Verified but agingThis is an efficiency signal, so it belongs beside quality rather than being mistaken for quality.
source
BridgeBench
metric
Spend ($)
judge
Speed / cost
direction
lower better
group id
bridgebench_cost_spend_2026_05
domain
Coding
What it measures vs what it misses
✓ Measures
Aggregate dollars spent in the public BridgeBench cost run.
✗ Misses
Quality normalized by spend. Current provider contract pricing.
Why this countsIt tells you whether the model can generate, repair, and reason over code under evaluator pressure rather than marketing examples.Same-test ruleThis percentile only compares models inside the exact benchmark/version group shown here. It is not a universal score.What it missesIt does not fully capture repo-scale iteration, IDE ergonomics, or long debugging loops.