Terminal-Bench 3.0

Hard for the right reasons.

Terminal-Bench 3.0 pairs the economic realism of expert work with the rigor of terminal-native evaluation, spanning well beyond typical software engineering — distributed systems, GPU performance, security forensics, geospatial and clinical-data workflows. Every task stalls a competent expert not because it is long, but because it demands a non-obvious leap that cannot be retrieved. Each is adversarially reviewed and graded only by execution, so a passing score is capability rather than pattern-matching.

  • Terminal-native
  • Execution-graded
  • Expert work
  • Adversarially reviewed
100
Tasks
8
Models
8
Trials per task

Task pass rate by model

Full leaderboard

The share of each model's trials that passed, graded by execution verdict.

  • GPT-5.6 Sol · codex · max56.6%
  • Fable-5 · claude-code · high47.3%
  • Grok-4.5 · terminus-2 · high44%
  • GLM-5.2 · terminus-2 · high41.5%
  • KIMI K3 · terminus-2 · thinking:enabled39.8%
  • Opus-4.8 · terminus-2 · xhigh36.6%
  • KIMI K2.7 · terminus-2 · max27.6%
  • Inkling · terminus-2 · xhigh21.9%

Measured on 100 tasks · 6,400 trials · 8 models

The Verdict

Within the competitive field the configs reach almost the same set of tasks. What they do not share is the ability to hit the same task twice.

GPT-5.6 Sol

56.6%

best model's pass rate

GPT-5.6 Sol leads at 56.6%, and the spread in what a config can solve at least once is far narrower than the spread in what it solves every time.

Failue Modes

Explore failure modes

Every failing trial is labelled — nothing is sampled. The mechanism a failure is filed under says what its task traps, not what that trajectory did; the producer is explicit about that, and it is why the mechanism mix barely moves between configs.

  1. Most failures land at Misread the problem

    Built a coherent, internally consistent solution to a different reading of the spec. The work is complete and confidently delivered; the interpretation is wrong. It accounts for 1,468 of the drop's 3,833 verifier failures — more than any other stage, and every model on the board is in that number.

The Evidence

Browse every task

The lowest-scoring tasks in the suite, and what each one asks for.

Our tasks in the published suite

Three of the tasks in the published Terminal-Bench 3.0 set are ours. Each opens on the Harbor hub — browse it, or run it against your own agent.