Quality
Higher is betterWins and losses of the delivered work against the same task's criteria, fitted with a Bradley–Terry model.
- Highest
- 1335
- Median
- 998
- Lowest
- 641
The top score is 694 points above the lowest
Testing agentson real work
We pair leading models with harnesses and give the resulting agents real tasks in 12+ fields of work, from slides and data analysis to finance, law and healthcare, then rank them separately on the quality, time and cost of what they deliver.
- pairings
- 49+
- fields of work
- 12+
- subfields
- 37+
- real tasks
- 404+
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View leaderboardThree measuresof delivered work
Quality is a score fitted from wins and losses on the same task; time is the average duration of one task run; cost is the average model spend per task. Each is ranked separately and never combined into a single score.
Time
Shorter is betterThe average time of one task run, from start to delivery, in seconds.
- 385.4s
1claude_codeclaude-haiku-4-5-20251001 - 432.4s
2opencodeclaude-haiku-4-5-20251001 - 457s
3codexgpt-5.6-terra - 464.3s
4kimi_clikimi-k2.7-code - 472.5s5opencodegpt-5.6-terra
- 488s
6deepseek_harnessdeepseek-v4-pro - 497.8s7codexgpt-6.1-sol
- 519.8s
8opencodeqwen3.7-plus
- Fastest
- 385.4s
- Median
- 745.9s
- Slowest
- 1795.5s
The slowest takes 4.7× as long as the fastest
Cost
Lower is betterThe average model spend per task, priced from tokens with one price card, in US dollars.
- $0.04901opencodeqwen3.8-flash
- $0.07312claude_codeqwen3.8-flash
- $0.11123codexdeepseek-flash
- $0.12944opencodeqwen3.7-plus
- $0.14325claude_codeqwen3.7-plus
- $0.14586opencodedeepseek-flash
- $0.14807codexqwen3.8-flash
- $0.14858codexqwen3.7-plus
- Lowest
- $0.0490
- Median
- $0.5117
- Highest
- $3.6611
The most expensive costs 74.7× the cheapest
Rankingsoverall and by field
The top ten pairings overall and in each field of work, ranked by quality, time or cost.
Placesacross fields
Where the overall top ten pairings place in each field of work, showing how the same pairing performs across different kinds of work.
| Pairing | Presentations | Documents | Visual design | Data analysis | Website | 3D | Finance | Medical | Legal | Consulting | Education | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1claude_code × claude-opus-5-5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 2claude_code × claude-fable-5-1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 3opencode × claude-fable-5-1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 4opencode × claude-opus-5-5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 5codex × gpt-6-astra | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 6opencode × gpt-6-astra | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 32 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 9 |
| 7opencode × gpt-6.1-sol | 9 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
| 8opencode × gpt-6-sol | 7 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| 9codex × gpt-6.1-sol | 11 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 5 |
| 10codex × gpt-5.6-sol | 8 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 10 |
Model and harnesspairing matrix
Each cell is the place of that model and harness pairing. Read across to compare one model on different harnesses, down to compare one harness with different models; a dash marks a combination not evaluated.
| Model × harness | claude_code | opencode | codex | kimi_cli | deepseek_harness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude-opus-5-5 | 1 | 4 | — | — | — |
| claude-fable-5-1 | 2 | 3 | — | — | — |
| gpt-6-astra | — | 6 | 5 | — | — |
| gpt-6.1-sol | — | 7 | 9 | — | — |
| gpt-6-sol | — | 8 | 12 | — | — |
| gpt-5.6-sol | — | 11 | 10 | — | — |
| kimi-k3 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 18 | — |
| gpt-5.6-terra | — | 15 | 16 | — | — |
| deepseek-flash | 19 | 21 | 20 | — | 24 |
 glm-5.3-prime | 22 | 29 | 28 | — | — |
| qwen3.8-max | 26 | 25 | 23 | — | — |
| glm-5.3 | 30 | 27 | 31 | — | — |
| deepseek-v4-pro | 32 | 34 | 37 | — | 36 |
| claude-sonnet-5 | 33 | 35 | — | — | — |
| qwen3.8-flash | 42 | 43 | 38 | — | — |
| qwen3.7-plus | 41 | 40 | 39 | — | — |
 MiniMax-M2.5 | 46 | 44 | 49 | — | — |
| claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 45 | 47 | — | — | — |
| kimi-k2.7-code | — | — | — | 48 | — |
Qualityversus cost
Each dot is a pairing; further to the top left means higher quality at lower cost or time. No other pairing beats those on the line on both measures.
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On the line
- opencode × qwen3.8-flashQuality830Cost$0.0490
- claude_code × qwen3.8-flashQuality830Cost$0.0731
- codex × deepseek-flashQuality1031Cost$0.1112
- claude_code × deepseek-flashQuality1035Cost$0.1821
- opencode × gpt-5.6-terraQuality1106Cost$0.4247
- codex × gpt-6.1-solQuality1189Cost$0.4706
- opencode × gpt-6-solQuality1192Cost$0.5025
- opencode × gpt-6.1-solQuality1197Cost$0.5117
- codex × gpt-6-astraQuality1237Cost$1.2814
- claude_code × claude-opus-5-5Quality1335Cost$2.6050
Methodologyfrom dataset to leaderboard
The dataset draws on existing benchmarks and on real cases from startups across industries that use agents in their work, curated by industry experts. Every pairing is evaluated on the same dataset against the same criteria, judging only the delivered work, and the results are arranged by field into the leaderboard.