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PRDBench

Claude Code [agent system] 70.3% tops its leaderboard GPT-5.2 69% leads the models we track
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Code agents build 50 real-world Python projects across 20 domains from product requirement documents. A trained judge agent checks each project against structured criteria.

Published at AAMAS 2026. The authors built tasks with an agent-driven annotation pipeline under human supervision.

Released
October 2025
Kind
Building whole projects
Level
Expert
Scored
Graded by a model
Answers
Agent task
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
GPT-5.2 #50 on the capability index
Last model added
December 2025
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026

In the authors’ words

Recent advances in code agents have enabled automated software development at the project level, supported by large language models (LLMs). However, existing benchmarks for code agent evaluation face two major limitations. First, creating high-quality project-level evaluation datasets requires extensive domain expertise, leading to prohibitive annotation costs and limited diversity. Second, while recent Agent-as-a-Judge paradigms address the rigidity of traditional unit tests by enabling flexible metrics, their reliance on In-Context Learning (ICL) with general LLMs often results in inaccurate assessments that misalign with human standards. To address these challenges, we propose an agent-driven benchmark construction pipeline that leverages human supervision to efficiently generate diverse project-level tasks. Based on this, we introduce PRDBench, comprising 50 real-world Python projects across 20 domains, each with structured Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and comprehensive criteria. Furthermore, to overcome the inaccuracy of general LLM judges, we propose a highly reliable evaluation framework powered by a specialized, fine-tuned model. Based on Qwen3-Coder-30B, our dedicated PRDJudge achieves over 90% human alignment in fixed-interface scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our suite provides a scalable, robust, and highly accurate framework for assessing state-of-the-art code agents.

Abstract of Automatically Benchmarking LLM Code Agents through Agent-Driven Annotation and Evaluation (arXiv:2510.24358, CC0)
12
Entries on its own leaderboard, 4 models we track

Claude Code [agent system] tops the leaderboard with 70.3%

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. Every run is in the next chart. 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-5.2, at 69%.

The newest model with a score here came out in December 2025, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Claude Code [agent system] DEBUG 70.3%
  2. 2 Claude-4.5 [snapshot unspecified] DEV 69.2%
  3. 3 GPT-5.2 DEBUG 69%
  4. 4 CodeX [agent system] DEBUG 65%
  5. 5 Qwen3-Coder [snapshot unspecified] DEBUG 48.3%
  6. 6 DeepSeek-V3.2 DEV 40.1%
  7. 7 Qwen Code [agent system] DEV 39.9%
  8. 8 GLM-4.7 DEV 38.4%
  9. 9 Kimi-K2 [snapshot unspecified] DEBUG 36.2%
  10. 10 Gemini-3-Pro [snapshot unspecified] DEBUG 27.3%
  11. 11 MiniMax-M2 DEBUG 24.8%
  12. 12 Gemini CLI [agent system] DEBUG 21.5%

Source: Official PRDBench leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 Claude Code [agent system] 70.3% DEBUG, Claude Code Official leaderboard
2 Claude-4.5 [snapshot unspecified] 69.2% DEV, Minimal Official leaderboard
3 GPT-5.2 69% DEBUG, Minimal Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
4 CodeX [agent system] 65% DEBUG, CodeX Official leaderboard
5 Qwen3-Coder [snapshot unspecified] 48.3% DEBUG, Minimal Official leaderboard
6 DeepSeek-V3.2 40.1% DEV, Minimal Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
7 Qwen Code [agent system] 39.9% DEV, Qwen Code Official leaderboard
8 GLM-4.7 38.4% DEV, Minimal Dec 2025 Official leaderboard
9 Kimi-K2 [snapshot unspecified] 36.2% DEBUG, Minimal Official leaderboard
10 Gemini-3-Pro [snapshot unspecified] 27.3% DEBUG, Minimal Official leaderboard
11 MiniMax-M2 24.8% DEBUG, Minimal Oct 2025 Official leaderboard
12 Gemini CLI [agent system] 21.5% DEBUG, Gemini CLI Official leaderboard

Scores at each effort level

Models the leaderboard ran at two or more effort levels. We don’t have enough cost data here to say what the extra effort costs.

Lowest effort to highest, light to dark
GPT-5.2 Minimal
DEV DEBUG
69%
DeepSeek-V3.2 Minimal
DEBUG DEV
40.1%
GLM-4.7 Minimal
DEBUG
38.4%
MiniMax-M2 Minimal
DEV DEBUG
24.8%

Source: Official PRDBench leaderboard

ModelEffortHarnessScoreCost per taskOutput tokens
GPT-5.2 DEBUG Minimal 69%
GPT-5.2 DEV Minimal 62.5%
DeepSeek-V3.2 DEV Minimal 40.1%
GLM-4.7 DEV Minimal 38.4%
GLM-4.7 DEBUG Minimal 35.3%
DeepSeek-V3.2 DEBUG Minimal 24.8%
MiniMax-M2 DEBUG Minimal 24.8%
MiniMax-M2 DEV Minimal 17.6%

3 models have held number one on the official leaderboard since its release in October 2025

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

MiniMax DeepSeek OpenAI
Own leaderboard Not tested since Dec 2025
GPT-5.2 69%

Source: Official PRDBench 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 Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-5.2 DeepSeek-V3.2 MiniMax-M2 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-5.2 DeepSeek-V3.2

Source: Official PRDBench leaderboard

No lab model card reports it yet

We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.

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