Alternatives to SWE-bench
SWE-bench and 3 alternative tools evaluated on the Tekai technology radar.
SWE-bench
SubjectA benchmark evaluating whether AI agents can resolve real-world GitHub issues by generating code patches that pass repository test suites.
open-source MIT
Alternatives
HCAST (Human-Calibrated Autonomy Software Tasks)
METR's primary benchmark measuring frontier AI autonomous software task completion, calibrated against 140 human experts across 189 tasks.
open-source MIT
Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)
A 2,500-question expert-level benchmark curated by ~1,000 specialists to measure AI capabilities where frontier models still score 40-50%.
open-source CC-BY-4.0
Inspect AI
An open-source LLM evaluation framework by the UK AI Safety Institute with 100+ pre-built evals for safety, coding, reasoning, and agent assessment.
open-source MIT
Comparison Summary
| Tool | Radar | Type | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench | assess | open-source | MIT |
| HCAST (Human-Calibrated Autonomy Software Tasks) | assess | open-source | MIT |
| Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) | assess | open-source | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Inspect AI | trial | open-source | MIT |