SWE Atlas
Scale's coding-agent suite beyond patching: codebase Q&A, writing production tests, and refactoring in real repos. Rubric/test-scored leaderboards.
This record covers SWE Atlas Codebase QnA (124 tasks), whose dataset and leaderboard it links. Test Writing and Refactoring have their own records.
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
- Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
Claude Opus 5 leads with 63.2% 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:
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- Claude Sonnet 5.5
- and 9 more
- 63.2 Claude Opus 5
- 60.0 Claude Fable 5.1
- 59.1 GPT-6 Astra
- 57.3 Claude Opus 4.8
- 48.1 GLM-5.2
- 47.0
Gemini 3.8 Flash
- 46.0 GPT-5.6 Sol
- 45.4 GPT-5.5
- 42.2
Muse Spark 1.1
- 40.8 GPT-5.4
- 40.3 Claude Opus 4.7
- 39.0 Claude Fable 5
- 33.3 Claude Opus 4.6
- 32.6 GPT-5.3 Codex
- 31.2 Claude Sonnet 4.6
- 27.1
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
- 24.2
Muse Spark
- 20.5 GLM-5
- 13.5
Gemini 3.1 Pro
- 13.1 Kimi K2.5
- 10.3
MiniMax-M2.5
- 8.20
Gemini 3 Flash
- 1 Claude Opus 5 xhigh 63.2%
- 2 Claude Fable 5.1 xhigh 60%
- 3 GPT-6 Astra xhigh 59.1%
- 4 Claude Opus 4.8 xhigh 57.3%
- 5 GLM-5.2 48.1%
- 6
Gemini 3.8 Flash 47%
- 7 GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh 46%
- 8 GPT-5.5 xhigh 45.4%
- 9
Muse Spark 1.1 xhigh 42.2%
- 10 GPT-5.4 xhigh 40.8%
- 11 Claude Opus 4.7 40.3%
- 12 Claude Fable 5 xhigh 39%
- 13 Claude Opus 4.6 33.3%
- 14 GPT-5.3 Codex xhigh 32.6%
- 15 Claude Sonnet 4.6 31.2%
- 16
DeepSeek-V4-Pro 27.1%
- 17
Muse Spark 24.2%
- 18 GLM-5 20.5%
- 19
Gemini 3.1 Pro 13.5%
- 20 Kimi K2.5 13.1%
- 21
MiniMax-M2.5 10.3%
- 22
Gemini 3 Flash 8.20%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 5 | 63.2% | xhigh, Claude Code | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 2 | Claude Fable 5.1 | 60% | xhigh, Claude Code | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 3 | GPT-6 Astra | 59.1% | xhigh, Codex | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 57.3% | xhigh, Claude Code | May 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 5 | GLM-5.2 | 48.1% | mini-SWE-agent | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 6 | | 47% | mini-SWE-agent | Sep 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 7 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 46% | xhigh, Codex | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 8 | GPT-5.5 | 45.4% | xhigh, Codex | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 9 | | 42.2% | xhigh, mini-SWE-agent | Jul 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 10 | GPT-5.4 | 40.8% | xhigh, Codex | Mar 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 11 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 40.3% | Claude Code | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 12 | Claude Fable 5 | 39% | xhigh, Claude Code | Jun 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 13 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 33.3% | Claude Code | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 14 | GPT-5.3 Codex | 32.6% | xhigh, Codex | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 15 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 31.2% | Claude Code | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 16 | | 27.1% | mini-SWE-agent | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 17 | | 24.2% | Apr 2026 | Official leaderboard | |
| 18 | GLM-5 | 20.5% | mini-SWE-agent | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 19 | | 13.5% | mini-SWE-agent | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 20 | Kimi K2.5 | 13.1% | mini-SWE-agent | Jan 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 21 | | 10.3% | mini-SWE-agent | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 22 | | 8.20% | mini-SWE-agent | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard |
Labs report scores for 11 models in their cards. We plot every source in the charts below.
5 models have held number one since its release in Mar 2026
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release. We draw one row each for the benchmark’s own leaderboard and what labs claim in their cards.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
9 labs put it in a launch post in the last six months
Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Mercury 3 | 51.1 | SWE-Bench Atlas |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 58 | SWE-Atlas-QnA Preferred harness | |
| 13 Oct 2026 | 64.5 | SWE Atlas - Codebase QnA (LingCode) | |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Beam 1.0 | 34.6 | SWE Atlas Codebase QnA |
| 20 Sep 2026 | 57.2 | Mean of SWE-Atlas-QnA 63.6 / SWE-Atlas-Test-writing 50.8 | |
| 2 Sep 2026 | 59.4 | SWEAtlas CodeBase QnA (Codebase understanding) | |
| 28 Aug 2026 | 58.4 | Mean of SWE Atlas Codebase Q&A 64.0 / SWE Atlas Test Writing 57.8 / SWE Atlas Refactoring 53.3 | |
| 21 Jul 2026 | 46.2 | SWE Atlas (Codebase QnA) | |
| 23 Jun 2026 | 35.2 | SWE-Atlas | |
| 1 Jun 2026 | 30.8 | SWE Atlas-Test Writing | |
| 1 Jun 2026 | 37.9 | SWE Atlas-QnA |
2 system cards report it, from 2 labs
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jul 2026 | Grok 4.5 model card | 84 | SWE-Atlas-QnA, accuracy, high (2.10) | Capabilities |
| 23 Jun 2026 | | 35.2 | SWE-Atlas (Table 5) | Capabilities |
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