SmellBench Refactoring (OpenHands) - Code Quality: leaderboard

Metric: Code quality score (0-100): readability and maintainability of the refactored code; an LLM judge (model not named) scores the refactoring against the smell analysis on a 0-10 rubric, normalized to 0-100; 294 injected-smell refactoring cases (7 smell types, 3 difficulty levels, guided and targeted instructions) in 7 real Python repositories, run once in the Harbor Docker framework with a 20-minute budget, OpenHands agent harness; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around December 2026. 6 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Claude Sonnet 4.567.79
2GPT-5 Mini61.46
3DeepSeek V3.258.01
4Qwen 3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct56.47
5Qwen 3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct46.49
6Gemini 2.5 Flash40.41

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