Public prices involving METR
- Human expert baseline attempt on an 8-hour AI R&D task (METR RE-Bench)
Average paid per expert run; over the 8-hour budget this is about $232 an hour. An agent run of the same length cost about $123 in tokens.
The payer's own page, arXiv, RE-Bench (v2)
approximately $1,855per expert attempt (8-hour task)
- Human baseliner timing software and research tasks for METR's HCAST benchmark
With bonuses for fast, successful completion the total runs $75 to $250 an hour.
The payer's own page, arXiv, HCAST
between $50 - $100 per hour, plus $25 - $150 per hour in performance bonusesper hour (base, before bonuses)
- Private agent-evaluation task for METR, priced by the hours a professional would need to complete it
The later rule of METR's task bounty (paused to new submissions on 2024-11-18, over $100,000 paid out): a 10-hour task would earn $3,000. Per-task value depends on task length, which varies, so no per-task figure is derived.
The payer's own page, METR Task Development Guide, Introduction
$300 per hour it would take a professional to complete the taskper hour of professional time the task takes to complete
- One private agent-evaluation task implementation for METR that takes an experienced engineer about 10 hours (worked example)
METR, an evaluator that uses the tasks itself, pays the builder directly with no vendor in between: a base of 3x the human cost to solve the task, plus up to a 50% bonus. Tasks must stay off the public web and out of training data.
The payer's own page, METR, Bounty: Diverse hard tasks for LLM agents
the base price would be $3000 ... pay $4500 overallper task implementation
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