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ITBench

Diagnose root causes from offline Kubernetes incident data
56.2top score · GPT-5.6 Sol
37models ranked
17open-weights models
Precision at full recallhigher is better
Oct 20, 2026last updated

How the test works

1

Task

59 tasks

  • What the model doesDiagnose root causes from offline Kubernetes incident data
  • Kinds of tasksSite reliability incident diagnosis
  • In → outText, incident data → JSON diagnosis
2

Run

3 runs per task

  • Token budgetNon-reasoning: up to 16,384 output tokens, adjusted to model limits; reasoning: model-specific maximum
  • Temperature0 for non-reasoning; 0.6 for reasoning, unless the model lab recommends otherwise
3

Score

Precision at full recall

  • Graded byLLM-normalized entity matching; zero if any root cause is missed
  • Better isHigher

ITBench SRE leaderboardtop 10 of 37

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ModelITBench SREPer taskPriceSpeedSupportsContext
56.2max
$1.99$4 / $201141.05M
Step 5 PreviewStepFunOpen
55.6thinking
$1.03$1 / $2.70931M
52.5high
$1.24$0.75 / $3.751491M
51.2max
$0.28$0.15 / $0.501791M
51max
$1.40$2 / $121421.05M
49.5max
$7.63$10 / $50691M
GPT-6 SolOpenAI
49.4max
$1.04$2 / $101281.05M
48.6max
$3.26$10 / $50691.05M
Kimi K3Moonshot AIOpen
47.7max
$2.00$3 / $151121M
46.7max
—$5 / $25631M

ITBench questions

What is ITBench?›

Diagnose root causes from offline Kubernetes incident data. It has 59 tasks. Created by IBM Research (ITBench-AA with Artificial Analysis).

Which model is best on ITBench?›

GPT-5.6 Sol leads ITBench SRE with 56.2, ahead of Step 5 Preview (55.6) and Gemini 3.8 Flash (52.5).

What is the best open-weights model on ITBench?›

Step 5 Preview with 55.6, then GLM 5.3 Flash (51.2).

How is ITBench scored?›

Precision at full recall; llm-normalized entity matching; zero if any root cause is missed; 3 runs per task per task.