2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly generate executable visual artifacts, yet established code benchmarks largely overlook the visual fidelity and interaction behavior that shape user experience. We introduce ArtifactsBench, a benchmark and automated multimodal evaluation framework for visual code generation. The framework executes each artifact and records three staged screenshots—before, during, and after a scripted interaction—then scores the evidence and source code with a checklist-guided Multimodal LLM (MLLM) referee. ArtifactsBench contains 1,825 tasks across nine domains and evaluates more than 30 LLMs. On a 280-query, six-model expert study, three staged screenshots yield 90.95% referee–human Pair ACC. Across the models shared with WebDev Arena, ArtifactsBench reaches 94.4% normalized Footrule consistency with that public human-preference ranking. We release the benchmark, evaluation harness, and baseline results at https://artifactsbenchmark.github.io/.