Terminal benchmark TB-fn: OpenAI and Anthropic maintain clear lead

abeirami · x · 2026-08-28

Fidian tested top 20 models from Terminal-Bench 2.1 on their TB-fn variant. Results show only OpenAI and Anthropic models remain on the frontier, widening the score gap from 15 to 22 points. GLM-5.3 leads open-weight models but falls further behind Sol max (gap increases from 1.0 to 8.6 points). Six models, including Grok 4.5 and Kimi K3, dropped 6-11 points. Per-attempt costs increased across the board on TB-fn.

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