The Bingo Board
Agentic coding, graded.
Every model and harness that matters, scored across five real-world dimensions. The facts sync themselves; the grades are mine.
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› How we got here
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2024-06
The autocomplete ceiling
Copilot-style completion was the state of the art. The model suggested; you typed.
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2025-02
Agents enter the chat
First wave of agentic CLIs. Models started running commands, reading repos, and iterating.
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2025-09
The harness wars begin
Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and the open-source harnesses split the field. The harness became as important as the model.
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2026-01
Reasoning tiers everywhere
Low to extra-high reasoning dials, ultracode, fast variants. One model became five depending on how hard you let it think.
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2026-06
Where we are now
Million-token contexts, multi-agent orchestration, models that rewrite whole apps. This board tracks who is actually good at what.
Top of the board
Claude Fable 5
Best aggregate grade across all five dimensions.
Best value
Composer 2.5
Frontier-class coding for about seven cents a task.
Best plan for the money
Codex Pro, $100
Frontier coding without the $200 ceiling. The plan I run.
My daily driver
Claude Opus 4.8
What I reach for when it has to ship.
The board
16 of 16 graded
| Model | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GPT-5.5 OpenAI | A+ | A+ | A+ | A | A |
GPT-5.4 OpenAI | A | A | A | A | A+ |
GPT-5.3 Codex OpenAI | A | A | B+ | B+ | A |
GPT-5.3 Codex Spark OpenAI | B+ | B | B | B | B+ |
GPT-5.2 Codex OpenAI | B+ | B+ | B | B | B+ |
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic | S | S | S | A+ | A+ |
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | A+ | S | A+ | A+ | S |
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic | A+ | A+ | A | A | A+ |
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic | B+ | B+ | A | A | A |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | B+ | B+ | A | A | A |
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic | B | B | B+ | B+ | A |
Composer 2.5 Cursor | A | A | B | B | B+ |
Composer 2.5 Fast Cursor | A | B+ | B | B | B+ |
Gemini 3.5 Flash | A | B+ | A | A | A |
Gemini 3.5 Pro | A | A | A+ | A+ | A |
Grok 4.3 xAI | B+ | B | B+ | B+ | B+ |