SWE Atlas Test Writing
Coding agents write production-quality tests for 90 tasks in real repositories with internet access cut off. Programmatic checks and rubrics grade the tests.
One of three SWE Atlas leaderboards. Labs report it apart from Codebase QnA, for example as SWE Atlas-Test Writing.
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.
- 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.
Claude Fable 5.1 leads with 67% 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:
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- Claude Sonnet 5.5
- and 9 more
- 67.0 Claude Fable 5.1
- 62.2 Claude Opus 5
- 55.6 Claude Fable 5
- 53.7
Gemini 3.8 Flash
- 50.7 GPT-6 Astra
- 49.6 Claude Opus 4.8
- 45.9 GPT-5.6 Sol
- 44.4 GPT-5.4
- 42.6 GPT-5.5
- 41.5 GLM-5.2
- 41.5
Muse Spark 1.1
- 39.0 GPT-5.3 Codex
- 38.5 Claude Opus 4.7
- 36.7 Claude Opus 4.6
- 31.8 Claude Sonnet 4.6
- 31.1
Muse Spark
- 30.3
Gemini 3 Flash
- 29.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro
- 28.7 GLM-5
- 27.1
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
- 25.8 Kimi K2.5
- 18.6
MiniMax-M2.5
- 1 Claude Fable 5.1 xhigh 67%
- 2 Claude Opus 5 xhigh 62.2%
- 3 Claude Fable 5 xhigh 55.6%
- 4
Gemini 3.8 Flash 53.7%
- 5 GPT-6 Astra xhigh 50.7%
- 6 Claude Opus 4.8 xhigh 49.6%
- 7 GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh 45.9%
- 8 GPT-5.4 xhigh 44.4%
- 9 GPT-5.5 xhigh 42.6%
- 10 GLM-5.2 41.5%
- 11
Muse Spark 1.1 xhigh 41.5%
- 12 GPT-5.3 Codex xhigh 39%
- 13 Claude Opus 4.7 38.5%
- 14 Claude Opus 4.6 36.7%
- 15 Claude Sonnet 4.6 31.8%
- 16
Muse Spark 31.1%
- 17
Gemini 3 Flash 30.3%
- 18
Gemini 3.1 Pro 29.8%
- 19 GLM-5 28.7%
- 20
DeepSeek-V4-Pro 27.1%
- 21 Kimi K2.5 25.8%
- 22
MiniMax-M2.5 18.6%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Fable 5.1 | 67% | xhigh, Claude Code | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 2 | Claude Opus 5 | 62.2% | xhigh, Claude Code | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 3 | Claude Fable 5 | 55.6% | xhigh, Claude Code | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 4 | | 53.7% | mini-SWE-agent | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 5 | GPT-6 Astra | 50.7% | xhigh, Codex | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 6 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 49.6% | xhigh, Claude Code | May 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 7 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 45.9% | xhigh, Codex | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 8 | GPT-5.4 | 44.4% | xhigh, Codex | Mar 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 9 | GPT-5.5 | 42.6% | xhigh, Codex | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 10 | GLM-5.2 | 41.5% | mini-SWE-agent | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 11 | | 41.5% | xhigh, mini-SWE-agent | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 12 | GPT-5.3 Codex | 39% | xhigh, Codex | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 13 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 38.5% | Claude Code | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 14 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 36.7% | Claude Code | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 15 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 31.8% | Claude Code | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 16 | | 31.1% | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 17 | | 30.3% | mini-SWE-agent | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 18 | | 29.8% | mini-SWE-agent | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 19 | GLM-5 | 28.7% | mini-SWE-agent | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 20 | | 27.1% | mini-SWE-agent | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 21 | Kimi K2.5 | 25.8% | mini-SWE-agent | Jan 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 22 | | 18.6% | mini-SWE-agent | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
5 models have held number one since its release in Apr 2026
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
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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