Boundary-Bench Open-Sourced: Enterprise Security Policies Spike Agent Costs by 40%
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-08-06
Existing agent leaderboards typically run with root access and an open internet, which no security team would approve. To address this, researchers open-sourced Boundary-Bench, a benchmark testing agent performance under realistic enterprise security restrictions.
Simulating environments with EDR, SASE, DLP, and egress proxies, the benchmark tested 12 frontier agents across roughly 10,000 runs. Key findings include:
- Agent running costs increase by an average of 40% under restrictions.
- A massive 7x cost gap exists between providers at similar success rates.
- Safety classifiers quietly consume or interfere with coding tasks.
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