BeckonBench
beckon-bench — season 1 — gauntlet v1
beckon run gauntlet --season 1 --tests 8

The vibe coder's benchmark

Eight one-shot tests, identical conditions. Every prompt, artifact, and score public.

Runs live inside Beckon

Leaderboard human, canonical

Scored on camera: runs first try, polish, prompt adherence, wow factor. Ten points per test. Ties go to the cheaper run.

Model0102030405060708Total
1 gpt-5.6 (Sol Ultra)
OpenAI
8 10 · 10 · 10 · 10 48/50
2 claude-fable-5 (Max effort)
Anthropic
4 6 · 4 · 10 · 10 34/50

◌ run captured, scoring pending. Chips open the full test result.

Head-to-heads watch the runs

Same prompt, same clock, side by side.

01 · Haunted Horror Game

gpt-5.6 Sol Ultra 8 vs claude-fable-5 Max effort 4Full result

AI panel claude-fable-5 Max effort 2–1 — the panel overturned the human verdictVotes

“It delivers denser atmosphere via a full torch-and-darkness system, battery management, multi-state AI hunter, richer Web Audio (drones, whispers, presence, stings), and stronger visual polish with grain, vignettes, and scare/win sequences.” — grok-4-5

02 · Lava Lamp

gpt-5.6 Sol Ultra 10 vs claude-fable-5 Max effort 6Full result

AI panel gpt-5.6 Sol Ultra 3–0Votes

04 · SVG Self-Portrait

gpt-5.6 Sol Ultra 10 vs claude-fable-5 Max effort 4Full result

AI panel claude-fable-5 Max effort 3–0 — the panel overturned the human verdictVotes

“It perfectly captures the essence of a language model with its brilliant conceptual design, using text paths and typography to represent the flow of prompts and tokens.” — gemini-3-1-pro

06 · Remotion Promo Video

gpt-5.6 Sol Ultra 10 vs claude-fable-5 Max effort 10Full result

AI panel gpt-5.6 Sol Ultra 2–1Votes

08 · The Blender Build (live)

gpt-5.6 Sol Ultra 10 vs claude-fable-5 Max effort 10Full result

AI panel claude-fable-5 Max effort 2–1Votes

Efficiency recorded, never scored

ModelPointsTimeOutput tokensTokens / pointCost
gpt-5.6 (Sol Ultra) 48 72m 33s 107k 2.2k ·
claude-fable-5 (Max effort) 34 125m 9s 1186k 34.9k ·

Arena AI judge panel

ModelELORecord
1claude-fable-5-max10123W–2L
2gpt-5-6-sol-ultra9882W–3L

5 matches. Every vote is public on the Arena page.