App-Bench
App-Bench evaluates how well AI coding agents generate real full-stack web apps from single prompts. Tests 6 production apps across healthcare, finance, legal, and education domains with 4,530+ evaluations.
About App-Bench
App-Bench is a benchmark designed to evaluate how well AI-driven coding agents can automatically build modern, full-stack web applications from a single natural language prompt. Created by AfterQuery (a Y Combinator-backed research lab), it tests agents on economically important domains including healthcare, real estate, finance, legal services, and education.
The benchmark consists of 6 full-stack web applications: Financial Dashboard (Bloomberg-style terminal), Hospital Dashboard (multi-role patient tracking), Legal Assistant (RAG-based with voice), Pharmacy System (multi-user platform), Drawing Game (multiplayer real-time), and Rental Booking (Airbnb-style marketplace). Each task exercises core production features: integrated AI assistants, real-time synchronization, multi-role logic, automated triggers, and robust authentication flows.
Two experienced full-stack developers manually grade each trajectory against a detailed rubric. Each tool receives three attempts per task, with the best-performing run used for final scoring. Across 151 rubric items × 3 attempts × 10 tools = 4,530 evaluations. The best-performing builder (Orchids) achieved 76.8% accuracy, while even top performers left significant gaps in production-ready features.
Key Features
- Full-Stack Evaluation: Tests real web apps with multi-user flows, AI integrations, and complex state management.
- Domain Variety: Covers healthcare, finance, legal, education, and real estate scenarios.
- Rubric-Based Scoring: 151 criteria manually graded by experienced developers for accuracy.
- Multiple Attempts: Three runs per task with best-run scoring to reduce variance.
- Production Focus: Evaluates features separating prototypes from shippable products.
- Public Leaderboard: Comparative results across 10+ coding agents and builders.
Pricing
App-Bench is a free, open research benchmark. No pricing or paid tiers are offered. Results, methodology, and leaderboards are publicly accessible.
Pricing last updated: February 11, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Use Cases
- Benchmark AI coding agents before adoption for production use
- Compare web-based prompt-to-app builders vs CLI code agents
- Identify common failure modes in AI-generated applications
- Track improvements across agent/model versions over time
- Evaluate tools for internal tooling and enterprise development decisions
Pros & Cons
Pros:
- Focuses on real full-stack apps rather than toy coding tasks
- Manual expert grading ensures high-quality evaluation standards
- Multiple attempts per task reduces randomness in scoring
- Covers complex production features like multi-role workflows and real-time sync
- Public leaderboard enables transparent comparison across tools
Cons:
- Limited to 6 app tasks (though each is complex and comprehensive)
- Manual evaluation process doesn't scale to frequent testing
- Best-performing agents still achieve only ~77% feature completion
- No self-service benchmark execution; results are published periodically
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