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SWE-Lancer

Current 198-task offline patch benchmark derived from paid Upwork work, with historical mixed implementation and manager-task variants.

Launched: Refresh: static
Status Assessment (deprecated):

The maintained leaderboard is frozen at July 2025 and narrows paper-era Diamond from 502 mixed tasks to 198 offline IC tasks, making unlabeled Diamond claims non-comparable.

Performance Timeline

Longitudinal progression of model scores against human baselines.

Performance & Historical Trajectory

Empirical score progression across model release dates and evaluation rounds.

Independent Vendor-Reported Human Baseline (88.2%)
ModelScoreDateSource TypeProvenance
GPT-4o (198-task Diamond offline)8.1%2024-06-01vendor-reportedSource ↗
o1 (198-task Diamond offline)28.4%2024-06-01vendor-reportedSource ↗

Human Baseline & Difficulty Horizon

Calibrated human reference points, specialist benchmarks, and ceiling thresholds.
Measured Human Score88.2%Domain Expert Baseline
Baseline Protocol & Interpretation

Commercial freelance software engineers completing real-world Upwork software engineering milestones.

Metric & Scoring Methodology

Verification protocols, aggregation formulas, and specialized metric variants.
Primary Metric:pass@1 accuracy on the 198-task Diamond offline subset (%)
Scoring Engine:unit-tests

Dataset & Compute Cost

Evaluation volume, public availability, API pricing, and local hardware requirements.
Total Dataset Size198Annotated evaluation items
Public Test SetPublicOpenly mirrored on repositories
Access GatingOpen AccessUnrestricted download
Evaluation LicenseOpen AccessDataset usage and redistribution terms
Frontier API Compute Cost:

$5 – $20 USD for full benchmark evaluation run on frontier APIs.

Recommended Local GPU Setup:

1x NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB) or A100 (40GB/80GB) via vLLM / SGLang

Official Dataset & Benchmark Files:Download / View Dataset Repository ↗

How to Run & Reproduce

Standardized evaluation protocols, CLI commands, and reproducible runner templates.
Prompt Regimezero-shot
Reasoning Modedirect
Sampling Temp0
Pass@k Budgetk = 1
Tools & SandboxPure Text
Scoring Verifierunit-tests
Option AEleutherAI LM-Evaluation-Harness (Open-Weight Models)
lm_eval --model hf --model_args pretrained=<model_path> --tasks swe-lancer --batch_size auto
Option BOpenCompass Evaluation Framework
opencompass --datasets swe-lancer --models <model_config>
Python APIDeterministic Inference Loop Snippet
# Standard API Evaluation Loop
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
    temperature=0.0,
)
Standardized Reporting Requirement:

When publishing results for SWE-Lancer, always report the exact prompt template, few-shot exemplar ordering, sampling temperature (temperature=0), maximum reasoning budget tokens, and the precise timestamped model snapshot ID.

Contamination & Memorization Analysis

Audit of pretraining exposure risks, memorization vectors, and refresh policies.
Overall Contamination Risk:MEDIUM
Refresh Cadence:

Static fixed snapshot

Test Set Exposure:

Public on web / HuggingFace