Benchmark Almanac

Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0

GPT-6 Astra 69.2% leads since Oct 2026 Not in model cards

Agents work for up to 3 hours per task on 77 container tasks, including 30 tasks that rebuild a scientific tool from its outputs. Hidden verifiers give partial-credit rewards.

It keeps the 46 original tasks and adds 31 new ones. The maker says scores are not comparable with the July 2026 snapshot, which used a 90 minute budget. 15 models in the October 2026 results.

In the authors’ words

AI agents have become capable of autonomously completing short, well-specified tasks. However, existing terminal benchmarks largely focus on simple problems that finish within minutes and are evaluated only by their final outcome. This setup overlooks intermediate progress and partial solutions, yielding sparse reward signals and an incomplete picture of agent capability. We introduce Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench, a terminal benchmark of 46 long-horizon tasks spanning nine categories, including experiment reproduction, software engineering, multimodal analysis, interactive games, and scientific computing. Each task follows a Terminal-Bench-style setup with a reference solution or simulation engine, but is further decomposed into fine-grained graded subtasks. This design enables dense intermediate rewards and partial credit, allowing evaluation to capture not only whether an agent reaches the final goal, but also how far it progresses on open-ended workflows. Tasks in Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench typically require hundreds of episodes and minutes to hours of execution, stressing long-horizon planning, long-context management, and iterative debugging rather than one-shot problem solving. We evaluate 15 frontier models and find that agents consume on average 9.9M tokens per task, with roughly 231 episodes and 85.3 minutes of execution time per run, making Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench more demanding than prior terminal-based benchmarks. Even the strongest tested model achieves 15.2% pass@1 at a partial-reward threshold of 0.95 and 10.9% at a perfect-reward threshold of 1.0, while the mean pass rate across models is 4.3% and 1.7% under the two thresholds, respectively. These results reveal headroom for improvement. We further analyze failure modes and error patterns, and release Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench to support future progress on long-horizon terminal agents.

Abstract of Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench: Testing the Limits of Agents on Long-Horizon Terminal Tasks with Dense Reward-Based Grading (arXiv:2607.08964, CC0)
Made by Tencent HY + university collaborators (Zongxia Li et al.) Released Oct 2026 Long terminal sessions Public tasks plus a private test set Last model added Sep 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.
15
Models scored on its own leaderboard

GPT-6 Astra leads with 69.2% among models released by Sep 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 Sep 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-6 Astra 69.2%
  2. 2 GPT-5.6 Sol 67.2%
  3. 3 Kimi K3 56.8%
  4. 4 GLM-5.3 54.2%
  5. 5 Tencent Hy4 preview 53.2%
  6. 6 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 52.9%
  7. 7 DeepSeek-V4-Flash 52.4%
  8. 8 GLM-5.2 50.3%
  9. 9 Gemini 3.8 Flash 47.4%
  10. 10 MiniMax-M3 46.9%
  11. 11 Seed2.1 Pro 46.4%
  12. 12 Qwen 3.8 Max 43.5%
  13. 13 Kimi K2.6 42%
  14. 14 Grok 4.6 42%
  15. 15 Gemini 3.1 Pro 41.3%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-6 Astra 69.2% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
2 GPT-5.6 Sol 67.2% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
3 Kimi K3 56.8% Jul 2026 Official leaderboard
4 GLM-5.3 54.2% Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
5 Tencent Hy4 preview 53.2% Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
6 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 52.9% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
7 DeepSeek-V4-Flash 52.4% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
8 GLM-5.2 50.3% Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
9 Gemini 3.8 Flash 47.4% Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
10 MiniMax-M3 46.9% Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
11 Seed2.1 Pro 46.4% Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
12 Qwen 3.8 Max 43.5% Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
13 Kimi K2.6 42% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
14 Grok 4.6 42% Aug 2026 Official leaderboard
15 Gemini 3.1 Pro 41.3% 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 1 leader
GPT-6 Astra 69.2%

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 Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6 Astra GPT-5.6 Sol DeepSeek-V4-Pro Kimi K2.6 Gemini 3.1 Pro 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6 Astra DeepSeek-V4-Pro

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.

Versions

We switch the top row to each new version when it comes out. Open it for one row per version. An old version stays in play while people still test it, so whoever first takes it past 85% gets credit for closing it out.

Anthropic xAI OpenAI DeepSeek
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0 5 leaders
GPT-6 Astra 69.2%
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) Replaced by 2.0, Oct 2026
GPT-6 Astra 69.2%

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