General Agents Benchmark

Tau-Bench Airline

τ-Bench Airline - function calling ability benchmark in an airline domain. Measures tool use with developer-defined function schemas.

Category

General Agents

Score type

percent

Scale

100%

higher is better

Models tested

3

What is Tau-Bench Airline?

τ-bench Airline is the airline variant of the τ-family: the model works as an assistant for an airline support team, booking flights and applying policies with the provided API tools while a simulated customer pushes the conversation around. Correct tool calls and respecting policy are what is graded.

What does it test?

Tau-Bench Airline measures how well a model acts as a general-purpose agent. In detail, it checks:

  • complex booking calculations and rules
  • strict adherence to airline policies
  • safe tool use in a customer-facing dialogue
  • multi-turn consistency across a long conversation

How to read the score

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Tau-Bench Airline benchmark?

τ-bench Airline is the airline variant of the τ-family: the model works as an assistant for an airline support team, booking flights and applying policies with the provided API tools while a simulated customer pushes the conversation around. Correct tool calls and respecting policy are what is graded.

What does Tau-Bench Airline test?

Tau-Bench Airline mainly measures how well a model acts as a general-purpose agent. Concretely, it checks: complex booking calculations and rules; strict adherence to airline policies; safe tool use in a customer-facing dialogue.

How is the Tau-Bench Airline score calculated?

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better. The declared maximum score of this benchmark is 100.0.

Where do I get Tau-Bench Airline data and scores?

The official source is https://github.com/sierra-research/tau-bench. The official benchmark page/reference is linked on this page. Every score on Open LLM Radar is also available as open data: download the scores JSON (http://open-llm-radar-api:8000/api/v1/benchmarks/tau-bench-airline/scores) or pull it directly from the Open LLM Radar API with any HTTP client.

Model scores 3 models tested

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# Model Score Date Source Verified
1 GPT-OSS-120B
OpenAI
49.2%
08.08.2025 Report Verified
2 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Qwen
49%
10.09.2025 Report Verified
3 GPT-OSS-20B
OpenAI
38%
05.08.2025 Report Verified

What now?

You've seen how models score on Tau-Bench Airline — here's what to do next.