Who leads the Atari 2600 benchmark?

go-explore currently leads Atari 2600 with a score of 40000 on Mean Human-Normalized Score.

What is the state-of-the-art score on Atari 2600?

The state-of-the-art result on Atari 2600 is 40000 (Mean Human-Normalized Score), achieved by go-explore as of 2026.

How many models are tracked on Atari 2600?

Codesota tracks 16 models on Atari 2600.

When was the Atari 2600 leaderboard last updated?

The Atari 2600 leaderboard on Codesota includes results through 2026.

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Farama Foundation / DeepMind

Atari 2600.

Name: Atari 2600 Benchmark Results
Creator: Farama Foundation / DeepMind
Published: 2026-01-01
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Suite of 57 Atari 2600 games. Standard benchmark for deep reinforcement learning agents.

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§ 01 · Leaderboard

Results by metric.

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Mean Human-Normalized Score

Mean HNS across games. Human baseline = 100. Scores >100 exceed average human performance.

Higher is better

Trust tiers for Mean Human-Normalized Scoreverifiedpapervendorcommunityunverified

Muted rows were not state of the art when published — an earlier or same-year result already scored better.

Rank	Model	Trust	Score	Year	Links	Fix
01	go-explore Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	40000	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
02	agent57 Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	4731.3	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
03	MEME Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	verified	4087	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
04	bbos-1 Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	1100	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
05	gdi-h3 Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	950	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
06	dreamerv3 Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	840	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
07	muzero Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	731	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
08	EfficientZero V2 Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	242.8	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
09	rainbow-dqn Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	231	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
10	BBF (Bigger, Better, Faster) Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	224.7	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
11	DIAMOND Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	145.9	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
12	STORM Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	126.7	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
13	Simulus Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	110	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
14	DART Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	102.2	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
15	human-gamer Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	100	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?
16	dqn Fetched from CodeSOTA API on 2026-04-20	vendor	79	2026	Source ↗	Looks wrong?

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