{"slug": "real-swe-benchmarking-ai-models-on-private-real-world-enterprise-codebases", "title": "Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases", "summary": "Real-SWE, a new benchmark evaluating frontier AI models on private, real-world enterprise codebases licensed from real companies, was released with Fable 5.1 running in Claude Code posting the top resolution rate of 38.8%. GPT-6 Astra in Codex CLI followed at 33.8%, Gemini 3.8 Flash in Gemini CLI at 31.2%, and GLM 5.3 in Claude Code at 28.8%, while GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex CLI finished last at 16.2%. The benchmark uses native harnesses and tasks drawn from production systems involving billing, tax calculation, and customer migrations, evaluating model-and-harness combinations rather than models in isolation.", "body_md": "# Introducing Real-SWE\n\nBenchmarking frontier AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases.\n\n## 01Introduction\n\nToday we are releasing Real-SWE, a benchmark that evaluates frontier AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases. Each task comes from a private production codebase that we licensed from a real-world company. These are problems their engineers work on, with all the context and complexity that comes with an existing product.\n\n- **Private codebases.** Agents must navigate proprietary systems whose code and solutions aren’t available on the public internet.\n- **Work with business consequences.** Getting billing right, calculating taxes, migrating customers. Changes that affect how a business runs, often across multiple services.\n- **Company-specific complexity.** Every company has its own rules and ways of writing code. Agents have to understand those conventions and make changes that work with what’s already there.\n\n**Can a coding agent actually do the work of a software engineer in the real world?**\n\n1. 1Resolution rate: 38.8%Fable 5.1Claude Code\n2. 2Resolution rate: 33.8%GPT-6 AstraCodex CLI\n3. 3Resolution rate: 31.2%Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini CLI\n4. 4Resolution rate: 28.8%GLM 5.3Claude Code\n5. =5Resolution rate: 23.8%Grok 4.6Grok Build\n6. =5Resolution rate: 23.8%Muse Spark 1.3Muse Code\n7. 7Resolution rate: 18.8%Kimi K3Kimi Code\n8. 8Resolution rate: 16.2%GPT-5.6 SolCodex CLI\n\n| # | Model | Harness | Resolution rate | \n|---|---|---|---|\n| 1 | Fable 5.1 | Claude Code | 38.8% | \n| 2 | GPT-6 Astra | Codex CLI | 33.8% | \n| 3 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Gemini CLI | 31.2% | \n| 4 | GLM 5.3 | Claude Code | 28.8% | \n| =5 | Grok 4.6 | Grok Build | 23.8% | \n| =5 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Muse Code | 23.8% | \n| 7 | Kimi K3 | Kimi Code | 18.8% | \n| 8 | GPT-5.6 Sol | Codex CLI | 16.2% | \n\nExpert-generated or synthetic tasks can be well designed, but they aren’t the verbatim, actual tasks that engineers in real companies need to do. Our tasks differ on two axes: the underlying coding artifact and specificity of the instruction. Both add complexities that challenge today’s frontier models.\n\nWe use native harnesses to reflect how enterprise engineers work in practice, evaluating model-and-harness combinations rather than models in isolation.\n\n### Real company tasks require company-specific context\n\n### Correct billing depends on business rules and external services\n\nFix invoice billing so each business charges the right tax and exempt customers aren't taxed.\n\n## View full instructionHide full instruction\n\nBilling reopens on Monday and every invoice this service issues is coming out untaxed. Each business on the platform settles its tax a different way: some maintain a rate themselves, some want each invoice priced against the buyer's destination by our tax authority provider, and some collect nothing at all, while a customer we hold an exemption for is charged nothing whichever way its business is configured. Pricing a destination means going to the authority with both addresses, the priced lines and the product category that business sells under, on the sandbox or the production authority according to the account the business is on; an address the authority refuses must be reported without stopping the invoice. The rate, the tax and the gross belong on the issued invoice, and once an invoice is settled the sale is filed back to the authority under that invoice's number so the returns reconcile. Invoices between European parties show both sides' VAT registrations. The authority and ledger are available at TAX_JAR_URL, PROD_TAX_JAR_URL and INFLUX_URL.\n\n- TaxJar sandbox\n- TaxJar production\n- InfluxDB ledger\n- NestJS service\n- TypeScript\n\n### Agents work across code, infrastructure, and business tools\n\nTools and services across Real-SWE task environments. Each task exposes only the services its workflow needs.\n\n- AWS emulator\n- Docker\n- Kubernetes\n- GitHub\n- Linear MCP\n- PostgreSQL\n- MySQL\n- MongoDB\n- Gel\n- Redis\n- Go\n- Python\n- Node.js\n- Vitest\n- Slack\n- Intercom\n- Google Drive\n- ClickUp\n\n### Codebase Selection\n\nWe selected codebases through a rigorous screening process, focusing on real companies with substantial usage, strong engineering teams, and demanding production workloads. The sample tasks analyzed below come from these codebases, including:\n\n- A Luma/Partiful competitor with **200K+ users** and a**top 100 App Store ranking**\n- A consumer fintech platform processing **100K+ bank statements**\n- Enterprise AI sales platforms supporting complex business workflows\n\nWe prioritize code written to meet an actual user or business need over code written solely to create a benchmark task. Production engineering requires understanding existing architecture, preserving behavior that users rely on, and making changes within real operational constraints.\n\n### Brief instructions can require changes across many files\n\nOur tasks describe the change needed, leaving agents to discover implementation details in the codebase and surrounding tools. Any behavior required by the verifier must be stated or reasonably discoverable. This leads to our prompts being slightly underspecified, about par with DeepSWE and Terminal Bench, but specific enough to not omit instructions.