Models tested 12
Labs 5
Top-tier ties 4
Price spread 54×
GunnerBench · the periodical About · The Ronin Advisory Group LLC

A periodical from The Ronin Advisory Group

GunnerBench

A scoreboard for model behavior under controlled variation. Each issue is a multi-page investigation that does the thing a leaderboard cannot: it shows the work — the actual prompts, and the models' actual answers.

Issues

The unit of analysis is the diff between cells, not any single score — change-detection, not absolute measurement. Same tasks, same rubric, judged the same way; what we publish is the difference.

01 Issue No. 1

Everyone Passed. Now What?

In about two years, expert legal reasoning went from a frontier capability to a commodity. Four models now write a perfect 20/20 bar-exam memorandum — and the price of that identical grade spans roughly fifty-four times, from eighteen cents to nearly ten dollars. When capability stops being the variable, price and trust become the whole question. We prove it by showing the work.

▸ Current issue June 2026 3 essays · 12 models · channel-corrected

02 Issue No. 2

MikeOSS versus the unmodified prompt

A performance ranking of the MikeOSS tool against the same models prompted directly, on identical tasks.

In preparation

03 Issue No. 3

The security of MikeOSS

A look at the security posture of MikeOSS and its current variants.

In preparation

What this is

GunnerBench is published as findings, not released as a product. The reader we have in mind is the legal professional — sophisticated, skeptical, and answerable to someone who is counting on the decision. A leaderboard hands that reader a number. A periodical hands them the memorandum the number was built from, so they can read the lawyering themselves and decide what to trust.

Each issue follows the same discipline: a battery of tasks held constant across every model, a single judge, channel-corrected costs, and the artifacts published in full. The apparatus is in service of the knowledge, and the knowledge is what we put on the page.

GunnerBench is built and operated by The Ronin Advisory Group LLC.

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