SWE-bench Without the Price Tag

SWE-bench is the gold standard for evaluating AI coding agents — but running a full evaluation can cost hundreds of dollars in API calls. You don't need to run the full benchmark to get useful signal on how well an agent handles your kind of code. We cover techniques for cheap evaluation: running subsets that match your tech stack, using cheaper models for initial screening, caching common test patterns, and building custom mini-benchmarks that test what matters for your use case. Get 80% of the signal at 10% of the cost.