Proximal

Name: Proximal
Brand: Proxima Wellness Hub

Proximal is a research organization that builds data and infrastructure to support training and evaluation of long-horizon, coding-capable agents, producing benchmark artifacts and data-engine methods for scalable collection and automated evaluation.

Valuation $300M

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	Proximal (proximal.ai)	Mercor APEX (bench operator)	DeepSWE (benchmark)
Starting Price	Not published; appears custom via Order Form/MSA	Not published publicly in sources reviewed	Not applicable (research benchmark/paper)
Suitable For	Frontier model labs needing novel coding data and/or long-horizon evaluation artifacts (e.g., FrontierSWE)	Teams wanting third-party benchmark runs and explicit methodology transparency across multiple benchmarks	Researchers/teams evaluating long-horizon engineering tasks with broader task sets
Key Strength	Produces high-difficulty, less-saturated long-horizon benchmark artifacts; engineering-focused approach	Independent operator perspective; explicitly notes harness/methodology differences and can provide alternative scoring	Academic/research framing with larger task coverage and peer-review-style documentation
Key Weakness	Limited public evidence of enterprise product maturity, pricing, certifications, and customer reviews	May produce scores that differ from vendor leaderboards (comparability challenges); commercial details unclear	Benchmark validity debates exist in the ecosystem; verification challenges are discussed in community forums

	Proximal (proximal.ai)	Mercor APEX (bench operator)	DeepSWE (benchmark)
Starting Price	Not published; appears custom via Order Form/MSA	Not published publicly in sources reviewed	Not applicable (research benchmark/paper)
Suitable For	Frontier model labs needing novel coding data and/or long-horizon evaluation artifacts (e.g., FrontierSWE)	Teams wanting third-party benchmark runs and explicit methodology transparency across multiple benchmarks	Researchers/teams evaluating long-horizon engineering tasks with broader task sets
Key Strength	Produces high-difficulty, less-saturated long-horizon benchmark artifacts; engineering-focused approach	Independent operator perspective; explicitly notes harness/methodology differences and can provide alternative scoring	Academic/research framing with larger task coverage and peer-review-style documentation
Key Weakness	Limited public evidence of enterprise product maturity, pricing, certifications, and customer reviews	May produce scores that differ from vendor leaderboards (comparability challenges); commercial details unclear	Benchmark validity debates exist in the ecosystem; verification challenges are discussed in community forums

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