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FlashInfer-Bench

gemini-2.5-pro (snapshot unspecified) 0.63× tops its leaderboard GPT-5 0.47× leads the models we track
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Agents generate GPU kernels for LLM inference that are benchmarked on workloads from real serving traces and can be deployed into the FlashInfer stack.

Repo opened in June 2025 and the paper followed in January 2026. 301 GitHub stars.

Made by
FlashInfer team
Released
June 2025
Kind
GPU kernels
Level
Expert
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Code
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
GPT-5 #70 on the capability index
Last model added
August 2025
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026

In the authors’ words

Recent advances show that large language models (LLMs) can act as autonomous agents capable of generating GPU kernels, but integrating these AI-generated kernels into real-world inference systems remains challenging. FlashInfer-Bench addresses this gap by establishing a standardized, closed-loop framework that connects kernel generation, benchmarking, and deployment. At its core, FlashInfer Trace provides a unified schema describing kernel definitions, workloads, implementations, and evaluations, enabling consistent communication between agents and systems. Built on real serving traces, FlashInfer-Bench includes a curated dataset, a robust correctness- and performance-aware benchmarking framework, a public leaderboard to track LLM agents' GPU programming capabilities, and a dynamic substitution mechanism (apply()) that seamlessly injects the best-performing kernels into production LLM engines such as SGLang and vLLM. Using FlashInfer-Bench, we further evaluate the performance and limitations of LLM agents, compare the trade-offs among different GPU programming languages, and provide insights for future agent design. FlashInfer-Bench thus establishes a practical, reproducible pathway for continuously improving AI-generated kernels and deploying them into large-scale LLM inference.

Abstract of FlashInfer-Bench: Building the Virtuous Cycle for AI-driven LLM Systems (arXiv:2601.00227, CC0)
4
Entries on its own leaderboard, 2 models we track

gemini-2.5-pro (snapshot unspecified) tops the leaderboard with 0.63×

Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders. The best model we track is GPT-5, at 0.47×.

  1. 1 gemini-2.5-pro (snapshot unspecified) 0.63×
  2. 2 GPT-5 0.47×
  3. 3 Claude Opus 4.1 0.46×
  4. 4 gpt-o3 0.45×

Source: Official FlashInfer-Bench leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 gemini-2.5-pro (snapshot unspecified) 0.63× Official leaderboard
2 GPT-5 0.47× Aug 2025 Official leaderboard
3 Claude Opus 4.1 0.46× Aug 2025 Official leaderboard
4 gpt-o3 0.45× Official leaderboard

Scores over time

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

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard
0.46× 0.46× 0.47× 0.46× 0.46× 0.47×

Source: Official FlashInfer-Bench leaderboard

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