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Welcome to the comma.ai leaderboard! We designed these challenges around real problems we've faced while building and shipping openpilot. We hope you enjoy them. If you do and score well, you'll probably enjoy a job here. * Submit your solution here * Multiple submissions are allowed * Non-competitive scores will not be published * is an employee or intern score * Active challenges are still expected to be difficult * Archived challenges are (mostly) solved problems

🔗 hardware challenge
ACTIVE
HIRING
PRIZE
2026-06-23T00:00:00-07:00

find as many bugs as you can in our custom wire harness tester

$1000 prize - first submission with >21 bugs found CLAIMED by LK!

$1000 prize - highest score by 6/22 (must be >22)

	bugs	name
	24	AnasMalas
	24	LK 👑
	23	Milind220
	22	BradyMeighan
	21	leosteinberg 👑
	21	ProtonDev-sys
	21	DoubleGate
	20	probablyanasian
	20	delat
	20	i2cjak
	20	kumpulak
	20	daulet
	20	maddiedreese
	19	johannes-ece
	19	everythingapplejj
	19	MichaelIbrahim-GaTech
	18	MastroGippo
	18	dzid26
	18	LukasCollishawM
	18	reformedot
	18	kaileh57
	18	zacks-lab
	18	UberMetroid
	18	un-tag
	18	JX5S
	18	Champsmatter
	17	s-bashar
	17	gatordevin
	17	HueCodes
	16	ruselec 👑
	16	ashrey
	16	1kuna
	16	eyonce
	16	abhay
	16	eerwitt
	15	bjkayani
	15	0rln
	15	kattaliraees
	15	epowell40
	15	ganeshpimpale
	15	shellshock9001
	15	vedantsaran

🔗 video compression challenge
ACTIVE
HIRING

lossy video compression challenge

👑 challenge prize winner

💡 new approach

📖 best write-up

score	name	link
0.191	rhnerv_comma	#112
0.192	hnerv_fec6_fixed_huffman_k16	#110
0.193	hnerv_ft_microcodec 👑	#101
0.195	hnerv_lc_ac 👑	#103
0.195	hnerv_lc_v2_scale095_rplus1 👑	#102
0.195	hnerv_lc_v2 💡	#100
0.197	hnerv_muon_finetuned_from_pr95	#98
0.198	kitchen_sink	#105
0.199	hnerv_muon 💡 📖	#95
0.206	rem2_HNeRV	#96
0.209	belt_and_suspenders	#106
0.229	vibe_coder_final_boss	#97
0.229	apogee	#107
0.231	qhnerv_ft_best	#104
0.249	hpac_coder_hybrid	#91
0.258	adaptive_masking_joint_frame_model	#85
0.260	qzs3_range_joint_r258	#92
0.274	jas0xf_adversarial_neural_representation 💡	#86
0.275	adaptive_range_mask	#84
0.280	qrepro 💡	#90
0.288	qzs3_range_mask 💡	#81
0.315	qpose14_r55_segactions_minp	#79
0.315	qzs3_tile_delta_r147	#77
0.316	qpose14_qzs3_filmq9g_slsb1_r55	#67
0.320	henosis_qz_n3z_r25_clean	#65
0.321	flatpup	#93
0.325	qpose14	#63
0.331	unified_brotli	#64
0.333	quantizr 💡	#55
0.344	qpose14_poseq6	#76
0.368	ph4ntom_drv	#74
0.375	fp4_mask_gen	#62
0.382	selfcomp	#56
0.481	roro_perframe_hnerv	#119
0.602	mask2mask 💡	#53
0.717	tomasdousek	#71
1.236	codex_metric_yshift_av1 💡	#60
1.891	neural_inflate 💡	#49
1.914	svtav1_dilated_ren	#58
1.944	roi_v2	#48
1.947	av1_roi_lanczos_unsharp	#31
1.979	svtav1_av1grain_10bit	#51
1.981	damir_bearclaw_002 💡	#30
2.005	roi_gop300_c34	#43
2.020	v4_qp_aq2_roi 💡	#44
2.033	av1_crf31_bicubic	#52
2.052	svtav1_cheetah	#24
2.070	svtav1_45pct_unsharp20_direct	#27
2.083	svtav1_gop360_binomial_unsharp	#26
2.083	av1_sharp1_adaptive	#23
2.086	svtav1_45pct_unsharp 💡	#20
2.158	svtav1_spline_fg22	#37
2.200	svt_av1_lanczos_fg	#18
2.553	h265_g16_512x384_veryslow	#21
3.323	optimized	#22
3.833	delta_codec 💡	#61
4.390	baseline_fast	#1
5.086	damir_bearclaw_003	#39
25.000	no_compress	#0

