Best AI model for Synthwave

The prompt — what I asked each model

Every model on this page got the same fixed prompt inside the Agent Operating System: Synthwave — sunset-grid synthwave loop.

Single HTML file out. No iteration. No "best of N." No examples in the system prompt. Whatever each model produced on the first run is what's on this page. 23 models have attempted it so far — GLM-5.2, Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 5, DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Claude Fable 5, Fugu Ultra, Fugu Mini, Fusion, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok, Inkling, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K2.7 · Fast, Kimi K2.7 · No-Think, Kimi K2.7 · Quality, MiniMax M3, Hermes MoA, Opus 4.8, Qwen 3.8, Qwen 3.7, Claude Sonnet 5.

What counts as winning here

This is the visual category on Goldie Bench. The question isn't "did the model write code that compiles" — the question is "did the model ship a thing you'd actually use." For Synthwave that means three things, in order:

1. Does it run? Drop the .html file in a browser. If it opens to a broken page, it scores zero on the first axis.
2. Did it hit the brief? The prompt asks for a specific thing. A model that ships a different thing — however polished — gets docked on the brief axis.
3. Does it look good? Visual polish, motion, interactivity, attention to detail. This is where the difference between gold and silver usually lives.

Final score is my honest 0–10 across all three axes, averaged. Across the 18 models I've scored on this task so far, the average score is 8.09/10.

How I tested this — the methodology in 60 seconds

Every comparison on Goldie Bench follows the same recipe:

1. I pick a creative coding prompt that a frontier model should be able to ship in one shot.
2. I dispatch the exact same prompt to each model from the kanban inside the Agent Operating System.
3. I save whatever .html file the model produced on the first run. No iteration. No coaching.
4. I score each result 0–10 on my three axes (runs / hits the brief / looks good).
5. I publish the scores publicly in the source comparison guides on agentos.guide — and that's what feeds this page.

See the methodology page for full data provenance, including which source guides each cell's score came from.

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