Benchmark Almanac

E-Commerce Bench

GPT-5.6 Sol 14.3 leads since Aug 2026 Not in model cards

Agents start with 100,000 yuan and run up to four online stores for 365 simulated days on real market data. They source, negotiate with suppliers, price, promote and manage cash. Scored by end-of-year assets over the opening balance.

Six more dimensions are scored separately, including negotiation and fraud avoidance. Each model runs 5 episodes. The paper tests 18 models and the repo table lists 21. The qwen.ai post is dated 2026-09-03.

In the authors’ words

Long-horizon agentic tasks go beyond chaining short tasks over more interaction turns. Their evolving dynamic environments and long-range dependencies require Large Language Models (LLMs) to continually explore, learn from experience, and adapt their policies over thousands of steps. We introduce E-Commerce Bench, the first open-source benchmark that integrates multi-round counterpart negotiation and dynamic events into a year-long business operation. Over a 365-day year, an LLM agent concurrently runs multiple online stores, researching the market, negotiating with suppliers to source inventory, optimizing sales strategies, fulfilling orders, handling returns, and managing cash flow to maximize its end-of-year total assets. To construct a realistic merchant-side operating environment, the product and supplier data are derived from a real e-commerce platform, while a year-long calendar of promotions, natural disasters, and supply-chain shocks continually reshapes demand. For reproducibility, both sides of the market are deterministic: customer purchases and returns follow a fixed demand model, while a negotiation kernel determines supplier pricing, concessions, and decisions, with an LLM used only to verbalize them. We evaluate 18 frontier models across seven dimensions, including year-end assets, and find that no single model dominates. GPT-5.6 Sol earns the most, growing the 100,000 opening stake into 1,431,425, yet it ranks 16th of 18 on fraud avoidance and trails Fable5 in operational efficiency. Among open-weight models, Qwen3.8-Max-Preview leads with 416,252, 38% above GLM 5.2 (high), and achieves the strongest learning over the horizon, progressively bargaining down prices across repeated orders. Our code is available at https://github.com/QwenLM/E-CommerceBench.

Abstract of E-Commerce Bench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Autonomous Business Operation (arXiv:2608.30730, CC0)
Made by Qwen Team , Alibaba Group , with Taobao and Tmall Group Released Aug 2026 Running a business All tasks public Last model added Aug 2026 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
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Models scored on its own leaderboard

GPT-5.6 Sol leads with 14.3 among models released by Aug 2026

Best score per model from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on 2 Nov 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best.

The newest model with a score here came out in Aug 2026, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 GPT-5.6 Sol max 14.3
  2. 2 Claude Fable 5 max 8.05
  3. 3 GPT-5.5 7.02
  4. 4 Claude Opus 4.8 max 4.98
  5. 5 Qwen 3.8 Max 4.72
  6. 6 GLM-5.3 max 3.91
  7. 7 GLM-5.2 high 3.01
  8. 8 Kimi K3 2.65
  9. 9 Claude Opus 4.7 max 2.59
  10. 10 Claude Opus 4.6 max 2.58
  11. 11 GLM-5.3-Flash max 2.58
  12. 12 GLM-5.1 2.26
  13. 13 DeepSeek-V4-Pro max 1.90
  14. 14 Gemini 3.5 Flash 1.90
  15. 15 Qwen3.7-Max 1.65
  16. 16 Gemini 3.1 Pro 1.30
  17. 17 Kimi K2.6 0.70
  18. 18 Qwen 3.6 Plus 0.47
  19. 19 Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) 0.01
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-5.6 Sol 14.3 max Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
2 Claude Fable 5 8.05 max Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
3 GPT-5.5 7.02 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
4 Claude Opus 4.8 4.98 max May 2026 Official leaderboard
5 Qwen 3.8 Max 4.72 Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
6 GLM-5.3 3.91 max Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
7 GLM-5.2 3.01 high Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
8 Kimi K3 2.65 Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
9 Claude Opus 4.7 2.59 max Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
10 Claude Opus 4.6 2.58 max Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
11 GLM-5.3-Flash 2.58 max Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
12 GLM-5.1 2.26 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
13 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 1.90 max Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
14 Gemini 3.5 Flash 1.90 May 2026 Official leaderboard
15 Qwen3.7-Max 1.65 May 2026 Official leaderboard
16 Gemini 3.1 Pro 1.30 Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
17 Kimi K2.6 0.70 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
18 Qwen 3.6 Plus 0.47 Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
19 Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) 0.01 Feb 2026 Official leaderboard

Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

OpenAI
Own leaderboard Not tested since Aug 2026

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard
0.00 5.00 10.0 15.0 2026 0.00 5.00 10.0 15.0 2026

No lab model card reports it yet

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.

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