~ same prompt, different LLM — every model gets the same brief in Blender, you judge the render ~
OpenAI / GPT 6 Astra / thinking:max has entered the arena NEW!
ARCHIVEDRetired from the leaderboard and voting — smoke-test scene — capability sanity check, not part of the benchmark · 2026-07-20. Preserved here for reference only.
Render Window — hero
hero render
camera + framing set up by the AI contestant
3D Viewport — red-ball User Persp
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$0.03Cost
36sDuration
5Tool calls
6Turns
Blender 5.1.0MCP 1.22026-07-15
Tokens: 31042/2785Vision: Votes W-L-T: 0-0-0DONE ✓
B-BENCH — TRANSCRIPT OpenAI / GPT 5.6 Luna · r1 · 2026-07-15
RUN LOG — red-ball · OpenAI / GPT 5.6 Luna · r1 · ok
SYSTEM PROMPTthe control — every model on this task got these instructions
PROMPTblender-bench v6HARNESSraw-v1
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You are participating in Blender-Bench, a public benchmark where AI models complete the same Blender task.

Your result will be compared head-to-head with another model. Anyone on the internet can vote, based only on the published visual outputs they can inspect: the interactive 3D scene and rendered presentation.

Complete the request as well as you can. The benchmark does not prescribe a workflow or visual style; use whichever Blender techniques you consider appropriate. Make the important requirements evident in the published result, save a complete scene, and present the work clearly in every requested output.

## Harness Instructions

You are operating Blender through the provided tools. The scene starts empty. Build what the user's prompt asks for in the current scene. Work step by step and verify your own work. Before you finish, set up a camera and lighting to frame a single, well-composed presentation image of your result — position and aim the camera, and add or adjust lights so the subject reads clearly. When you are finished, reply with the single word DONE and no tool calls.
--TASK red-ball: ## Task Complete the following Blender task: <task> A red sphere of 1 meter diameter resting on a white ground plane — touching it exactly, neither floating nor sunk. Smooth shading, a plain red material on the ball, plain white on the floor. The floor is the sphere, the color, and the contact. The ceiling is presentation: a soft believable shadow under the ball, a hint of glossiness that catc…
58:41>>execute_blender_code({"code":"import bpy, math\nfrom mathutils import Vector\n# clear\nbpy.ops.object.select_all(action='SELECT')\nbpy.ops.object.delete(use_global=False)\nfor datablocks in (bpy.data.meshes, bpy.data.curves, bpy.data.materials, bpy.data.cameras, bpy.data.lights):\n pass\n# render settings\nscene=bpy.context.scene\nscene.render.engine='BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT'\nscene.render.resolution_x=700\nscene.render…)
58:41<<Error executing code: Communication error with Blender: Code execution error: bpy_struct: item.attr = val: enum "BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT" not found in ('BLENDER_EEVEE', 'BLENDER_WORKBENCH', 'CYCLES')
58:46>>execute_blender_code({"code":"import bpy\nfrom mathutils import Vector\nbpy.ops.object.select_all(action='SELECT'); bpy.ops.object.delete(use_global=False)\nscene=bpy.context.scene\nscene.render.engine='BLENDER_EEVEE'\nscene.render.resolution_x=700; scene.render.resolution_y=700; scene.render.resolution_percentage=100\nscene.render.image_settings.file_format='PNG'; scene.render.filepath='/tmp/red_sphere_presentation.p…)
58:46<<Error executing code: Communication error with Blender: Code execution error: Error: Cannot open file <repo>\apps\console\tmp\red_sphere_scene.blend@ for writing: No such file or directory
58:48>>execute_blender_code({"code":"import bpy\nscene=bpy.context.scene\nscene.render.filepath='//red_sphere_presentation.png'\nbpy.ops.wm.save_as_mainfile(filepath='//red_sphere_scene.blend')\nbpy.ops.render.render(write_still=True)\n","user_prompt":"Save and render the completed red sphere presentation scene."})
58:49<<Code executed successfully: Info: Saved as "red_sphere_scene.blend"
58:50>>get_viewport_screenshot({"max_size":700,"user_prompt":"Verify the completed red sphere scene and presentation framing."})
58:51<<
58:51imgimage delivered — get_viewport_screenshot
58:55>>get_scene_info({"user_prompt":"Verify object dimensions, materials, camera, and lighting in the finished sphere scene."})
58:55<<{ "name": "Scene", "object_count": 6, "objects": [ { "name": "White Ground Plane", "type": "MESH", "location": [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 ] }, { "name": "Red Sphere (1m Diameter)", "type": "MESH", "location": [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.5 ] }, { "name": "Presentation Camera", "type": "CAMER…
58:58ai>DONE
58:58--status: ok · DONE declared
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