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gpt-5.6-sol

gpt-5.6-sol · medium, showing overall score. Results for all tested efforts are available below.

Overall score71.80

gpt-5.6-sol · medium

Backend engineering
73
Frontend interaction
83
Knowledge & Reasoning
70
Visual aesthetics
68
Maintainability
59
Evaluation time
59m 12s
Reference cost
$1.72

Complete evaluation · API reference cost

Backend tested · 9/21/2026Tasks & methodology

Results by reasoning effort

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Model / effortOverallBackend engineeringFrontend interactionKnowledge & ReasoningVisual aestheticsMaintainabilityTotal eval. timeTotal ref. costCompare
66.70697860666441m 49s$1.53
71.80738370685959m 12s$1.72
73.70789065736458m 24s$2.05
66.60786565616171m 19s$2.56
74.15857375666487m 21s$3.25

Score breakdown

Overall score
71.80
Evaluation time
59m 12s
Reference cost
$1.72

Service logic, error handling, and test verification.

Contracts and boundaries12 / 20

API contracts, input validation, and boundary behavior.

Retries and failures17 / 20

Error recovery, retry conditions, and failure handling.

CI and adversarial review12 / 20

Verification plans, risk detection, and audit evidence.

Transactions and consistency15 / 20

State transitions, concurrency control, and data consistency.

Caching and regression17 / 20

Cache invalidation, data updates, and regression coverage.

What changes with higher reasoning effort

Compare overall scores, cost, and time across neighboring tested efforts.

low medium
Overall
+5.1 pts
66.70 71.80
Reference cost
+$0.19
$1.53 $1.72
Evaluation time
+41.6%
41m 49s 59m 12s
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Data snapshot published · 10/27/2026Scoring & cost notes