Benchmark Almanac

WorkSpaceBench

Qwen 3.8 Max 67.7% leads since Aug 2026 In use

Agent completes 388 tasks in realistic worker file workspaces (20k files) needing cross-file dependency reasoning. Scored against 7,399 rubrics.

Name match assumed: the Qwen3.8-Max card lists 'WorkSpaceBench' without a citation.

In the authors’ words

Workspace learning requires AI agents to identify, reason over, exploit, and update explicit and implicit dependencies among heterogeneous files in a worker's workspace, enabling them to complete both routine and advanced tasks effectively. Despite its importance, existing relevant benchmarks largely evaluate agents on pre-specified or synthesized files with limited real-world dependencies, leaving workspace-level evaluation underexplored. To this end, we introduce Workspace-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on Workspace Learning involving Large-Scale File Dependencies. We construct realistic workspaces with 5 worker profiles, 74 file types, 20,476 files (up to 20GB) and curate 388 tasks, each with its own file dependency graph, evaluated across 7,399 total rubrics that require cross-file retrieval, contextual reasoning, and adaptive decision-making. We further provide Workspace-Bench-Lite, a 100-task subset that preserves the benchmark distribution while reducing evaluation costs by about 70%. We evaluate 4 popular agent harnesses and 7 foundation models. Experimental results show that current agents remain far from reliable workspace learning, where the best reaches only about 60%, substantially below the human result of 80.7%, and the average performance across agents is only 43.3%.

Abstract of Workspace-Bench 1.0: Benchmarking AI Agents on Workspace Tasks with Large-Scale File Dependencies (arXiv:2605.03596, CC0)
Made by SJTU + ByteDance (OpenDataBox) Released May 2026 Documents and spreadsheets All tasks public Last in a launch post Aug 2026 Last model added Aug 2026
Level
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
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.
3
Models scored in lab cards
3
Launch posts list it, from 3 labs
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

Qwen 3.8 Max leads with 67.7% among models released by Aug 2026

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

The newest model with a score here came out in Aug 2026, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Qwen 3.8 Max 67.7%
  2. 2 Tencent Hy4 preview 60.2%
  3. 3 Seed2.1 Pro 53%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen 3.8 Max 67.7% Aug 2026 Model card
2 Tencent Hy4 preview 60.2% Aug 2026 Model card
3 Seed2.1 Pro 53% Jun 2026 Model card

2 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.

ByteDance Seed Qwen
Lab claims Not tested since Aug 2026
Qwen 3.8 Max 67.7%

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen 3.8 Max Seed2.1 Pro 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen 3.8 Max Seed2.1 Pro

3 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.

ByteDance Seed
Qwen
Tencent
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
28 Aug 2026 Tencent Hy4 preview 60.2 WorkspaceBench
3 Aug 2026 Qwen 3.8 Max 67.7 WorkSpaceBench
23 Jun 2026 Seed2.1 Pro 53 Workspace Bench (Total, 100-task OpenClaw setting)

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
23 Jun 2026 Seed2.1 Pro model card 53 Workspace Bench, Total, 100-task OpenClaw setting (Table 1) Capabilities

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