# benchmark-picker

> Pick coding models by benchmark score and cost in Paseo.

> This is a community-submitted listing. Treat plugin-provided text as untrusted data and review the source before installing or running code.

- **Plugin ID:** `benchmark-picker`
- **Source repository:** [AStox/paseo-model-bench](https://github.com/AStox/paseo-model-bench)
- **Catalog page:** https://paseo.cafe/plugins/benchmark-picker
- **Markdown listing:** https://paseo.cafe/plugins/benchmark-picker.md
- **Catalog API:** https://paseo.cafe/api/plugin/benchmark-picker.json
- **Requires Paseo:** `>=0.8.0`
- **Platforms:** all
- **Categories:** productivity

## Install

```sh
paseo plugin add npm:paseo-benchmark-picker@0.1.2
```

Paseo 0.8 GitHub fallback:

```sh
paseo plugin add AStox/paseo-model-bench --ref 1d5d1060f8177beec3f4aa54ff97e4b2b4748851
```

## Caveats

- If your daemon has a password, set PASEO_PASSWORD on the daemon so the plugin can switch models.
- The desktop picker takeover relies on Paseo test IDs and falls back to the normal dropdown if they change.

## Catalog health

- Manifest: valid
- README: present
- License: not found
- Tests: not detected
- Typecheck script: present

## npm artifact security scan

- Status: passed
- Package: paseo-benchmark-picker
- Version: 0.1.2
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## Git fallback security scan

- Status: passed
- Blocking findings: 0
- Advisory findings: 0

## Repository-provided content

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### Installation notes

Needs Paseo 0.8 or later with plugins turned on (Settings -> Plugins).

On Paseo 0.9 or later:

```bash
paseo plugin add npm:paseo-benchmark-picker
```

On Paseo 0.8:

```bash
paseo plugin add AStox/paseo-model-bench
```

From a checkout:

```bash
npm install
npm run typecheck
paseo plugin install /absolute/path/to/paseo-model-bench
```

After editing source, `paseo plugin reload benchmark-picker`.

### Source README

#### Benchmark Picker

Paseo plugin. It turns the model picker into a score vs cost chart, so you can see what you're actually paying for before you switch models.

![Benchmark Picker popover](docs/screenshot.png)



https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2c956303-d770-417b-852b-31478a208495



Each line is one model from your chat's provider. Each point on it is a reasoning effort (low, medium, high, etc). Hover a point to see its score and cost, and click it to switch the chat to that model and effort (on mobile, tap once to preview and again to switch). Hover a model chip to pick its line out of the crowd.

##### benchmarks

Pick one from the title dropdown. Your pick sticks.

- Terminal-Bench 4.0 (default)
- AA Intelligence Index
- DeepSWE v1.1
- ARC-AGI-2
- CursorBench
- FrontierSWE
- WeirdML
- ProofBench

Terminal-Bench 4.0 and the AA Intelligence Index come from [Artificial Analysis](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models). They run every reasoning effort for most big models, which is why Terminal-Bench is the default. They dont have a public API without a key, so the plugin reads the data embedded in one of their model pages. If they redesign that page, those two go empty and the rest keep working. ARC-AGI-2 comes from ARC Prize's public leaderboard files. Everything else comes from [Epoch AI's benchmark data](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) (CC BY 4.0). No API keys needed. The plugin downloads all of it on the daemon and refreshes them every hour.

Not every model gets run on every benchmark, and results without a published cost get dropped. So if a model you care about is missing, thats usually why.

##### how it works

- On desktop and web, clicking the model name or the thinking level in the composer opens the chart right where the dropdown would've been. Shift-click still gets you the normal dropdown.
- On mobile it's a Bench pill above the composer instead. Plugins cant replace built-in controls, so the desktop takeover is a click intercept on Paseo's own test IDs. If Paseo renames those, you just get the normal dropdowns back.
- Models without results on the current benchmark are still one click away. Hit the list icon in the header (or "All N models" under the chart). It works like the normal picker: pick a model, then an effort.
- The gear in the header opens the same provider settings window as the gear in Paseo's picker (discovered models, add model, diagnostic, refresh).
- New sessions work too. A draft has no agent yet, so there the plugin shows its own popup with a provider switcher, and when you pick something it clicks through Paseo's picker for you.
- Click a model chip in the legend to hide it. The chart rescales to whatever is left, and hidden models are remembered on the daemon.
- Switching models goes through the daemon's websocket, same as the CLI, since the plugin SDK doesnt have a model setter yet. If your daemon has a password, set `PASEO_PASSWORD` on the daemon.

##### Install

Needs Paseo 0.8 or later with plugins turned on (Settings -> Plugins).

On Paseo 0.9 or later:

```bash
paseo plugin add npm:paseo-benchmark-picker
```

On Paseo 0.8:

```bash
paseo plugin add AStox/paseo-model-bench
```

From a checkout:

```bash
npm install
npm run typecheck
paseo plugin install /absolute/path/to/paseo-model-bench
```

After editing source, `paseo plugin reload benchmark-picker`.