\n\nThe work is cross-functional and complex: a single change can span multiple parts of the application. Agents must understand existing business logic and company coding patterns while keeping the surrounding system working.\n\n### Models fail even in short rollouts.\n\n71.4% of rollouts under 10 minutes failed, compared with 73.4% of longer rollouts.\n\nTriaging multiple systems and understanding requirements in codebases riddled with existing business logic and coding patterns is difficult.\n\n- Failed\n- Passed\n\nEvery task is inspired or lifted verbatim from a private, real-world codebase. We find these types of tasks super interesting for three reasons:\n\n1. **Tasks on private codebases are natively out of distribution.** These types of coding tasks are not available anywhere on the internet and are unlikely to have ever been trained on by any other ai model. 99% of tokens in real-world enterprises are hidden away from the frontier models.\n2. **These tasks are economically viable work.** Each task here has a direct relationship to spend and was assigned to an engineer earning a salary. Most benchmarks test interesting, experimental capabilities that are often unlikely to be widespread in the real-world.\n3. **Company-specific engineering patterns matter.** Does AI code match the bar of a real-world enterprise? Our results show us that we're far from that reality. Many enterprises care about code standards and patterns. We've found that today's models are weaker at understanding company coding patterns and frequently miss requirements or don't verify their assumptions.\n\n## 02Analysis\n\nHere's an analysis of a small sample of tasks from our benchmark. If you're interested in the sample, [request access here](/benchmarks/real-swe/request-access).\n\n### 6 of 10 tasks have resolution rates below 15%\n\nSelect a task to view model results. Percentages show the overall resolution rate.\n\n## Multi-region sweep67.2%\n\n- Fable 5.17/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra8/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash8/8 passed\n- GLM 5.32/8 passed\n- Grok 4.63/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.38/8 passed\n- Kimi K32/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol5/8 passed\n\n## API keys & environments65.6%\n\n- Fable 5.18/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra5/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash7/8 passed\n- GLM 5.35/8 passed\n- Grok 4.64/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.36/8 passed\n- Kimi K30/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol7/8 passed\n\n## Entitlement overage lines50.0%\n\n- Fable 5.18/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra7/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash5/8 passed\n- GLM 5.33/8 passed\n- Grok 4.61/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.31/8 passed\n- Kimi K36/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol1/8 passed\n\n## Customer identity migration40.6%\n\n- Fable 5.13/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra1/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash3/8 passed\n- GLM 5.34/8 passed\n- Grok 4.68/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.33/8 passed\n- Kimi K34/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol0/8 passed\n\n## Billing schedule migration14.1%\n\n- Fable 5.13/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra1/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash2/8 passed\n- GLM 5.32/8 passed\n- Grok 4.60/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.30/8 passed\n- Kimi K31/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol0/8 passed\n\n## API token metering12.5%\n\n- Fable 5.11/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra5/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash0/8 passed\n- GLM 5.31/8 passed\n- Grok 4.60/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.30/8 passed\n- Kimi K31/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol0/8 passed\n\n## S3 datastore measurement10.9%\n\n- Fable 5.10/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra0/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash0/8 passed\n- GLM 5.33/8 passed\n- Grok 4.62/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.31/8 passed\n- Kimi K31/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol0/8 passed\n\n## Linearizable scan4.7%\n\n- Fable 5.10/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra0/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash0/8 passed\n- GLM 5.32/8 passed\n- Grok 4.61/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.30/8 passed\n- Kimi K30/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol0/8 passed\n\n## Tax jurisdiction3.1%\n\n- Fable 5.11/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra0/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash0/8 passed\n- GLM 5.31/8 passed\n- Grok 4.60/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.30/8 passed\n- Kimi K30/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol0/8 passed\n\n## Analytics stream reducer0.0%\n\n- Fable 5.10/8 passed\n- GPT-6 Astra0/8 passed\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash0/8 passed\n- GLM 5.30/8 passed\n- Grok 4.60/8 passed\n- Muse Spark 1.30/8 passed\n- Kimi K30/8 passed\n- GPT-5.6 Sol0/8 passed\n\n### Missed requirements are the most common failure\n\nFailures are grouped by observed submission behavior using the same taxonomy across models, following [DeepSWE](https://arxiv.org/html/2607.07946v1#A3).\n\n#### Different models fail in different ways\n\nPercentages are out of each model's failed runs, not all runs.\n\n## 03Effort & the Frontier\n\n### Estimated rollout costs range from $2.50 to $6.96\n\n| Rank | Model | Estimated cost (USD) | \n|---|---|---|\n| 1 | Gemini 3.8 Flash | $2.50 | \n| 2 | GPT-5.6 Sol | $2.65 | \n| 3 | Muse Spark 1.3 | $2.74 | \n| 4 | Grok 4.6 | $3.44 | \n| 5 | Kimi K3 | $3.90 | \n| 6 | GPT-6 Astra | $4.67 | \n| 7 | GLM 5.3 | $5.12 | \n| 8 | Fable 5.1 | $6.96 | \n\nSwipe the chart to see all tasks.\n\n## View task values\n\n- Fable 5.134k\n- GPT-6 Astra13k\n- Gemini 3.8 Flash78k\n- GLM 5.368k\n- Grok 4.67k\n- Muse Spark 1.336k\n- Kimi K330k\n- GPT-5.6 Sol12k\n\n## 04Evaluation Setup\n\nEach agent was run in an isolated sandbox. All tasks are in Harbor format, and verifiers are injected at grading time. 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