Higher Intelligence at lower cost.Same model, same agent.
Our research delivers gains while keepingthe model weights and agent harness fixed.
Customer serviceSOTAPerformance
With TTC55.3%
Financial research+13 ppPerformance gain
0.4×the cost
Coding+5 ppPerformance gain
0.6×the cost
IT operations+10 ppPerformance gain
With TTC63.8%
Benchmark results
Explore the results
4 distinct use cases, 7 agents evaluated, over 307B tokens.
Customer Service
Test Time Cognition achieves SOTA performance.
55.3% SOTAPerformance
Baseline · Opus 5 from Sierra
TTC: Qwen + Grok
TTC = Test Time Cognition
τ-knowledge
Coding
Test Time Cognition achieves higher performance at lower cost.
+5.2 ppPerformance
38.5%Lower cost
Baseline: GPT-5 · MiniMax
TTC: GPT-5 + MiniMax
TTC = Test Time Cognition
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · mini-SWE-agent 2.2.1
Financial Research
Test Time Cognition achieves higher performance at lower cost.
+13.0 ppPerformance
58.6%Avg. cost reduction
Baseline: Kimi K3 · DeepSeek V4 Flash
Same models + TTC
TTC = Test Time Cognition
Finance Agent V2
IT Operations
Test Time Cognition achieves higher performance on IT operations tasks.
+10.0 ppPerformance
Baseline: Sonnet 5.5 · GPT-6 Luna · DeepSeek V4 Flash
Same models + TTC
TTC = Test Time Cognition
ITBench-AA
Key insights
Insights from our evaluation program
Insight 01
Test Time Cognition is a new scaling axis
For years, AI has scaled along two axes: more training data and bigger models.
Test Time Cognition adds a third scaling axis: the compute an agent spends at test time. On Terminal-Bench 2.0, more compute translates directly into higher performance: Test Time Cognition outperforms GPT‑5 at every reasoning effort, while costing less than GPT‑5 at medium or high effort.
Test Time Cognition solves problems in 40% fewer steps
Smarter decisions at each step result in a faster path to the solution. Aggregated over 40 configurations and nearly 10,000 trajectories on Terminal-Bench 2.0, agents with Test Time Cognition take 40% fewer steps per attempt.
Test Time Cognition gains most on medium-hard problems
Test Time Cognition delivers its largest gains on medium-hard problems. Aggregated over the same 40 configurations and nearly 10,000 trajectories, it lifts performance on medium problems by 15.5 points.
Each benchmark in full: every configuration we ran, what it cost, and how it performed problem by problem.
Appendix
How we evaluate
We evaluate autonomous agents with room to work through a task, using the same evaluation protocol to compare baseline performance with Test Time Cognition.
Room to complete the task
We use generous time and step limits so agents can pursue longer solutions. The goal is to measure task-solving performance with enough room for the agent to finish, rather than have tight execution limits determine the outcome.
Repeated trials
Our standard protocol uses three samples per problem and configuration. Repeated attempts help account for variation between runs.
Framework and sandboxes
We use the Harbor framework to run and evaluate tasks, with execution environments hosted in Daytona sandboxes.