Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Finance

Legacy Core System Code Modernisation

Translates and documents old core banking code, such as COBOL, into modern languages and platforms.

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Named Models

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Candidate Models

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A general benchmark for this model class, not a test on this use case. Human-validated SWE-bench subset; near saturation at the top, contamination and test-design issues noted. %. Higher is better.

Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3-Coder-NextAlibaba (Qwen) vendor-reported70.6Mistral AIDevstral Medium 1.0Mistral AI vendor-reported61.6Mistral AIDevstral Small 1.1Mistral AI vendor-reported53.6JetBrainsMellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-ThinkingJetBrains vendor-reported47All Hands AIOpenHands LM 32B v0.1All Hands AI vendor-reported37.2
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JetBrainsMellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-ThinkingJetBrains, codeReleasedOct 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsByteDanceSeed-Coder-8B-InstructByteDance, codeReleasedJun 2025open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 monthsMoonshot AIKimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot AI, codeReleasedJun 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsAlibaba (Qwen)Qwen3-Coder-NextAlibaba (Qwen), codeReleasedFeb 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsMistral AIDevstral Small 1.1Mistral AI, codeReleasedJul 2025open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsBigCode (Hugging Face and ServiceNow)StarCoder2-15BBigCode (Hugging Face and ServiceNow), codeReleasedFeb 2024open weightsruns on edgehas scoresCognition (owns Windsurf)SWE-2Cognition (owns Windsurf), codeReleasedSep 2026has scoreslast 18 monthspoolsideLaguna S 2.1poolside, codeReleasedJul 2026open weightslast 18 monthsCohereNorth Mini CodeCohere, codeReleasedJun 2026open weightslast 18 monthsAnysphere (Cursor)Composer 2Anysphere (Cursor), codeReleasedMar 2026has scoreslast 18 months

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Derived, not researched: models in the directory whose class matches a class this use case uses, excluding family records and models shut down or deprecated. Ranked by how many fit facts they meet, then by release date. Each fit fact is read from the model record.

Sources

  1. deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/... https://www.deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/consulting/2026/ai-use-cases-fsi-2026.pdf

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Legacy Core System Code Modernisation", https://aurion.semai.id/usecases/fin-legacy-code-modernisation/, records of October 2026.