aiqbench analysis
Grok 4.7 demonstrates improved efficiency on Senior SWE-Bench, achieving a tasteful pass@3 of 40.0% at roughly one-third the cost of competing frontier models like Opus 4.8. This performance highlights the growing viability of specific coding agents for complex software engineering tasks where cost-per-trial is a critical operational metric. The benchmark's focus on real-world pull requests and code quality further validates these results as meaningful indicators of practical engineering capability rather than synthetic benchmarks.
Grok 4.7 on Senior SWE-Bench: Strong pass@3, Cheaper Cost per Trial

Grok 4.7 was evaluated on Senior SWE-Bench, our benchmark for measuring whether coding agents work like senior engineers. It reaches a tasteful pass@3 of 40.0%, up from 38.9% for Grok 4.6, ranking sixth overall at $0.24 per trial, which is a fraction of the cost compared to Opus 4.8. Benchmark Senior SWE-Bench evaluates agents as compared to a senior engineer.... The post Grok 4.7 on Senior SWE-Bench: Strong pass@3, Cheaper Cost per Trial appeared first on Snorkel AI.
Grok 4.7 was evaluated on Senior SWE-Bench, our benchmark for measuring whether coding agents work like senior engineers. It reaches a tasteful pass@3 of 40.0%, up from 38.9% for Grok 4.6, ranking sixth overall at $0.24 per trial, which is a fraction of the cost compared to Opus 4.8. Senior SWE-Bench evaluates agents as compared to a…
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