Toptal's ExpertCrowd, HUD Launch ExpertCrowd-SWE Coding Benchmark
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San Francisco – November 06, 2026 -- ExpertCrowd, Toptal's AI model training platform, and Y Combinator-backed HUD have released ExpertCrowd-SWE, a software engineering benchmark that evaluates frontier-grade large language models (LLMs) and coding agents.
Toptal engineers wrote the tasks and grading rubrics
Engineers from Toptal's network of domain experts authored the benchmark's tasks and grading rubrics. HUD's infrastructure then hosted the task-run environments and verified the benchmarks through its internal quality assurance pipelines.
HUD and Toptal AI research teams reviewed the methodology and results. The teams include more than a dozen PhDs and researchers with academic or professional experience at Harvard, EPFL, the University of Liège, DeepMind, Qwen and ByteDance.