FrontierSWE v2
34 open-ended engineering and research projects, such as rebuilding a version-control system in another language or training a weather-forecasting model. Each gets a 20-hour budget and a deterministic verifier that gives partial credit. Mean of five trials per task.
Long-horizon tasks with tools: terminals, desktops, browsers, whole jobs. One of 6 comparable tests in agentic, a category the Index averages.
Read with care. Run by its creator, Proximal, in Proximal's own agent harness. No third party has reproduced the results, and Proximal says the tasks and scoring may still change.
Publisher: ProximalWhat a model is asked to do
Build a whole piece of software or a research result alone, with a 20-hour budget and an automated checker waiting at the end.
For exampleRebuild a spreadsheet's formula engine from its documentation alone, in a language of your choice, until it gives the same answers as the original on thousands of saved workbooks.
Why it matters. This is a working day of unattended engineering, not a ticket. It shows whether a model can hold a plan together for hours and still finish.
The example is original and illustrative, not an item from the dataset.
- Models scored here
- 22
- Who produced the numbers
- Official leaderboard
- Items graded
- n = 34 (2.9% each)
- Best published result
- 69.9%
- Newest release covered
- November 9, 2026 (active)
- License
- CC BY 4.0 (via Epoch AI)
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Scale
- Published as a share of items solved. For the Index, each score is a share of the best published result (69.9%), so the frontier reads 100. Guessing earns nothing on this test, so no chance correction applies.
- Provenance
- Produced by the benchmark's own leaderboard or a third-party evaluator, not by the model's maker.
Snapshot November 10, 2026
Ranking on this test
22 models on FrontierSWE v2
Best published run per model, and how close each one comes to the best published result on this test (the frontier reads 100). Every number links to the publisher that produced it. Internal runs are marked and carry their run details on the model page. One item on this test is 2.9 points, so read gaps smaller than that as noise.
| # | Model | Score | vs frontier | Run | Produced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Fable 5.2Anthropic | 69.9% | 100.0 | harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 2 | GPT-6 AstraOpenAI | 65.5% | 93.7 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 3 | Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | 62.3% | 89.1 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 4 | Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | 61.9% | 88.5 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 5 | Gemini 4 CarbonGoogle | 61.2% | 87.5 | high · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 6 | Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | 56.3% | 80.5 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 7 | Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle | 55.0% | 78.6 | high · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 8 | Claude Opus 5Anthropic | 52.0% | 74.4 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 9 | Claude Fable 5Anthropic | 47.0% | 67.1 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 10 | Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | 43.8% | 62.6 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 11 | GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI | 32.2% | 46.0 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 12 | GLM 5.3Zhipu AI | 30.2% | 43.2 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 13 | Grok 4.7xAI | 29.5% | 42.2 | xhigh · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 14 | Kimi K3Moonshot AI | 25.9% | 37.0 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 15 | Muse Spark 1.3Meta | 25.8% | 36.9 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 16 | Grok 4.6xAI | 25.3% | 36.2 | xhigh · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 17 | Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle | 20.3% | 29.0 | high · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 18 | Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle | 19.6% | 28.1 | high · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 19 | GLM 5.3 FlashZhipu AI | 18.1% | 25.9 | max · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 20 | Qwen3.8 MaxAlibaba | 17.8% | 25.5 | xhigh · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 21 | Muse Spark 1.2Meta | 12.0% | 17.1 | xhigh · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |
| 22 | InklingThinking Machines | 4.1% | 5.9 | xhigh · harness: proximus | Leaderboard |

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