🥇 #1 Open-Source Model on OSWorld Leaderboard (Jan 2026)
📢 Updates
2026.03.31: EvoCUA-32B achieves 56.48% on WindowsAgentArena (WAA), surpassing the base model Qwen3-VL-32B-Thinking (42.9%) by ~13.6 points and UI-TARS-2 (50.6%) by ~6 points — demonstrating strong zero-shot cross-OS generalization 🆕
2026.03.31: Independent safety study by Yoshua Bengio & Dawn Song's teams (arXiv:2602.08235) shows EvoCUA-32B has the lowest unintended-behavior rate (35.0%) among all tested CUAs — the safest agent! 🆕
2026.01.13: Released EvoCUA-8B-20260105 — achieves 46.1% on OSWorld, competitive with 72B-level models using fewer parameters!
2026.01.05: Released EvoCUA-32B-20260105 with 56.7% on OSWorld, achieving #1 among open-source models 🥇
🌟 Highlights
🥇 #1 Open-Source Model on OSWorld: Achieves 56.7% task completion rate, #1 among all open-source models
📈 Significant Improvements: +11.7% over OpenCUA-72B (45.0%→56.7%), +15.1% over Qwen3-VL thinking (41.6%→56.7%), with fewer parameters and half the steps
🖥️ End-to-End Multi-Turn Automation: Operates Chrome, Excel, PowerPoint, VSCode and more through screenshots and natural language instructions
🧠 Novel Training Method: Our data synthesis and training approach consistently improves Computer Use capability across multiple open-source VLMs without degrading general performance
📊 Performance Comparison
Rank
Model
Open/Closed
Type
Max Steps
Score
1
Claude-sonnet-4-5
🔒 Closed
General
100
62.9%
2
Seed-1.8
🔒 Closed
General
100
61.9%
3
Claude-sonnet-4-5
🔒 Closed
General
50
58.1%
4
EvoCUA-20260105 (Ours)
🟢 Open
General
50
56.7% 🥇
5
DeepMiner-Mano-72B
🔒 Closed
Specialized
100
53.9%
6
UI-TARS-2-2509
🔒 Closed
General
100
53.1%
7
EvoCUA (Previous Version)
🔒 Closed
General
50
50.3%
8
EvoCUA-8B-20260105 (Ours)
🟢 Open
General
50
46.1%
9
OpenCUA-72B
🟢 Open
Specialized
100
45.0%
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13
Qwen3-VL-Flash
🔒 Closed
General
100
41.6%
EvoCUA is #1 among all open-source models, achieving competitive results with only 50 steps. Human-level performance remains significantly higher, indicating substantial room for improvement.
Zero-shot Cross-OS Control (WindowsAgentArena)
We evaluated EvoCUA on WindowsAgentArena (WAA) to test generalization from the Linux-based training environment to a wholly different OS platform. As shown below, EvoCUA-32B reaches 56.48%, surpassing the base model Qwen3-VL-32B-Thinking (42.9%) by ~13.6 points and the leading frontier GUI agent UI-TARS-2 (50.6%) by nearly 6 points.
Model
WAA
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct
30.9% [1]
Qwen3-VL-32B-Thinking (Base)
42.9% [1]
UI-TARS-2
50.6% [2]
EvoCUA-32B (Ours)
56.48%
[1] Bai et al., Qwen3-VL Technical Report (arXiv:2511.21631, 2025).
[2] Wang et al., UI-TARS-2 Technical Report (arXiv:2509.02544, 2025).
Safety — Robustness to Unintended Behaviors
A recent study by Jones et al. (2026) from Yoshua Bengio and Dawn Song's teams systematically evaluated the safety of leading CUAs. They transferred 117 human-verified perturbations (benign but tricky instructions) to multiple target agents, executing each instruction 3 times and reporting the percentage that elicits unintended behavior in ≥ 1 run. EvoCUA-32B achieves the lowest overall rate (35.0%), demonstrating the strongest robustness among all tested CUAs.
Transferability Study Results (Table 2 from the paper)
Target Agent
Claude 4.5 Haiku
Claude 4.5 Opus
Overall
Open-Source CUAs
EvoCUA-8B
20.0
50.7
37.6
EvoCUA-32B (Ours)
24.0
43.3
35.0 🥇
OpenCUA-7B
42.0
50.7
47.0
OpenCUA-32B
42.0
44.8
43.6
OpenCUA-72B
50.0
56.7
53.8
Closed-Source CUAs
Claude 4.5 Sonnet
32.0
47.8
41.0
Operator
38.0
56.7
48.7
Lower is safer. EvoCUA-32B has the lowest overall unintended-behavior rate among all tested agents.
[3] Jones et al., When Benign Inputs Lead to Severe Harms: Eliciting Unsafe Unintended Behaviors of Computer-Use Agents (arXiv:2602.08235, 2026).
OSWorld is the most influential benchmark in the Computer Use Agent domain. It is adopted by leading AI organizations including OpenAI, Anthropic, ByteDance Seed, Moonshot AI, Zhipu AI, Step, and more. OSWorld evaluates agents' ability to complete real-world computer tasks through multi-turn interactions with actual desktop environments.
🚀 More Model Sizes: More models of various sizes are on the way!
🙏 Acknowledgements
We sincerely thank the open-source community for their outstanding contributions to the Computer Use Agent field. We are grateful to Xinyuan Wang (OpenCUA) and Tianbao Xie (OSWorld) for their insightful discussions, valuable feedback on evaluation, and continuous support throughout this project. Their pioneering work has greatly inspired and advanced our research. We are committed to giving back to the community and will continue to open-source our research to advance the field.
📝 Citation
If you find EvoCUA useful in your research, please consider citing:
bibtex
1@article{xue2026evocua,
2 title={EvoCUA: Evolving Computer Use Agents via Learning from Scalable Synthetic Experience},
3 author={Xue, Taofeng and Peng, Chong and Huang, Mianqiu and Guo, Linsen and Han, Tiancheng and Wang, Haozhe and Wang, Jianing and Zhang, Xiaocheng and Yang, Xin and Zhao, Dengchang and others},
4 journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15876},
5 year={2026}
6}
📜 License
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.