# Designesy — /benchmarks Canonical page: https://www.designesy.org/benchmarks --- ## Benchmarks Three tools, three questions. They do not compete — they answer different questions about design quality. Hallmark prevents slop at generation time. Slop-eval scores slop after the fact. Designesy verifies contract conformance. This page maps what each catches that the others do not. ## The three tools ## They do not compete A complete design quality pipeline uses all three: hallmark to generate, slop-eval to catch slop, designesy to verify the contract. They occupy different positions on the design-verification spectrum — not the same position. Generation → hallmark (prevent slop at emit time, 57 gates) Evaluation → slop-eval (score existing designs, 108 tells + 2 positive axes) Verification → designesy (verify contract conformance, 42 checks + MCP delivery) ## Shared checks Where the three tools overlap. The intersection is narrow — most checks are unique to each tool. ## What Designesy catches that they do not 20 checks with no hallmark or slop-eval equivalent. These are the uncontested layers — contract conformance, Unicode security, Core Web Vitals, forced-colors, AI disclosure, and the Cadence typography suite. ## What they catch that Designesy does not Designesy gaps. These are the AI-slop aesthetic detection, structural-variety, signature, and cohesion checks. Designesy does not ask “does this look AI-generated” — it verifies contract conformance. ## The moat The layers no competitor approaches. These are not features — they are the category-of-one positioning. ## Self-score on designesy.org hallmark and slop-eval are agent skills, not URL-based APIs. They cannot score a URL without an LLM agent loading the skill and evaluating. Designesy is the only one with a programmatic URL-based scoring endpoint — a structural advantage for CI/CD integration, leaderboards, and automated pipelines. ## The wider landscape The three tools above are the closest comparators. The field is growing — these are newer entrants worth tracking. 81 design-related MCP servers are now indexed at mcpservers.org (2026-08-01). The category is expanding from skills into agent-invocable tooling — the space designesy pioneered with its 17-tool MCP server and URL-based scoring API. ## Provenance Live research via AnySearch MCP (2026-08-01). Designesy live score verified via POST to https://www.designesy.org/api/score (93% A,42 checks). hallmark taxonomy from Nutlope/hallmark/skills/hallmark/references/slop-test.md. slop-eval taxonomy from fabricioctelles/skills/skills/slop-eval/references/tells.md.