🔗 controls challenge
ACTIVE
HIRING

design a controller to steer a (simulated) car

score	name	method
6.880	RyanL2 👑	per segment direct quadratic optimization
6.880	hypery11 👑	per segment direct quadratic optimization
6.880	pmazumder3927 👑	per segment direct quadratic optimization
7.228	Yezus69	per segment optimized actions
13.593	auriium2	per segment MPC
16.372	Ashray-g	per segment optimized actions
17.791	tfpgh	PGTO+BC distillation
19.620	Hi9173	online simulator probing with rng reset
29.371	nurikserikbayev	per segment optimized actions
29.549	hypery11	per segment optimized actions
35.967	haraschax	MPC+much compute
39.348	ksd3	per segment MPC
41.730	dynm	per-segment optimized blended controllers
42.206	utkarshgill	PPO+MPC
45.756	bheijden	PPO
46.92	Janaa19	per segment PID+FF with CEM
48.08	ellenjxu	custom feedback controller + evolution
48.461	Chep-koech	per-segment optimized blended controllers
48.474	TheConverseEngineer	tube MPC + 2dof PID
48.57	Quantizr	custom feedback controller
49.264	dumanah	MPC w diffusion style annealing
50.192	truefit-ai	custom PID + evolution
50.608	CheckmeowwwT	PID w FF
50.633	jonoomph	ML PID
50.716	felsager 👑	custom feedback controller
51.483	AnmolDeshmukh	Adaptive preview PID+CMA-ES
52.114	Jerenemy	Residual preview MPC
52.506	izzunnafis	custom feedback controller
53.050	Josemedinan	custom feedback controller
54.708	ch33nchan	adaptive PID
54.709	freeklinssen	adaptive PID
55.485	garrettpall	custom feedback controller
55.739	clouds1729	custom feedback controller + evolution
56.586	AnmolDeshmukh	PID w FF
56.849	armanjr	PID w FF
57.670	YasinSonmez	PID w FF
58.57	YashDYD	custom feedback controller
59.317	Parth171	custom feedback controller
59.811	avangerp	custom feedback controller
59.853	haraschax	custom feedback controller
59.862	tristan-yk	PID w FF
60.993	srikanth-444	PPO
61.783	xfqbuaa	custom PID
62.462	0xmmo	genetic algorithm
62.971	zachhaidari	PID w FF
63.793	fabP258	DOBC
64.042	avlord	PID w FF
66.165	CheckmeowwwT	PID w FF
67.329	ninohdasilva	PID w FF
67.355	kofteee	adaptive PID
68.055	matthiaspetry	custom feedback controller
68.942	Officially-Siddhant	custom PID
69.100	Vansh404	custom feedback controller + bayesian optimization
74.440	diegoruizpon	custom feedback controller
75.688	Sanjit1	custom feedback controller
76.644	jaumebalust	PID w FF
76.723	gcosentino	PID w FF
77.365	ZiZizou	custom PID
77.411	chinmayi-r	>PID w FF
78.590	hpoonawala	PID w FF
78.593	Havee005	PID w FF
78.862	hbarkh	PID w FF
78.868	yiannisha	bayesian optimization
79.316	chinmaymirji	PID+TD3
79.360	ffmiruz	MPC
80.828	donymorph	custom PID
83.568	jonoomph8	custom PID
88.774	Pranav-Malpure	custom PID
90.893	atharva10764	custom PID w FF
91.130	integ01	MPC
95.724	adhintz	auto-tuned PID
98.703	QuangTran1608	slsqp
100.445	pau-mensa	bayesian optimization
102.184	NikhilGangaram	custom PID
110.254	baseline	PID

🔗 commaVQ compression challenge
ACTIVE
HIRING

losslessly compress 5,000 minutes of driving data

score	name	method
4.0	pmazumder3927	arithmetic coding with commavq-gpt2m
3.4	szabolcs-cs	self-compressing neural network
3.0	SAT-oO	arithmetic coding with GPT
2.9	BradyWynn	arithmetic coding with GPT
2.7	ylevental	arithmetic coding with GPT
2.7	ksd3	arithmetic coding with GPT
2.6	pkourouklidis 👑	arithmetic coding with GPT
2.3	anonymous	zpaq
2.3	rostislav	zpaq
2.2	anonymous	zpaq
2.2	anonymous	zpaq
2.2	0x41head	zpaq
2.2	tillinf	zpaq
2.2	ylevental	zpaq
2.2	nuniesmith	zpaq
1.6	baseline	lzma

🔗 design challenge
ACTIVE

design a UI to communicate openpilot's confidence to the user

NOTE: the job has been filled, but the challenge is still active for the leaderboard

name	design
davidcalifornia	design
utkarshgill	design
hyusap	design
salfolio	design
dahsmartgirl	design
kalipeng	design

🔗 calibration challenge
ARCHIVED

predict the direction of travel (in camera frame) from provided dashcam video

	score	name
	5.33%	fredyshox
	9.4%	Boris
	10.0%	krikarls
	11.4%	Ritam
	18.5%	bongbui321
	18.7%	Nathan
	19.0%	MartinEthier
	19.0%	louislva
	19.6%	arshsinghal6
	19.6%	Yasin
	20.0%	RoyVorster
	20.0%	Roman
	20.22%	Armandpl
	20.5%	Herman
	24.8%	gijskoning