Long-Horizon Task Benchmark Exposes Model Weaknesses
iamfakhrealam · x · 2026-07-13
This post summarizes the results of the Long-Horizon Terminal-Bench, which tested 20 frontier models on 46 terminal tasks lasting up to 90 minutes.
Key takeaways:
- Grok 4.5 ranked first
- The best model only solved 13 out of 46 tasks
- 29 tasks were unsolved by any model
- About 55% of runs scored below 0.25
- Expensive models aren't necessarily better: Grok 4.5 costs $11 per task on average, while Claude Fable 5 costs $73
The author concludes that while models perform well on short tasks, they are still far from being "truly autonomous agents" in long-chain execution, debugging, error recovery, and completing complex work.
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