Who ranks #1 on the Terminal-Bench leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI ranks #1 on Terminal-Bench at 88.3%. API pricing is $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K3 is #1 for Terminal-Bench at 88.3%. Ranked by Terminal-Bench: can the model finish jobs in a real shell. 67 models in this index have a published Terminal-Bench score. Methodology: Terminal-Bench (https://www.tbench.ai/). Terminal-Bench leaderboard with live API prices. Terminal-Bench — tests an AI agent's ability to solve tasks using terminal commands and system administration. Official methodology: Terminal-Bench (https://www.tbench.ai/).
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As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI is #1 for Terminal-Bench at 88.3%. Ranked by Terminal-Bench: can the model finish jobs in a real shell. This board also tracks Terminal-Bench. Next on the same board: GLM-5.3 and Claude Mythos 5. This terminal-bench leaderboard ranks models by Terminal-Bench. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.
Sources: Terminal-Bench (https://www.tbench.ai/); OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)
| Rank | Model | Terminal-Bench | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi K3 | 88.3% | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| 2 | GLM-5.3 | 88.2% | $1.40 | $4.40 |
| 3 | Claude Mythos 5 | 88% | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| 4 | Qwen3.8 Max | 86.6% | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| 5 | GPT-5.5 | 84.7% | $5.00 | $30.00 |
| 6 | Grok 4.5 | 83.3% | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| 7 | GPT-5.4 | 81.8% | $2.50 | $15.00 |
| 8 | Claude Sonnet 5 | 80.4% | $2.00 | $10.00 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI ranks #1 on Terminal-Bench at 88.3%. API pricing is $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output.
The current Terminal-Bench ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Kimi K3 at 88.3%; 2. GLM-5.3 at 88.2%; 3. Claude Mythos 5 at 88%.
Qwen3.5-9B is the cheapest scored model on this terminal-bench leaderboard at $0.10/M input and $0.15/M output ($0.25 blended). Kimi K3 still leads Terminal-Bench at 88.3%.
Not automatically. Kimi K3 leads Terminal-Bench, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh Terminal-Bench against input/output price, context window, and related evals.
Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 20, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.
Terminal-Bench — tests an AI agent's ability to solve tasks using terminal commands and system administration. This page ranks models that have published a Terminal-Bench score, with live API token prices on the same row. Official methodology: Terminal-Bench (https://www.tbench.ai/).
This page is the Terminal-Bench leaderboard. Models are sorted by Terminal-Bench, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.
The official Terminal-Bench page owns the methodology. This page keeps the published Terminal-Bench score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number. Source: https://www.tbench.ai/