Benchmark Almanac

EdgeBench

Claude Opus 4.8 51.3 leads since Jul 2026 Not in model cards

Agents iterate for up to 12 hours on 134 executable real-world tasks with multi-level feedback. Scores are tracked at 2 hour steps to measure learning from the environment.

51 of the 134 tasks are open source. Tasks fall in six groups: scientific and ML, systems and SE, optimization, knowledge, formal and games. The harness is called SForge.

In the authors’ words

Pretraining scaling laws reveal that model capability improves predictably with data and compute. But learning from real world environments after deployment remains far less understood. Analyzing roughly 38,000 hours of agent interaction with the environment across 134 real world tasks, we find, to the best of our knowledge, the first evidence that overall performance during environment learning follows a log-sigmoid scaling law with remarkably high precision, reaching R^2 = 0.998. Across model generations, we also find that agent learning speed roughly doubles every three months. This discovery stems from EdgeBench, a suite of 134 real world tasks with ultra-long horizons, spanning scientific discovery, software engineering, combinatorial optimization, professional knowledge work, formal mathematics, and interactive games. Each task sustains at least 12 hours of continuous agent operation under rich, multilevel feedback, and is built through substantial expert effort. We publicly release 51 tasks and our full evaluation framework to accelerate the study of how agents learn from real world experience.

Abstract of EdgeBench: Unveiling Scaling Laws of Learning from Real-World Environments (arXiv:2607.05155, CC0)
Made by ByteDance Seed Released Jul 2026 Long terminal sessions Public tasks plus a private test set Last model added May 2026 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
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.
5
Models scored on its own leaderboard

Claude Opus 4.8 leads with 51.3 among models released by May 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 May 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 Claude Opus 4.8 51.3
  2. 2 GPT-5.5 48.4
  3. 3 GPT-5.4 39.3
  4. 4 GLM-5.1 37.4
  5. 5 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 31.0
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Claude Opus 4.8 51.3 May 2026 Official leaderboard
2 GPT-5.5 48.4 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
3 GPT-5.4 39.3 Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
4 GLM-5.1 37.4 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
5 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 31.0 Apr 2026 Official leaderboard

Number one over time

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

Anthropic
Own leaderboard Not tested since Jul 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
30.0 35.0 40.0 45.0 50.0 55.0 2026 30.0 35.0 40.0 45.0 50.0 55.0 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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