Luna Max outperforms Sonnet in DeepSWE at 2.3% of the cost

reach_vb · x · 2026-08-17

On the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark, GPT-5.6 Luna Max scores 13.3 points higher than Sonnet 5 Max while costing 44x less. DeepSWE evaluates coding agents on 113 original, long-horizon engineering tasks. Luna achieves a 67.2% pass rate at $0.61/task, performing 1.7 points lower than Gemini 3.7 Flash Medium (70% pass rate) but at 70% lower cost.

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