Benchmark checker Agents and computer use

Is Remote Labor Index still meaningful?

Still useful Checked against the report, 5 November 2026

Yes. It is one of the few tests where the best agent still fails most tasks.

Why still useful: The best agent automates only 21.25% of projects (Sep 2026), so the frontier still spreads out.^{[1][1] Benchmark data bundle Epoch AI Primary}

What “Still useful” means

Known problems

The launch best was only 2.5%, so the scale is coarse.^{[2][2] Remote Labor Index, arXiv 2510.26787 Primary}
On 5 November 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 led at 21.25%, just ahead of GPT-6 Astra at 20.83%. Claude Fable 5.1 (17.92%) and Gemini 4 Argon (17.08%) followed.^{[1][1] Benchmark data bundle Epoch AI Primary}

What to look at instead

The report names no direct successor.

Where it appears in the report

Chapter 1, Benchmarks

Figure 1. Each New Benchmark Fills Up Faster Than the Last
Figure 4. Best score on benchmarks that still resist, November 2026
Figure 8. The best agent now completes about one in five paid freelance projects
Table 2. First model to cross each threshold in “Go deeper: The full saturation timeline (14 benchmarks)”
Table 3. How each area replaced its saturated benchmarks, oldest first in “Go deeper: Lineage of replacements, by area”
Table 7. General and computer-use agent benchmarks, November 2026 in “Go deeper: General and computer-use agent benchmarks (18)”

Sources

Copied from the chapter source lists. Each number links back to the source in its chapter.

[1]
Benchmark data bundle, Epoch AI. Dated scores (5 Nov 2026) and ceilings for most benchmarks here. Primary epoch.ai Chapter 1, source 1
[2]
Remote Labor Index, arXiv 2510.26787. It describes the projects and the launch automation rate. Primary arxiv.org Chapter 1, source 58