Benchmark Almanac

SWE Atlas Refactoring

GPT-6 Astra 59% leads since Sep 2026 Not in model cards

Coding agents refactor code in 70 tasks in real repositories with internet access cut off. Tests and software-quality rubrics grade the result.

One of three SWE Atlas leaderboards, added last in May 2026.

In the authors’ words

We introduce SWE Atlas, a benchmark suite for coding agents spanning three professional software engineering workflows: Codebase Q&A (124 tasks), Test Writing (90 tasks), and Refactoring (70 tasks). SWE Atlas differs from prior SWE benchmarks in three key ways: it targets underrepresented but practically important task categories, uses comprehensive category-specific evaluation protocols, and adopts under-specified, agentic task formulations that better reflect real-world usage. Its evaluation framework combines programmatic checks with rubric-based assessment. This goes beyond functional correctness, evaluating software engineering quality, including test and refactor completeness, maintainability, reusable abstractions, and codebase hygiene. We evaluate a range of frontier and open-weight models on SWE Atlas and find that GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.7 achieve the strongest overall performance, while even the best open-weight models score poorly. Our analysis suggests that top models rely on extensive codebase exploration and runtime-driven reasoning. However, even top models consistently struggle with subtle edge cases, complex runtime analysis, and adherence to software engineering best practices. Overall, SWE Atlas provides a complementary evaluation suite for measuring both correctness and engineering quality in coding agents.

Abstract of SWE Atlas: Benchmarking Coding Agents Beyond Issue Resolution (arXiv:2605.08366, CC0)
Made by Scale AI Released May 2026 Fixing real repositories All tasks public Last model added Sep 2026 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
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-6 Astra leads with 59% 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 xhigh 59%
  2. 2 Claude Fable 5.1 xhigh 56.7%
  3. 3 Claude Fable 5 xhigh 54.8%
  4. 4 Claude Opus 4.7 48.6%
  5. 5 Claude Opus 4.8 46.7%
  6. 6 GPT-5.5 xhigh 44.8%
  7. 7 Gemini 3.8 Flash 44.8%
  8. 8 GPT-5.4 xhigh 44.3%
  9. 9 GPT-5.3 Codex xhigh 42.4%
  10. 10 GLM-5.2 42.4%
  11. 11 Claude Opus 4.6 35.6%
  12. 12 Gemini 3.1 Pro 33.8%
  13. 13 Claude Sonnet 4.6 32.2%
  14. 14 GLM-5 24.2%
  15. 15 Kimi K2.5 20.9%
  16. 16 MiniMax-M2.5 19.5%
  17. 17 Gemini 3 Flash 10%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-6 Astra 59% xhigh, Codex Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
2 Claude Fable 5.1 56.7% xhigh, Claude Code Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
3 Claude Fable 5 54.8% xhigh, Claude Code Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
4 Claude Opus 4.7 48.6% Claude Code Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
5 Claude Opus 4.8 46.7% Claude Code May 2026 Official leaderboard
6 GPT-5.5 44.8% xhigh, Codex Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
7 Gemini 3.8 Flash 44.8% mini-SWE-agent Sep 2026 Official leaderboard
8 GPT-5.4 44.3% xhigh, Codex Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
9 GPT-5.3 Codex 42.4% xhigh, Codex Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
10 GLM-5.2 42.4% mini-SWE-agent Jun 2026 Official leaderboard
11 Claude Opus 4.6 35.6% Claude Code Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
12 Gemini 3.1 Pro 33.8% Gemini CLI Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
13 Claude Sonnet 4.6 32.2% Claude Code Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
14 GLM-5 24.2% mini-SWE-agent Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
15 Kimi K2.5 20.9% mini-SWE-agent Jan 2026 Official leaderboard
16 MiniMax-M2.5 19.5% mini-SWE-agent Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
17 Gemini 3 Flash 10% mini-SWE-agent Dec 2025 Official leaderboard

4 models have held number one since its release in May 2026

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

Anthropic OpenAI
Own leaderboard Not tested since Sep 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 Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6 Astra Claude Fable 5 Claude Opus 4.7 GPT-5.4 Kimi K2.5 Gemini 3 Flash 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-6 Astra Claude Opus 4.7

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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