The programs that produce SAT benchmarks, each as a Docker image: the families the competitions used, and others that live outside them, in papers and in solver tuning.

A pilot, and a collective one: please check, correct and contribute. Everything here is generated from the data of the sat-heritage/benchs-generators repository. A generator whose licence is unknown has its recipe published but no image, and a family with no generator is one we could not find or could not run: corrections, missing generators and licence clarifications are welcome as pull requests or issues. Adding your own generator takes four files, or just an issue with a link to your code: see adding a generator. The companion project for solvers is SAT Heritage.
Overview · Families

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Solver rankings on this family, and the generator that reproduces it.

What to run on a problem of this kind

The solvers that did best on this family in the SAT Competition 2026, as images of the companion project. They are a better bet on such a problem than the overall winner of that year, which this family often disagrees with.

SolverSolvedCommand
anders_satsuma-iter-ae-kissat-mab10 / 16
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/data" satex/satsuma-iter-ae-kissat-mab:2026 your-instance.cnf
yalun_kissat-eda-28 / 16
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/data" satex/kissat-eda-2:2026 your-instance.cnf
yalun_kissat-eda-38 / 16
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/data" satex/kissat-eda-3:2026 your-instance.cnf

No generator here yet

We have not packaged a generator for this family. If you wrote it, or know where its code lives, a issue is very welcome.

SAT Competition 2026 · 16 instances

Ranked by PAR-2 on this family alone. Winner of the whole main track that year: anders_satsuma-iter-kissat.

#SolverSolvedPAR-2 per instance
1anders_satsuma-iter-ae-kissat-mab 10 / 164625 s
2yalun_kissat-eda-2 8 / 165076 s
3yalun_kissat-eda-3 8 / 165090 s
4yalun_kissat-eda-4 8 / 165284 s
5guo_kissat-ae-eg 8 / 165436 s
6liang_kissat-mab-da 7 / 165815 s
7biere_cadical3 7 / 165823 s
8guo_kissat-ae-hucb 7 / 165839 s
9biere_kissat-biere 7 / 165907 s
10zheng_kissat-mab-hypre-v2 7 / 165957 s
11zheng_kissat-mab-hypre 7 / 165963 s
12zhenwei_mergesat 7 / 166077 s