SmellBench Refactoring (Qwen Code) - Structural Soundness: leaderboard

SmellBench (2026, code refactoring) injects code smells into clean code from seven real Python repositories and asks a code agent to remove them; it is unrelated to the SmellBench board on architectural smell repair. This board is an LLM judge rating from 0 to 100 of whether the refactored structure is correct and well decomposed, over 294 cases with the Qwen Code agent harness; higher is better.

Metric: Structural soundness score (0-100): correctness and rationality of the refactored structure; 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, Qwen Code agent harness; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 6 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Sonnet 4.564.05#250
2GPT-5 Mini48.71#348
3Qwen 3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct39.9#643
4Gemini 2.5 Flash37.35#453
5Qwen 3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct35.74#972
6DeepSeek V3.232.48#406

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

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