The median wall clock time is 87.0 seconds per prompt, with a tenth percentile of 49.4 seconds and a ninetieth percentile of 137.1 seconds across 45 recorded executions.

How reliable is Trickle?

51.1% of recorded executions met the published pass criterion with no operator intervention. 11 were partial and 11 failed outright. Every one of those rows is published on this page.

Can I export the code from Trickle?

No clean self host path. The code ownership subscore is 45.0 out of 100.

fullstack-builder / rank 40 of 41 / cycle 04

Trickle benchmark

The best public page output in the lower half, with real server rendered text and clean metadata, which lifts its SEO subscore well above its neighbours. Everything behind the marketing surface is thin: no key management, no signed webhooks and no durable background work.

Last run: 14 Aug 2026 17:40 UTCNext scheduled run: 21 Aug 2026 09:00 UTCOfficial site Trickle reviews and ratings

Composite index

55.45

of 100 | ▲ 1 versus cycle 03

At a glance

Composite index

55.45

rank 40 of 41

Rank

#40

of 41 measured builders

Median speed

87.0 s

p10 49.4 s, p90 137.1 s

Reliability

51.1%

strict pass rate

SEO score

63.0

0 to 100, SEO and GEO axis

Three strongest axes

Design output79.0
Value75.0
SEO and GEO63.0

Three weakest axes

Speed36.1
API and MCP41.0
Code ownership45.0

Median per prompt

87.0 s

p10 49.4 s, p90 137.1 s

Strict pass rate

51.1%

23 pass, 11 partial, 11 fail

Executions recorded

5 runs of 9 prompts

Entry price

EUR 15.00

Cheapest plan that can finish the specification

Per axis subscores

Composite recomputed from these ten rows: 55.45. That is the arithmetic behind the index, and you can repeat it by hand.

Weight table

Per axis subscores against the roster median, and weighted contribution
Axis	Score	Median	Weight %	Contribution
Agent performance	62.0	75.0	18	11.16
Reliability	51.1	71.1	18	9.20
Scalability	52.0	70.0	13	6.76
SEO and GEO	63.0	58.0	12	7.56
API and MCP	41.0	62.0	9	3.69
Integrations	49.0	66.0	8	3.92
Design output	79.0	71.0	7	5.53
Speed	36.1	33.0	7	2.53
Value	75.0	76.0	5	3.75
Code ownership	45.0	90.0	3	1.35

Speed distribution

Every recorded prompt duration for Trickle, in seconds. The cyan tick on the whisker is the median.

min 32.6 smax 204.4 s

Spread against the cohort

p10 49.4 s / median 87.0 s / p90 137.1 s

Scale is shared with every product in the cohort, so the bars are directly comparable between pages. Ratio of p90 to median is 1.58x.

Outcome split

23 pass / 11 partial / 11 fail

SEO and GEO measurements

Taken from the public marketing page this product generated in prompt 8, fetched with JavaScript disabled.

SEO and GEO leaderboard

HTML bytes, no JS

15.0 KB

15,360 bytes of real text content with scripts blocked

LCP

2,260 ms

Throttled connection, cold cache

CLS

0.070

Cumulative layout shift on load

SEO and GEO subscore

63.0

0 to 100, worth 12 index points

Raw run data: 45 executions

One row per prompt execution. Nothing is aggregated away, nothing is hidden, including the failures.

