Benchmark Almanac

UniClawBench

Claude Opus 4.8 47.5% leads since Jul 2026 In use

Agents act as proactive assistants on real-world tasks with live tools across many turns. Tasks are grouped by the capability they test, so failures can be traced to one skill.

Qwen runs it with the OpenClaw harness and reports it as multimodal tool use.

In the authors’ words

The rapid development of large language models and multimodal large language models has accelerated the emergence of proactive agents capable of operating everyday tools and assisting users in real-world environments. However, existing benchmarks struggle to evaluate such agents effectively, as they often rely on sandboxed environments and single-turn evaluation paradigms. Moreover, their scenario-based task taxonomies mix multiple model capabilities within the same task category, making it difficult to identify the root causes of agent failures. To address these limitations, we introduce UniClawBench, the first capability-driven benchmark designed to evaluate proactive agents in dynamic, real-world settings. UniClawBench is built around five foundational model capabilities: Skill Usage, Exploration, Long-Context Reasoning, Multimodal Understanding, and Cross-Platform Coordination. Based on these capabilities, we design 400 bilingual real-world tasks. Unlike previous benchmarks that rely on static, pre-recorded answers, our benchmark evaluates agents in live Docker containers using fine-grained, step-by-step completion checkpoints. Furthermore, we design a closed-loop evaluation strategy comprising an executor agent, a hidden supervisor agent, and a user agent to simulate realistic multi-turn human feedback without leaking grading criteria. To disentangle base model capabilities from framework-level design choices, we evaluate state-of-the-art models under multiple agent frameworks. Through comprehensive comparisons across both models and frameworks, we show how base model capabilities and agent framework designs jointly shape performance in real-world environments. To facilitate future research, we make our benchmark and code publicly available at https://github.com/HKU-MMLab/UniClawBench.

Abstract of UniClawBench: A Universal Benchmark for Proactive Agents on Real-World Tasks (arXiv:2607.08768, CC0)
Made by The University of Hong Kong (HKU MMLab) Released Jul 2026 General assistants All tasks public Last in a launch post Sep 2026 Last model added Sep 2026 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
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.
10
Models scored on its own leaderboard
1
Launch post lists it, from 1 lab
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

Claude Opus 4.8 leads with 47.5% among models released by May 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 May 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 4.8 47.5%
  2. 2 Claude Sonnet 4.6 45.5%
  3. 3 GPT-5.4 40.8%
  4. 4 Kimi K2.6 36.3%
  5. 5 Gemini 3.1 Pro 32.5%
  6. 6 Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) 31.8%
  7. 7 Gemini 3 Flash 28.3%
  8. 8 GPT-5.4 Mini 21.5%
  9. 9 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 15.5%
  10. 10 GPT-4.1 15.3%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Claude Opus 4.8 47.5% OpenClaw May 2026 Official leaderboard
2 Claude Sonnet 4.6 45.5% OpenClaw Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
3 GPT-5.4 40.8% OpenClaw Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
4 Kimi K2.6 36.3% OpenClaw Apr 2026 Official leaderboard
5 Gemini 3.1 Pro 32.5% OpenClaw Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
6 Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) 31.8% OpenClaw Feb 2026 Official leaderboard
7 Gemini 3 Flash 28.3% OpenClaw Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
8 GPT-5.4 Mini 21.5% OpenClaw Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
9 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 15.5% OpenClaw Mar 2026 Official leaderboard
10 GPT-4.1 15.3% OpenClaw Apr 2025 Official leaderboard

Labs report scores for 1 model in their cards. We plot every source in the charts below.

Number one over time

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

Anthropic
Own leaderboard Not tested since Jul 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 Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Claude Opus 4.8 Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) GPT-4.1 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Claude Opus 4.8

One lab 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.

Qwen
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
18 Sep 2026 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 69.6 UniClawBench Multimodal tool use (OpenClaw)

One system card reports it

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
22 Sep 2026 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash technical report 69.6 UniClawBench, OpenClaw (Table 6) Capabilities

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