Benchmark Almanac

SWE Atlas

Claude Opus 5 63.2% leads since Jul 2026 In use

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.

Abstract of SWE Atlas: Benchmarking Coding Agents Beyond Issue Resolution (arXiv:2605.08366, CC0)
Made by Scale AI Released Mar 2026 Fixing real repositories All tasks public Last in a launch post Oct 2026 Last model added Oct 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
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
22
Models scored on its own leaderboard
11
Launch posts list it, from 9 labs
2
System cards report it, from 2 labs

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:

  1. 1 Claude Opus 5 xhigh 63.2%
  2. 2 Claude Fable 5.1 xhigh 60%
  3. 3 GPT-6 Astra xhigh 59.1%
  4. 4 Claude Opus 4.8 xhigh 57.3%
  5. 5 GLM-5.2 48.1%
  6. 6 Gemini 3.8 Flash 47%
  7. 7 GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh 46%
  8. 8 GPT-5.5 xhigh 45.4%
  9. 9 Muse Spark 1.1 xhigh 42.2%
  10. 10 GPT-5.4 xhigh 40.8%
  11. 11 Claude Opus 4.7 40.3%
  12. 12 Claude Fable 5 xhigh 39%
  13. 13 Claude Opus 4.6 33.3%
  14. 14 GPT-5.3 Codex xhigh 32.6%
  15. 15 Claude Sonnet 4.6 31.2%
  16. 16 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 27.1%
  17. 17 Muse Spark 24.2%
  18. 18 GLM-5 20.5%
  19. 19 Gemini 3.1 Pro 13.5%
  20. 20 Kimi K2.5 13.1%
  21. 21 MiniMax-M2.5 10.3%
  22. 22 Gemini 3 Flash 8.20%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
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 Gemini 3.8 Flash 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 Muse Spark 1.1 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 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 27.1% mini-SWE-agent Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
17 Muse Spark 24.2% Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
18 GLM-5 20.5% mini-SWE-agent Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
19 Gemini 3.1 Pro 13.5% mini-SWE-agent Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
20 Kimi K2.5 13.1% mini-SWE-agent Jan 2026 Official leaderboard
21 MiniMax-M2.5 10.3% mini-SWE-agent Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
22 Gemini 3 Flash 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.

Anthropic OpenAI MiniMax xAI
Own leaderboard Not tested since Sep 2026
Lab claims 2 leaders
Grok 4.5 84%

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 Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Grok 4.5 Claude Opus 4.8 GPT-5.5 GPT-5.4 Claude Opus 4.6 Kimi K2.5 Gemini 3 Flash 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Grok 4.5 Claude Opus 4.8

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.

MiniMax
ByteDance Seed
Poolside
Tencent
Meta
StepFun
Reflection
Ant Group
Inception Labs
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
19 Oct 2026 Mercury 3 51.1 SWE-Bench Atlas
15 Oct 2026 Muse Spark Open 58 SWE-Atlas-QnA Preferred harness
13 Oct 2026 Ling-3.1-flash 64.5 SWE Atlas - Codebase QnA (LingCode)
5 Oct 2026 Beam 1.0 34.6 SWE Atlas Codebase QnA
20 Sep 2026 Step 5 Preview 57.2 Mean of SWE-Atlas-QnA 63.6 / SWE-Atlas-Test-writing 50.8
2 Sep 2026 Muse Spark 1.3 59.4 SWEAtlas CodeBase QnA (Codebase understanding)
28 Aug 2026 Tencent Hy4 preview 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 Laguna S 2.1 46.2 SWE Atlas (Codebase QnA)
23 Jun 2026 Seed2.1 Pro 35.2 SWE-Atlas
1 Jun 2026 MiniMax-M3 30.8 SWE Atlas-Test Writing
1 Jun 2026 MiniMax-M3 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.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
14 Jul 2026 Grok 4.5 model card 84 SWE-Atlas-QnA, accuracy, high (2.10) Capabilities
23 Jun 2026 Seed2.1 Pro model card 35.2 SWE-Atlas (Table 5) Capabilities

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  • SWE-bench Multilingual In use 300 GitHub-issue tasks across nine programming languages in SWE-bench format. Patch graded by repository tests. Claude Opus 5.5 93.9%
  • LiveCodeBench v6 In use Competitive programming problems collected after model cutoffs from LeetCode, AtCoder, Codeforces. Scored pass@1 on hidden tests. DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5%
  • DeepSWE In use 113 original long-horizon engineering tasks across 91 repos and five languages, written from scratch. Hand-written verifiers accept alternative solutions. GPT-6 Astra 74.1%
  • SciCode In use Scientist-curated research coding problems split into subproblems across natural sciences. Code checked against test cases. Seed2.1 Pro 59.8%
  • Codeforces rating In use Model solves recent Codeforces contest problems. An Elo-style rating is computed from simulated contest performance. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 3,471