Can a frontier model build a physical-looking thing — a CAD part from four drawings, a voxel galleon from one sentence? These two benchmarks measure exactly that, each with its own method. We show their own order and numbers, credited and linked; neither feeds the SI Score.
Why outside the SI Score? The SI Score ranks models on published text benchmarks. Spatial building has no widely adopted, openly licensed numeric feed yet: BenchCAD's scores here are largely lab self-reports (marked per row), and MineBench's order is human preference, not accuracy. Featuring them separately keeps the composite clean while still showing who builds well.
Vision2Code: four orthographic views in, a CadQuery program out. The metric is voxel IoU — the executed program's solid compared voxel-by-voxel against the ground-truth part; programs that fail to execute score 0 (IoU-score = voxel IoU × exec rate). In the with tools setting the model gets a Python sandbox to render, measure and iterate before submitting. The two settings are different evaluations and are never merged.
* BenchCAD lists Claude Fable 5.1 at 92.6% with tools (Anthropic's Opus 5.5 system card, fig. 8.13.2.A). OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch post quotes 84.3% for the same model — we show the benchmark's number and keep both contexts visible. Lab-reported rows are vendor self-reported voxel IoU, not re-graded by BenchCAD; Anthropic's figures use a random 1,000-file subset, so their split is not the same as the no-tools column beside them.
GPT-6 Astra has no published no-tools score, so it appears only in the with-tools table. Data: BenchCAD (CC BY 4.0), snapshot Oct 9, 2026. Machine-readable source.
Models build Minecraft-style voxel structures from a text prompt. There is no objectively correct answer: visitors compare two anonymous builds and vote, and a global Bradley–Terry model turns those votes into a rating on a 400-point Elo scale with a 95% confidence interval. Snapshot of the public leaderboard, Oct 9, 2026.
Top 15 of 72 ranked models in our snapshot. The live board moves with every vote.
Real builds the top five models' three strongest prompts — drag to orbit, pinch or scroll to zoom
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An underwater shipwreck: a wooden galleon on its side on the ocean floor, holes in the hull, coral and seaweed growing on it, treasure chests spilling gold, and fish swimming around
A floating island ecosystem: a chunk of earth suspended in air with waterfalls pouring off multiple edges, a small forest on top, exposed roots and rocks hanging underneath, and smaller floating rocks nearby connected by ancient chain bridges
A treehouse village: three large treehouses in adjacent trees connected by rope bridges, each house with different architecture (one rustic, one elvish with curved lines, one modern with clean angles), rope ladders down, and lanterns hanging from branches
A treehouse village: three large treehouses in adjacent trees connected by rope bridges, each house with different architecture (one rustic, one elvish with curved lines, one modern with clean angles), rope ladders down, and lanterns hanging from branches
An underwater shipwreck: a wooden galleon on its side on the ocean floor, holes in the hull, coral and seaweed growing on it, treasure chests spilling gold, and fish swimming around
A floating island ecosystem: a chunk of earth suspended in air with waterfalls pouring off multiple edges, a small forest on top, exposed roots and rocks hanging underneath, and smaller floating rocks nearby connected by ancient chain bridges
A classic arcade cabinet with a joystick and three buttons on the control panel, a screen showing simple graphics, coin slot on the front, and artwork on the sides
A massive world tree: an enormous trunk with roots visible above ground forming archways, multiple levels of thick branches like platforms, glowing fruit hanging from smaller branches, and vines draping down
A steampunk airship with a wooden hull, large brass propellers on each side, a balloon made of patchwork fabric above the deck, hanging ropes and ladders, and a glass-enclosed bridge at the front
A phoenix rising from flames: wings fully spread upward, tail feathers flowing down like fire, head raised to the sky, made of red, orange, and gold blocks with glowstone accents
An underwater shipwreck: a wooden galleon on its side on the ocean floor, holes in the hull, coral and seaweed growing on it, treasure chests spilling gold, and fish swimming around
The builds are the byte-exact artifacts MineBench serves its own visitors (checks SHA-verified), shown with flat colors — MineBench's Faithful texture pack is separately licensed and not redistributed. Block colors are our approximation. Builds carry no stated license on the host; the MineBench repo is MIT. Credit: MineBench by Ammaar Alam.
Sources and licenses
BenchCAD — programmatic CAD benchmark (Vision2Code, Vision QA, Code QA, Code Edit). Scores from the public leaderboard JSON; benchmark data is CC BY 4.0, code MIT. Rows marked “Lab-reported” are vendor self-reports, not re-graded; others are BenchCAD's own runs.
Leaderboard · Repo · Dataset · snapshot Oct 9, 2026
MineBench by Ammaar Alam — voxel building arena, blind human votes scored with a global Bradley–Terry model. Leaderboard order and the 15 builds shown are a one-time manual snapshot from the public pages, credited per build; hosted outputs carry no stated license, the repo is MIT.
Site · Leaderboard · Repo (MIT) · snapshot Oct 9, 2026
Both snapshots refresh manually, on occasion — they are not part of the daily pipeline. Model names link to our catalog pages only where the benchmark's name matches a cataloged model.