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HumanEval

OpenAI

164 hand-written Python programming problems, each with a function signature, docstring and unit tests, introduced in the Codex paper in 2021. It was the original code-generation benchmark and most code-model papers still report pass@k on it, despite its small size and Python-only scope.

Verified 2026-08-13 via the openai/openai_humaneval dataset card on Hugging Face.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
MIT(OSI-style permissive, fully redistributable)
redistributability
full(downloadable parquet, no gating)
datasheet
yes(dataset card)
size
164 problems/test split
contamination
hand-written to avoid GitHub-dump overlap (per design)

Fully open: MIT license, ungated, downloadable, with a dataset card. Textbook open-data case for this category.

Adoption

4 high confidence
4.0

279,859 Hugging Face downloads in the trailing 30 days for openai/openai_humaneval, which puts it in the 100K-1M band, level 4 on the dataset adoption scale. That scale tops out at >1M, an order of magnitude below the ones used for software and models, because no dataset in this corpus has ever passed 10M downloads. HumanEval is the foundational code-generation benchmark: the pass@k metric originated here, and it is still reported in most code-model releases.

Capability

not assessed

A dataset is not 'capable', so this axis is left unscored. It is worth noting that HumanEval is now largely saturated and contaminated as a discriminator, but that is a quality caveat rather than a capability score.

Verified 2026-08-12