Spider 2.0: Evaluating Language Models on Real-World Enterprise Text-to-SQL Workflows
Website • Paper • Data Update Log • Submission Guidance
📰 News
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2026-08-12: We sincerely apologize for the ongoing disruption to Spider 2.0-Snow access. The Snowflake evaluation account is currently experiencing an unexpected suspension issue, and we are working urgently with the Snowflake team to resolve it as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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2025-11-06: We apologize for the recent Snowflake login and credential issues caused by Snowflake’s password & MFA policy upgrade. Both Web UI login and Python credential access behaviors have changed.
Please carefully review the updated Snowflake guideline before continuing: https://github.com/xlang-ai/Spider2/blob/main/assets/Snowflake_Guideline.md
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2025-10-29: Major update!
- We fixed the evaluation-suite issue, so scores are now more accurate and stable. We also refreshed the affected methods on the leaderboard.
- If you are willing to cover the Snowflake hosting cost (spider2-snow is free by default, but queries are queued), we can share the Spider2 Snowflake data directly to your own Snowflake project. See Spider2_Data_Host.md for details.
- If you run into MF2A connection errors—meaning your credentials cannot access the Snowflake warehouse—check. Please see Snowflake Guideline.
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2025-07-13: We update
spider2-snow.jsonlto resolve ambiguities, with the previous version renamed tospider2-snow-0713.jsonlfor reference. -
2025-06-10: We implemented a tool-call-based Spider-Agent for Spider 2.0-Snow that requires no Docker and significantly improves runtime performance.
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2025-05-22: We have created a new task setting,
Spider2-DBT, and removed the original Spider2 setting. spider2-dbt consists of only 68 tasks, enabling quick and smooth benchmarking with spider-agent-dbt. It is a comprehensive, repository-level text-to-SQL task. -
2025-04-20: We provide the ground-truth tables for spider2-lite and spider2-snow to help quick benchmarking and analysis. However, when using this setting, you must indicate that you are using
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2025-01-10: Please refer to the data update log to track changes in the evaluation examples. The leaderboard results will also change dynamically accordingly.
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2024-12-24: Considering the many evaluation requirements, we have decided to release all examples and gold answers for self-evaluation. However, only a small amount of gold SQL is available. The leaderboard is still active. To have your method officially validated and upload your scores to the leaderboard, please follow the submission guidance.
👋 Overview
Setting
Task Type
#Examples
Databases
Cost
Spider 2.0-Snow
Text-to-SQL task
547
Snowflake(547)
NO COST!😊
Spider 2.0-Lite
Text-to-SQL task
547
BigQuery(214), Snowflake(198), SQLite(135)
Some cost incurred
Spider 2.0-DBT
Code agent task
68
DuckDB (DBT)(68)
NO COST!😊
Data
The questions/instructions are in spider2-lite.jsonl and spider2-snow.jsonl.
We also release some gold SQLs to help users design prompts and methods, note that we do not recommend using the Spider 2.0 Gold SQL we released for fine-tuning.
🚀 Quickstart (Spider2-lite/snow)
Sign Up for Your Own BigQuery and Snowflake Accounts
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To sign up for a BigQuery account, please follow this guideline, get your own credentials.
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Follow this guideline and fill out this Spider2 Snowflake Access, and we will send you an account sign-up email, which will allow you to access the Snowflake database.
Important Notes:
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If you want to access the FULL dataset of Spider 2.0-Lite, you must complete Step1 and Step2.
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If you only want access to the FULL dataset of Spider 2.0-Snow, you only need to complete Step2.
Spider 2.0-Snow (Tool-call Format, UPDATE 2025-06-10)
A Docker-free and ultra-fast Spider-Agent implementation for rapid benchmarking of any model.
Spider 2.0-Snow and Spider 2.0-Lite (Based on Docker)
We highly recommend that you directly use Spider2-snow and Spider2-lite for benchmarking and research. First, run the Spider-Agent Framework!!
For more details, please refer to the following links:
🚀 Quickstart (Spider2-dbt)
For more details, please refer to the following links:
- spider2-dbt (The Data)
- spider-agent-dbt (The Method)
📋 Leaderboard Submission
We only release the gold answer of about partial examples of Spider 2.0-Lite, Spider 2.0-Snow and Spider 2.0-DBT. You must follow this submission guidance to upload your score to leaderboard.
🙇♂️ Acknowledgement
We thank Snowflake for their generous support in hosting the Spider 2.0 Challenge. We also thank Minghang Deng, Tianbao Xie, Yiheng Xu, Fan Zhou, Yuting Lan, Per Jacobsson, Yiming Huang, Canwen Xu, Zhewei Yao, and Binyuan Hui for their helpful feedback on this work. The website and submission guidelines are greatly inspired by BIRD-SQL, and we thank them for their contributions.
✍️ Citation
If you find our work helpful, please cite as
@misc{lei2024spider2,
title={Spider 2.0: Evaluating Language Models on Real-World Enterprise Text-to-SQL Workflows},
author={Fangyu Lei and Jixuan Chen and Yuxiao Ye and Ruisheng Cao and Dongchan Shin and Hongjin Su and Zhaoqing Suo and Hongcheng Gao and Wenjing Hu and Pengcheng Yin and Victor Zhong and Caiming Xiong and Ruoxi Sun and Qian Liu and Sida Wang and Tao Yu},
year={2024},
eprint={2411.07763},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07763},
}