Synonyms of benchmarks

benchmarks

noun

plural of benchmark

as in standards

something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared

this prize-winning biography will be the benchmark against which all others will be judged in future years

Synonyms & Similar Words

• standards
• criteria
• metrics
• measures
• yardsticks
• barometers
• examples
• grades
• touchstones
• norms
• rules
• pars
• instances
• gold standards
• bars
• averages
• marks
• pinnacles
• cases
• summits
• peaks
• meridians
• zeniths
• apexes
• acmes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deviations
• abnormalities
• aberrations

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of benchmarks

For all the public, open source repos where most of the benchmarks are run, every single model has basically memorized the repo. — ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026

The Kospi has become one of the world’s most volatile major benchmarks, with leveraged trading amplifying swings. — Winnie Hsu, Fortune, 19 July 2026

Wang disputed this claim, countering that loan interest rates are determined by national capital markets and industry benchmarks. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 19 July 2026

Both benchmarks are now at their highest prices since June 15, and today marks Brent’s largest single-day jump since May 2020. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 13 July 2026

Both benchmarks fell to around $70 in early August, after peaking at more than $110 in late March and early April. — Tucker Reals, CBS News, 13 July 2026

The model was trained on 150 million samples and achieved leading results across 12 of 16 depth completion benchmarks, demonstrating stronger accuracy and reliability in real-world perception tasks. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 July 2026

Some of the benchmarks for measuring the region’s success won’t be available until after the tournament, but to Hunt and Illig, Kansas City delivered. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026

The flagship Sol model nearly matches Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on the AI Index but costs one-third less, also leading in coding benchmarks. — Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026