Andon Labs B
RL environment company · Computer Use
- Domains
- Computer Use Long-Horizon
- On X
- @andonlabs ↗
- Funding
- Y Combinator W24 · rounds and investors
- Tier
- B why
- Snapshot
What Andon Labs does
Andon Labs builds long-horizon agent evals such as Vending-Bench and runs real AI-operated businesses as safety testbeds, and is opening Pion, a platform for agents that run businesses.
- Sells
- RL environments
- Leads with
- Enterprise work
- Based in
- San Francisco, USA
- Team
- 11-50
- Website
- andonlabs.com ↗
What Andon Labs sells
Read from Andon Labs's own website, checked October 11, 2026: the line that puts it in each category.
RL environments
“our evals Vending-Bench, Blueprint-Bench and Drone-Bench allow us to compare models directly in simulation.”
andonlabs.com ↗
Also
“We study and deploy frontier AI in the real world to ensure organizations run autonomously by AI are safe.”
andonlabs.com ↗
Domains Andon Labs covers
Enterprise work leads with
“Can AI agents run vending machine businesses?”
andonlabs.com ↗“Can AI models code autonomous drones?”
andonlabs.com ↗“Can AI models code autonomous drones?”
andonlabs.com ↗
Benchmarks Andon Labs built or runs
Blueprint-Bench 2, 2026-05 built it
“Blueprint-Bench 2 builds on our original paper with an agent-only evaluation, improved scoring, and a persistent notepad for cross-apartment learning.”
andonlabs.com/evals/blueprint-bench-2 ↗Drone-Bench, with Anthropic Project Pilot, 2026-07 built it
“As part of our continued effort to understand AI’s impact on the physical world, we release Drone-Bench”
andonlabs.com/docs/Drone_Bench.pdf ↗Vending-Bench 2 / Vending-Bench Arena built it
“We're releasing Vending-Bench 2, a benchmark for measuring AI model performance on running a business over long time horizons.”
andonlabs.com/evals/vending-bench-2 ↗
Andon Labs competitors and alternatives
The companies that sell the most of the same things in the same domains, and what they share with Andon Labs.
- Veris AI Also sells evals · also in enterprise work and coding
- Deeptune also in enterprise work and coding
- Metaphi also in enterprise work and coding
- Ooak Data Also sells evals · also in enterprise work
- Symbal Also sells evals and agent safety and verification · also in robotics, coding and enterprise work
Tier B
Growing: 11 to 50 people, or $3M+ raised.
How much stands behind a tier: usage, who backs it, a confirmed line from its own site or paper, and a clear read on X. High with three of the four, medium with two, low otherwise.
- team 11-50
- investors: Y Combinator
- went through Y Combinator Winter 2024
- in curated RL directories (2 pts)
On X · well regarded, moderate buzz, from 11 posts about Andon Labs in the last month
Vending-Bench is cited as inspiration for new agent benchmarks like OpenTTD, and its AI-run San Francisco shop with human employees draws curious attention.
How we got to tier B
- Adoption: team 11-50; investors: Y Combinator; went through Y Combinator Winter 2024. Tier B.
- On X: well regarded, moderate buzz. “Vending-Bench is cited as inspiration for new agent benchmarks like OpenTTD, and its AI-run San Francisco shop with human employees draws curious attention.” No move.
- In curated RL directories: 2 points, a floor of none.
- Confirmed: a line from its own site or paper places it.
A clear view on X moves a tier one step up or down; most entries don't move. How tiers work.
Andon Labs funding
- Accelerator
- Y Combinator W24
Backed byY Combinator Winter 2024
Accelerator
- Y Combinator Winter 2024
- Y Combinator's company directory lists Andon Labs with the website andonlabs.com, in its Winter 2024 batch
- Checkable on YC's page: ycombinator.com/companies/andon-labs
- 4 pages read also name Y Combinator
Every figure is quoted from its own site, its accelerator or a funding announcement; a round's amount and lead appear only when its quote states them. Startup databases are never used as evidence. Checked 2026-10-11. How funding is checked.
Where Andon Labs sits
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Latest from Andon Labs on X
@andonlabs ↗Next: browse all environments. Entry from the RL Research daily scrape of public sources, 2026-11-05 snapshot.