AI models benchmarked with Pac Man
AI models benchmarked with Pac Man Rob Beschizza 7:44 am Wed Sep 30, 2026 Claude's winning effort at Pac Man PacBench is an unusual benchmark for AI models: "Create a Pac-Man game in a single html page." Each entry shows the platform, the model, how long it took, how many tokens it used, and the cost. And unlike the pelican, we can play the results. Claude does best, with Opus 5.5 getting it nearly perfect in 9 minutes at a cost of $1.99.
- ▪AI models benchmarked with Pac Man Rob Beschizza 7:44 am Wed Sep 30, 2026 Claude's winning effort at Pac Man PacBench is an unusual benchmark for AI models: "Create a Pac-Man game in a single html page." Each entry shows the platform, the m
- ▪And unlike the pelican, we can play the results.
- ▪Claude does best, with Opus 5.5 getting it nearly perfect in 9 minutes at a cost of $1.99.
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AI models benchmarked with Pac Man Rob Beschizza 7:44 am Wed Sep 30, 2026 Claude's winning effort at Pac Man PacBench is an unusual benchmark for AI models: "Create a Pac-Man game in a single html page." Each entry shows the platform, the model, how long it took, how many tokens it used, and the cost. And unlike the pelican, we can play the results. Claude does best, with Opus 5.5 getting it nearly perfect in 9 minutes at a cost of $1.99. Using Fable just runs up the tab ($5.87!), takes longer, and gets a couple of things wrong. Grok and GPT did pretty good (and the latter bangs it out for pennies) but it's already starting to feel like "Adobe Flash implementation circa 2005" and things get strange and broken therafter.
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