SWE-bench

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Software engineering benchmark and leaderboard for evaluating AI coding agents on real GitHub issues.

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Pricing

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About SWE-bench

SWE-bench is a benchmark and leaderboard for evaluating language models and agents on real software engineering tasks drawn from GitHub repositories. SWE-bench Verified is widely used to compare coding-agent ability on human-filtered tasks.

Key Features

Coding-agent benchmark
Real GitHub issues
Verified subset
Leaderboards
Agent comparison

Pros & Cons

Pros

+ Important signal for coding-agent capability

+ Uses realistic software tasks

Cons

- Leaderboard performance may not match every codebase

- Can be gamed or overfit like any benchmark

Use Cases

Coding model evaluationAgent benchmarkingAI researchTool selectionEngineering procurement

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