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ai benchmarking platforms

Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.

horizontal · 106 members · Data as of 2026-10-14

AI benchmarking platforms evaluate, compare, and rank the performance of artificial intelligence models and autonomous agents across standardized tasks and interactive environments. They are primarily used by machine learning researchers, software engineers, and product teams looking to validate model capabilities before deployment. Unlike general observability or MLOps monitoring tools, these platforms focus on repeatable testing suites, competitive challenges, and leaderboards to objectively measure reasoning, coding, and decision-making skills.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
86
Prior count
17
Total count
106
Momentum
300.00
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Attention
0.57
Crowding
0.81
Low crowding
0.19
Concentration
0.81
Low concentration
0.19
Opportunity
0.49

Source split

github
39 (0.45)
hn
14 (0.16)
ph
23 (0.27)
yc
10 (0.12)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.34

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
AI Image Model Arena PH 1 2026-09-11
vibecoderjournal.com PH 1 2026-10-09
RepoGauntlet PH 1 2026-09-28
TheModelVerse-Model Catalog & Benchmarks PH 1 2026-10-10
AI Vibe Check PH 1 2026-09-25
Northarena PH 1 2026-10-08
Agenshive PH 1 2026-10-05
Benchmark Registry PH 1 2026-09-30
Image Model Leaderboard PH 1 2026-10-08
Unbenchmark PH 1 2026-09-22
The AI Leaderboard PH 1 2026-09-11
Coverage Cat AI Insurance Leaderboard YC 2 2026-07-22
LLMPvP PH 2 2026-09-29
GSPC open measurement board PH 2 2026-10-06
SealKeeper PH 2 2026-10-08
LLMBoard PH 3 2026-09-09
Koliseum by Kimpton, Live Evaluation Arenas for AI Models YC 3 2026-09-02
llmgames PH 3 2026-09-30
Parad.AI.se PH 3 2026-10-01
Silene Bench PH 4 2026-09-18
Pretty Bench PH 4 2026-09-18
Compute:Arena HN 5 2026-09-17
A benchmark for flight search intent HN 5 2026-09-03
Benchmark: AI doesn't find bugs unless you tell it what's wrong HN 5 2026-10-01
🎵 MusicArena - the arena for AI music-making 🎵 YC 5 2026-09-28
Moving Atoms : World Models for Robots YC 5 2026-08-17
Open Benchmarks Grants– a $3M commitment to close the AI eval gap HN 6 2026-02-11
OpenBenchmarks HN 6 2026-07-11
Trunchbull, run real models against any benchmark in your browser HN 6 2026-08-12
EvalRouter by Kimpton: One API for AI evaluation YC 6 2026-10-01
Buyout Game Benchmark: Multi-Agent Bargaining, Transfers, and Takeovers HN 6 2026-03-30
SOCBench HN 6 2026-07-07
Wizwand - Discover SOTA research papers on AI and Machine Learning YC 6 2026-02-25
Terminal-Wrench, a dataset of 331 realistic hackable environments HN 6 2026-04-15
Inferbench, collect/share datapoints on GPU's inference performance HN 7 2025-12-10
Wage Against the Machine HN 8 2026-08-01
elk-ai-test-set GITHUB 8 2026-09-09
Feedback Bench by Enterpret PH 8 2026-10-07
Can you beat frontier LLMs at social strategy games? | Multi-Agent Arena by Olam Labs, evaluating through multi-agent simulations YC 9 2026-08-05
ParseBench HN 9 2026-04-13
RewardHackBench: Using sandboxes to stop agents from cheating HN 9 2026-06-17
AI Trolley Problem Arena HN 9 2025-12-16
I built a game where AI agents compete to ship code HN 10 2026-05-06
disk-covering-benchmark GITHUB 10 2026-09-30
siliconflow-dev.github.io GITHUB 10 2026-09-21
meshybench GITHUB 11 2026-09-20
Black-box API bug detection across 7 AI systems HN 11 2026-06-04
edit-drift GITHUB 11 2026-10-07
Claude Code Token Elo HN 11 2026-03-10
EurekaBench GITHUB 11 2026-09-30