JSON

Raw per run measurements
Run	Prompt	Prompt target	Started	Duration (s)	Outcome	Note
R01	P01	Tenant and user model	11 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC	78.6	pass
R01	P02	Authentication and session	11 Aug 2026 08:03 UTC	131.4	partial	Validation added on the write path only. Read path left unguarded.
R01	P03	Projects CRUD with tenancy	11 Aug 2026 08:07 UTC	107.1	pass
R01	P04	Public REST API with keys	11 Aug 2026 08:11 UTC	109.2	fail	Task abandoned by the agent with no artifact produced.
R01	P05	Outbound webhooks with signatures	11 Aug 2026 08:15 UTC	96.4	pass
R01	P06	Background jobs	11 Aug 2026 08:18 UTC	60.8	fail	Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled.
R01	P07	Admin panel	11 Aug 2026 08:21 UTC	90.4	pass
R01	P08	Public marketing surface	11 Aug 2026 08:25 UTC	39.0	pass
R01	P09	Hardening pass	11 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC	114.6	fail	Task abandoned by the agent with no artifact produced.
R02	P01	Tenant and user model	12 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC	87.0	pass
R02	P02	Authentication and session	12 Aug 2026 08:03 UTC	85.8	pass
R02	P03	Projects CRUD with tenancy	12 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC	46.4	pass
R02	P04	Public REST API with keys	12 Aug 2026 08:09 UTC	133.3	partial	Pagination off by one at the final page boundary.
R02	P05	Outbound webhooks with signatures	12 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC	106.7	partial	Validation added on the write path only. Read path left unguarded.
R02	P06	Background jobs	12 Aug 2026 08:17 UTC	79.2	fail	Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled.
R02	P07	Admin panel	12 Aug 2026 08:20 UTC	85.1	pass
R02	P08	Public marketing surface	12 Aug 2026 08:24 UTC	34.0	pass
R02	P09	Hardening pass	12 Aug 2026 08:26 UTC	73.1	fail	Task abandoned by the agent with no artifact produced.
R03	P01	Tenant and user model	13 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC	87.1	partial	Validation added on the write path only. Read path left unguarded.
R03	P02	Authentication and session	13 Aug 2026 08:03 UTC	77.7	pass
R03	P03	Projects CRUD with tenancy	13 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC	79.3	partial	Required one clarifying instruction before the criterion was met.
R03	P04	Public REST API with keys	13 Aug 2026 08:10 UTC	61.7	partial	Error envelope inconsistent between two of the endpoints.
R03	P05	Outbound webhooks with signatures	13 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC	119.4	fail	Generated migration conflicted with the existing schema and was not reconciled.
R03	P06	Background jobs	13 Aug 2026 08:17 UTC	122.0	fail	Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled.
R03	P07	Admin panel	13 Aug 2026 08:21 UTC	90.1	pass
R03	P08	Public marketing surface	13 Aug 2026 08:24 UTC	80.2	pass
R03	P09	Hardening pass	13 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC	73.8	fail	Task abandoned by the agent with no artifact produced.
R04	P01	Tenant and user model	14 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC	32.6	fail	Agent looped on the same edit for the full timeout window of 20 minutes.
R04	P02	Authentication and session	14 Aug 2026 08:02 UTC	93.1	pass
R04	P03	Projects CRUD with tenancy	14 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC	53.9	pass
R04	P04	Public REST API with keys	14 Aug 2026 08:08 UTC	151.7	pass
R04	P05	Outbound webhooks with signatures	14 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC	136.4	pass
R04	P06	Background jobs	14 Aug 2026 08:17 UTC	74.3	fail	Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled.
R04	P07	Admin panel	14 Aug 2026 08:21 UTC	106.8	pass
R04	P08	Public marketing surface	14 Aug 2026 08:24 UTC	69.1	pass
R04	P09	Hardening pass	14 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC	137.5	partial	Error envelope inconsistent between two of the endpoints.
R05	P01	Tenant and user model	15 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC	64.0	partial	Required one clarifying instruction before the criterion was met.
R05	P02	Authentication and session	15 Aug 2026 08:03 UTC	56.4	pass
R05	P03	Projects CRUD with tenancy	15 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC	152.3	partial	Pagination off by one at the final page boundary.
R05	P04	Public REST API with keys	15 Aug 2026 08:10 UTC	38.0	partial	Delivered the main path, missed the boundary case named in the pass criteria.
R05	P05	Outbound webhooks with signatures	15 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC	204.4	pass
R05	P06	Background jobs	15 Aug 2026 08:18 UTC	117.0	fail	Background jobs are out of scope for the platform. Nothing queued, nothing scheduled.
R05	P07	Admin panel	15 Aug 2026 08:22 UTC	204.0	pass
R05	P08	Public marketing surface	15 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC	81.0	partial	Error envelope inconsistent between two of the endpoints.
R05	P09	Hardening pass	15 Aug 2026 08:31 UTC	104.2	pass

Pricing

Free tier for public pages. Paid plans from EUR 15 per month.

Entry price: EUR 15.00
Value subscore: 75.0
Index points per euro: 3.70

Capabilities as measured

stack: Site oriented platform with a light data layer
deploy: Hosted only
database: Built in collections
auth: Basic
background jobs: No
webhooks: Inbound only
rest api: Read mostly
mcp server: No
export code: No clean self host path
custom domain: Yes on paid plans
ssr: Server rendered public pages

Screenshot

Trickle landing page, captured by the lab on 14 Aug 2026 at 1440 by 900. Stored locally, never hotlinked.

Trickle landing page, captured by the lab at 1440 by 900

Trickle, captured 14 Aug 2026.

Sources and fetch dates

Every claim on this page traces to one of these.

Sources with fetch dates
Source	URL	Fetched
Trickle pricing page	https://trickle.so/pricing	14 Aug 2026
Trickle product site	https://trickle.so	14 Aug 2026
LLM Tier run harness output	https://www.llm-tier.com/api/runs.json	14 Aug 2026

Rich results carry this composite as 2.8 on a 0 to 5 scale because that is the only scale the format accepts. The number on this page, 0 to 100, is the real one.

Trickle head to head

mocha vs trickle

Reader index

Voted by readers with an account, one score per person per axis. Published beside the lab index, never inside it.

Score it or read the notes

Reader index

not rated yet

Lab index

55.45

2 readers have scored 100% of the index weight so far. A reader index is published at 3 voters and 50% coverage.

Reader mean against the measured lab subscore for each axis
Axis	Weight	Lab	Readers	Votes
Agent performance	18%	62.0	57.0	2
Reliability	18%	51.1	41.0	2
Scalability	13%	52.0	48.0	2
SEO and GEO	12%	63.0	59.0	2
API and MCP	9%	41.0	37.0	1
Integrations	8%	49.0	46.0	2
Design output	7%	79.0	76.0	2
Speed	7%	36.1	31.0	2
Value	5%	75.0	76.5	2
Code ownership	3%	45.0	33.0	1

The reader index is a weighted mean of reader submitted axis scores using the published index weights, renormalised over the axes readers have scored. It is never blended into the lab index. How this works.

Open rating mean

65.50

2 published open ratings, submitted without an account

Lab index

55.45

Measured, not voted

Gap to the measurement

10.05

Positive means open raters put it above the measurement

What agent performance looked like in practice

Across 45 recorded executions this product met the published pass criterion cleanly 23 times, partially 11 times and failed 11 times. The rows above carry the reviewer note for every non clean outcome, which is the only way to tell a product that fails loudly from one that fails quietly.