Benchmark Almanac

WorldTravel

Seed1.8 47.2% Fading

Agents plan trips for 150 real-world scenarios across 5 cities with more than 15 tightly coupled time and logic constraints each. A web environment supplies multimodal travel data.

Seed1.8 first reported it as an internal benchmark in December 2025, before the paper. Seed1.8 reports best of five attempts.

In the authors’ words

Real-world autonomous planning requires coordinating tightly coupled constraints where a single decision dictates the feasibility of all subsequent actions. However, existing benchmarks predominantly feature loosely coupled constraints solvable through local greedy decisions and rely on idealized data, failing to capture the complexity of extracting parameters from dynamic web environments. We introduce WorldTravel, a benchmark comprising 150 real-world travel scenarios across 5 cities that demand navigating an average of 15+ interdependent temporal and logical constraints. To evaluate agents in realistic deployments, we develop WorldTravel-Webscape, a multi-modal environment featuring over 2,000 rendered webpages where agents must perceive constraint parameters directly from visual layouts to inform their planning. Our evaluation of 10 frontier models reveals a significant performance collapse: even the state-of-the-art GPT-5.2 achieves only 32.67% feasibility in text-only settings, which plummets to 19.33% in multi-modal environments. We identify a critical Perception-Action Gap and a Planning Horizon threshold at approximately 10 constraints where model reasoning consistently fails, suggesting that perception and reasoning remain independent bottlenecks. These findings underscore the need for next-generation agents that unify high-fidelity visual perception with long-horizon reasoning to handle brittle real-world logistics.

Abstract of WorldTravel: A Realistic Multimodal Travel-Planning Benchmark with Tightly Coupled Constraints (arXiv:2602.08367, CC0)
Made by ByteDance Seed and collaborators (Wang et al.) Released Feb 2026 General assistants Last in a launch post Dec 2025 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Mar 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.
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Model scored in lab cards
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Launch post lists it, from 1 lab
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System cards report it, from 1 lab

Seed1.8 leads with 47.2%

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.

  1. 1 Seed1.8 47.2%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Seed1.8 47.2% Dec 2025 Model card

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
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed1.8 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed1.8

Labs headline it less often now, last in Dec 2025

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
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
18 Dec 2025 Seed1.8 47.2 WorldTravel multi-modal (best of 5) 47.2 / text 52.1

2 system cards report it, from 1 lab

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
21 Mar 2026 Seed1.8 model card WorldTravel best of 5, multi-modal 47.2, text 52.1, no overall (Table 4) Capabilities
14 Feb 2026 Seed2.0 Pro model card World Travel (VLM) 12.0, World Travel (TEXT) 23.3, no overall (Table 13) Capabilities

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