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Ship-Bench: Benchmarks

Ship-Bench tests if AI agents and coding tools can actually ship realistic software. It evaluates LLMs across a full agentic SDLC workflow: planning, architecture, UX/design, implementation, and QA.

An AI Benchmark That Tests Real Coding Workflows
Developers face a real choice: pick a coding model or agent based on synthetic benchmarks that look great but do not predict actual project work. The problem is no longer whether models can score well
Apr 19, 20268 min read41
Can Gemma 4 Beat Gemini 3.1 Pro at Coding?
Is a $20/month Google AI Pro account worth it versus running Gemma 4 31B on OpenRouter pay-as-you-go? This Ship-Bench run was designed to answer that question across a realistic coding workflow rather
Apr 27, 202611 min read41
Do Open Frontier Models Have A Chance Against Closed Models ?
Which of the new open-ish frontier models has the best chance to stand up against closed-source models on both cost and quality? I ran Ship-Bench against Kimi K2.6, Qwen 3.6 Plus, and DeepSeek v4 Pro
May 13, 202612 min read33
Can the Mid-Tier Models Stack Up Against the Bigger Siblings?
Can you really justify paying flagship prices when the mid-tier models may already be good enough? The original comparison started with Gemini 3 Flash vs. Claude Sonnet 4.6, then Gemini 3.5 Flash arri
Jun 1, 202613 min read19
Can Fable 5 Finish Off the Other Frontiers?
Can Anthropic's Fable 5 justify its staggering cost and live up to the massive hype to unseat the top specialized models? I ran Ship-Bench against the model to find out, stacking it up directly agains
Jun 15, 202612 min read22
Does Grok 4.5 Deliver Opus Results at a Fraction of the Price?
Can Grok 4.5 deliver an Opus-class agentic coding result without the premium frontier price tag? I ran Ship-Bench against Grok 4.5 using Grok Build to find out, looking at whether xAI’s latest model c
Jul 31, 202612 min read15

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