Claude Opus 5 Tops ProgramBench, Doubling Fully Resolved Tests

jyangballin · x · 2026-08-13

Claude Opus 5 (xhigh) takes the #1 spot on the ProgramBench benchmark, which tasks AI with rebuilding whole programs like sqlite and ffmpeg from scratch.

Every metric hit a record high: fully resolved tests (100% pass rate) jumped from 2 to 9 out of 200; near-perfect scores (>95% pass rate) increased from 33 to 74; and the average test pass rate rose from 70.9% to 74.7%.

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