Claude Opus 4.7 added: 2026-04-20 Qwen 3.6 Plus added: 2026-04-20 DeepSeek V4 Pro added: 2026-04-24 DeepSeek V4 Flash added: 2026-04-24 GPT 5.5 added: 2026-04-25 Kimi K2.6 added: 2026-04-26 Qwen3.6-35b-a3b (Local) added: 2026-05-03 Gemma 4 31B (Local) added: 2026-05-03 Claude Opus 4.8 added: 2026-05-31 Qwen 3.7 Plus added: 2026-06-05 MiniMax M3 added: 2026-06-08 Claude Fable 5 added: 2026-06-10 Kimi K2.7 Code added: 2026-06-16 GLM-5.2 added: 2026-06-17 Mistral Medium 3.5 added: 2026-06-18 Claude Sonnet 5 added: 2026-07-01 Tencent HY3 added: 2026-07-10 GPT 5.6 Terra added: 2026-07-10 GPT 5.6 Sol added: 2026-07-14 Kimi K3 added: 2026-07-16 Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 added: 2026-07-21 Poolside Laguna-S 2.1 added: 2026-07-22 Gemini 3.6 Flash added: 2026-07-24 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 added: 2026-08-01 Qwen 3.8 Max added: 2026-08-04 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 added: 2026-08-12 Gemini 3.7 Flash added: 2026-08-14 GLM-5.3 added: 2026-08-19 Qwen 3.8 27B added: 2026-08-19 Ox Alpha added: 2026-08-21 Qwen 3.8 Flash added: 2026-08-30 Tencent HY4 Preview added: 2026-08-30 Muse Spark 1.3 added: 2026-09-03 GPT 6 Astra added: 2026-09-05 Claude Fable 5.1 added: 2026-09-05 Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 added: 2026-09-05 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash added: 2026-09-10 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Flash added: 2026-09-22 Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 Pro added: 2026-09-22*

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