Reviewed by Jonathan West · Updated Oct 3, 2026

AI Business Benchmarks: Which AI Actually Does the Job

The benchmark built for businesses, not researchers. We hand real jobs to every major AI and score one thing: could you send the result as-is?

Reviewed by Jonathan West · Updated Oct 3, 2026
Task

Marketing

4 jobs
AI Business Benchmarks — Marketing: the best AI for every job, how often the result was Done, what it cost, how often it Burned you, and whether to double-check it
JobUseDoneCostBurned youDoubleCheck It?

Ads & creative

4 jobs
AI Business Benchmarks — Ads & creative: the best AI for every job, how often the result was Done, what it cost, how often it Burned you, and whether to double-check it
JobUseDoneCostBurned youDoubleCheck It?

Sales

4 jobs
AI Business Benchmarks — Sales: the best AI for every job, how often the result was Done, what it cost, how often it Burned you, and whether to double-check it
JobUseDoneCostBurned youDoubleCheck It?

Customer service

4 jobs
AI Business Benchmarks — Customer service: the best AI for every job, how often the result was Done, what it cost, how often it Burned you, and whether to double-check it
JobUseDoneCostBurned youDoubleCheck It?

Bookkeeping & admin

4 jobs
AI Business Benchmarks — Bookkeeping & admin: the best AI for every job, how often the result was Done, what it cost, how often it Burned you, and whether to double-check it
JobUseDoneCostBurned youDoubleCheck It?

Hiring & staff

4 jobs
AI Business Benchmarks — Hiring & staff: the best AI for every job, how often the result was Done, what it cost, how often it Burned you, and whether to double-check it
JobUseDoneCostBurned youDoubleCheck It?

Scores updated Sep 30, 2026 · 24 jobs scored · 18 AIs tested · prices from the Layer3Labs model price ledger

The Layer3Labs AI Business Benchmarks test 12 AI models and 10 specialist tools on 63 business jobs: 24 everyday jobs every business has, and 39 specialist jobs from law firms, accounting practices, clinics, insurance agencies, construction firms and compliance teams. No existing AI benchmark measures this work.

How Every Job Is Graded

Every result lands on one of four grades, whether the job is a social post or a prior-authorization packet. It is the same test a business owner applies to work that comes back to their desk.

The four grades used in the AI Business Benchmarks
GradeWhat it means
DoneSend it. No edits.
FixUsable after five or ten minutes of edits.
RedoWrong. Do it yourself.
Burned youWrong in a way you would not have caught before it went out.

What We Measure

  • Done rate: how many times out of 100 the work comes back needing no edits.
  • Burned-you rate: how often the work comes back wrong in a way you would never catch: an invented figure, a policy you don't have, a case that doesn't exist. Every other benchmark scores what AI gets right. This one also scores what it gets wrong without telling you.
  • Cost per finished job: what one usable piece of work costs at published prices, counting the attempts you would throw away.
  • DoubleCheck It? Yes, skim or no. Each job runs five times in a row; if the AI doesn't slip and doesn't burn you, you can stop checking.
For AI labs: submit a model for scoring before launch and publish an official AI Business Benchmarks score on release day. Email partners@layer3labs.io with the model name and launch window.

How We Test

Every job comes with the inputs a real business would hand over: the messy invoices, the refund policy, the lease, the data room. Each AI gets the same inputs and the same instructions, five times. Jobs with a single right answer, like a spreadsheet total or a refund decision under a written policy, are graded mechanically. Every result is checked against the facts in its inputs, so anything invented is caught.

Prices come from each vendor's published rates, tracked on our AI model pricing page. When a price changes there, the cost on every job here changes with it.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The AI Business Benchmarks score AI models and tools on 63 real business jobs, such as writing a newsletter, deciding a refund, typing up invoices or abstracting a lease. Each job is scored on one question: could you send the result without fixing it? The benchmarks are published by Layer3Labs.
  • Those benchmarks measure coding puzzles, exam questions and which chat answer people prefer. None of them measure whether AI can do ordinary business work to a standard you would send to a customer. The AI Business Benchmarks test the jobs a business actually hands off, graded the way a business owner judges work.
  • The Done rate is how many times out of 100 the work comes back needing no edits at all. Every job on this page states exactly what Done means for that job, so the standard is the same for every AI tested.
  • The Burned-you rate is how often the work comes back wrong in a way you would not catch before it went out: an invented figure, a policy your business does not have, a case or citation that does not exist. It is the number that decides whether you can hand a job off without checking every result.
  • Cost comes from each vendor's published token prices, tracked on our AI model pricing page, applied to the size of each job. Cost per finished piece of work also counts the attempts you would throw away, so a cheap model that fails often does not look cheaper than it is.
  • 12 AI models, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, GLM, Mistral, MiniMax, Llama and Amazon Nova, plus 10 specialist tools such as ElevenLabs, Veo, Sora, HeyGen, Harvey and Abridge. Specialist tools are tested only on the jobs they are built for.
  • Every job is run five times on every AI. That shows whether a result is repeatable, which is what decides whether you can stop checking the work, not whether it got lucky once.
  • Yes. AI labs can submit a model for scoring ahead of launch and receive an official score they can cite on release day. Email partners@layer3labs.io with the model name and launch window.
  • No. The clinic jobs cover paperwork only: visit notes, coding, prior authorizations, credentialing and appeals. No job asks an AI to diagnose, triage or recommend treatment.