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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.

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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.

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Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
AA-Briefcase: a frontier knowledge work evaluation HN 13 2026-06-18
Robocurve — Real-World Evaluations of Physical AI YC 12 2026-08-27
ManiLoop GITHUB 12 2026-09-16
Claude Code Token Elo HN 11 2026-03-10
meshybench GITHUB 11 2026-09-20
JevPokerBench GITHUB 11 2026-09-21
Real-SWE: A coding benchmark built from private company codebases YC 11 2026-09-10
edit-drift GITHUB 11 2026-10-07
Kagento HN 11 2026-03-27
EurekaBench GITHUB 11 2026-09-30
Black-box API bug detection across 7 AI systems HN 11 2026-06-04
siliconflow-dev.github.io GITHUB 10 2026-09-21
I built a game where AI agents compete to ship code HN 10 2026-05-06
disk-covering-benchmark GITHUB 10 2026-09-30
ParseBench HN 9 2026-04-13
RewardHackBench: Using sandboxes to stop agents from cheating HN 9 2026-06-17
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
AI Trolley Problem Arena HN 9 2025-12-16
Feedback Bench by Enterpret PH 8 2026-10-07
Wage Against the Machine HN 8 2026-08-01
elk-ai-test-set GITHUB 8 2026-09-09
Inferbench, collect/share datapoints on GPU's inference performance HN 7 2025-12-10
EvalRouter by Kimpton: One API for AI evaluation YC 6 2026-10-01
OpenBenchmarks HN 6 2026-07-11
SOCBench HN 6 2026-07-07
Terminal-Wrench, a dataset of 331 realistic hackable environments HN 6 2026-04-15
Buyout Game Benchmark: Multi-Agent Bargaining, Transfers, and Takeovers HN 6 2026-03-30
Open Benchmarks Grants– a $3M commitment to close the AI eval gap HN 6 2026-02-11
Wizwand - Discover SOTA research papers on AI and Machine Learning YC 6 2026-02-25
Trunchbull, run real models against any benchmark in your browser HN 6 2026-08-12
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
Compute:Arena HN 5 2026-09-17
🎵 MusicArena - the arena for AI music-making 🎵 YC 5 2026-09-28
Moving Atoms : World Models for Robots YC 5 2026-08-17
Silene Bench PH 4 2026-09-18
Pretty Bench PH 4 2026-09-18
Koliseum by Kimpton, Live Evaluation Arenas for AI Models YC 3 2026-09-02
LLMBoard PH 3 2026-09-09
llmgames PH 3 2026-09-30
Parad.AI.se PH 3 2026-10-01
LLMPvP PH 2 2026-09-29
Coverage Cat AI Insurance Leaderboard YC 2 2026-07-22
SealKeeper PH 2 2026-10-08
GSPC open measurement board PH 2 2026-10-06
The AI Leaderboard PH 1 2026-09-11
Benchmark Registry PH 1 2026-09-30
TheModelVerse-Model Catalog & Benchmarks PH 1 2026-10-10
vibecoderjournal.com PH 1 2026-10-09
Northarena PH 1 2026-10-08