Field noteOct 23, 20261 min read1 source

Artificial Analysis has released version 2.0 of its Coding Agent Index , with Claude Opus 5.5 running in Claude Code leading at 61.7.

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Artificial Analysis has released Coding Agent Index v2.0, a composite benchmark for coding-agent configurations.

What changed: Artificial Analysis has expanded its FrontierCode 1.1 leaderboard into Coding Agent Index v2.0, combining three benchmarks; Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code leads with a score of 61.7.

The index combines FrontierCode v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0, and SWE-Atlas-QnA-AA with equal weight. The source lists 100 FrontierCode tasks, 66 Terminal-Bench tasks, and 124 technical Q&A tasks in SWE-Atlas-QnA-AA.

Scores are the mean of three attempts per task. The published release summary identifies Claude Opus 5.5 running in Claude Code as the leading configuration, with a score of 61.7. The index page also presents per-benchmark results alongside API cost per task, token use, active agent wall time, safety-refusal rates, and reward-hacking results.

Artificial Analysis describes its cost measure as pay-per-token API cost, including cache pricing where applicable. It does not represent consumer subscription prices or full deployment cost; infrastructure, engineering, and supervision are excluded. Active runtime also excludes environment startup, verifier or judge time, and other harness overhead.

The index is a comparative measurement under its selected tasks, agent settings, and scoring rules. The source does not establish that the top-ranked configuration will perform best, cost least, or be most reliable in a particular production repository or workflow.

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  1. 1artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents
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