Comment by andai

2 days ago

http://deepswe.datacurve.ai/ has graphs for Cost, for Token Usage, and for Agent Steps. They don't have one for Time, sadly, but Output Tokens and Agent Steps (which appear to produce near-identical rankings) are a decent proxy.

https://cognition.com/blog/frontier-code has a dropdown selector for Tokens, Cost, Time, Agent Steps, and more.

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As a side note, these two benchmarks appear to be more sensitive at distinguishing supposedly frontier models from each other. But they themselves cannot agree on which is better!

One argues that the other has a flawed methodology (and makes a fair case). However it might also just be that the frontier is a little jagged, and sometimes one model will do better than another.

That's been my experience anyway. When I have a very important task, I always make sure to get a second opinion: I get them both to give it a shot, and then to critique each other's solutions. You can actually apply this at every stage (the review, the planning, the implementation), if you have the patience for it.

(Would be nice if there were a way to automate this process. Maybe with one of the higher level meta-harnesses that runs Claude and Codex as subprocesses. But I haven't looked into that yet...)

At any rate, combinations of models have always been found to do significantly better than a single one (e.g. see Model Alloys, Model Fusion, etc.). So make sure to use them, when appropriate!

Hope this helps.