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Last updated 2026-08-15 · benchmark checked 2026-09-16 · unchanged since 2026-08-15 — deterministic & reproducible

Workbench is a free, always-on cloud terminal accessible from any SSH client.

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Legit.Show scored workbench 82/100 on 2026-09-16, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/usebench-dev/2026-09-16

Is workbench production-ready?

Legit.Show scores workbench 82 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on workbench (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 96/100
• Accessibility — 90/100
• Security — 60/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 55/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 89/100
• Discoverability — 85/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 347 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 1 of 1 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Developers · Remote workers · DevOps engineers · Software teams · Open source contributors

Pricing

Free tier (1 vCPU, 1.5 GB RAM, 3-5 projects); $6/mo (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 8-10 projects)

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from usebench.dev's own website on 2026-08-15.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-16.

Put together from public information, without workbench's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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