Fast local evaluation
Repeato’s own local vision algorithms handle frequent interactions, visual matching, and regression checks with fast feedback, predictable behavior, and no per-request model cost.
OpenAI GPT · Flagship · 2026-08-13
How GPT-5.6 Sol performed on screenshot-based UI grounding, element-presence, and visible layout-defect tasks relevant to test automation.
Requests were pinned to OpenAI infrastructure through OpenRouter. Fallbacks were disabled for every retained request.
Overall result
GPT-5.6 Sol hit 23 of 24 requested UI targets. Its balanced accuracy was 100% for element presence and 92% for layout-defect detection.
This dated pilot retained 24 grounding responses and 24 detection responses. No detection requests failed. Results describe this exact API model and test corpus, not general model quality or a consumer chat product.
Relative performance
Each scale compares the selected model with the strongest and weakest other model. All three metrics come from the same completed 24-case grounding run; stronger is always to the right.
UI grounding
Twenty-four targets span six deterministic desktop and mobile screens. A schema-valid point inside the requested target counts as a hit; box IoU measures localization precision.
Detection results
Separate balanced tasks measure whether the model rejects absent elements and distinguishes clean controls from screenshots containing one seeded layout defect.
Six present and six absent target queries per model. This track measures classification only.
Six clean controls and six screenshots with one seeded defect per model. Transport failures remain operational failures, not accuracy answers.
Why this research matters
Top vision LLMs can reason about complex visual meaning, but they are still too slow and expensive for every test step. This research helps us identify where their semantic capabilities justify that trade-off.
Repeato’s own local vision algorithms handle frequent interactions, visual matching, and regression checks with fast feedback, predictable behavior, and no per-request model cost.
Top vision LLMs are useful for more complicated questions: understanding meaning, checking dynamic content, describing defects, or evaluating concepts that cannot be captured by a simple visual fingerprint.
Benchmarking accuracy, latency, reliability, and cost helps us decide which checks should remain local and which benefit enough from an LLM to justify a slower, more expensive evaluation.
Use Repeato’s local computer vision as the fast foundation, then bring in top vision LLMs selectively for complicated or semantic reasoning where they provide meaningful additional value.
Test coverage
Every model is evaluated against the same frozen corpus, prompts, response schemas, and normalized 0–1000 geometry.
Desktop web with a clean control and a paired container clipping defect.
Desktop web with a clean control and a paired text overflow defect.
Desktop web with a clean control and a paired element overlap defect.