BIRD-INTERACT

Hi! BIRD-INTERACT

We feel grateful to see BIRD-SQL 2023 can bring insights and contributions to Text-to-SQL community in LLM era with supervision of DB & DM experts. We also sincerely thank all feedbacks from the community! Our work has been featured by DeepMind and OpenAI

This year, along with collaboration with Google Cloud, we are launching BIRD-SQL 2025, which will cover a wide range of professional DBs and their knowledge in the wild applications.

BIRD-INTERACT, an interactive text-to-SQL benchmark, re-imagines Text-to-SQL evaluation via lens of dynamic interactions. The environment blends a hierarchical knowledge base, database documentation and a function-driven user simulator to recreate authentic enterprise environments across full CRUD operations. It offers two rigorous test modes: (1) passive Conversational Interaction and (2) active Agentic Interaction, spanning 600 annotated tasks including Business Intelligence (BI), CRUD operations and etc., each guarded by executable test cases. Typical evaluations trigger 4,374-12,214 interaction turns between model and user simulator, while state-of-the-art reasoning models currently solve only ≈24% and ≈18% of tasks in Lite version; and ≈16% of tasks in Full version, underscoring the benchmark's challenge. Together, these features position Bird-Interact as a decisive yardstick for advancing interactive, production-ready database assistants. The two test modes supported by Bird-Interact covering most interactions in real-world applications:

• c-Interact: Conversational Interaction which is a passive mode and the workflow is fixed.
• a-Interact: Agentic Interaction which is an embodied active mode where the workflow is dynamic and led by models.

There are three versions of Bird-Interact dataset:

• mini-interact: an SQLite-based interactive benchmark containing 300 tasks with a self-contained environment that requires no Docker setup. This lightweight version enables fast development and testing of interactive intelligence for agentic data exploration with users.
• bird-interact-lite-exp: A lite version containing 300 tasks specifically for PostgreSQL. This is a good starting point for quick experimentation.
• bird-interact-full: The full version of Bird-Interact, comprising 600 tasks specifically for PostgreSQL.

News

LiveSQLBench Support

BIRD-Interact is built on LiveSQLBench, so all databases and tasks are live and continuously updated. LiveSQLBench (BIRD-SQL Pro v0.5) is a contamination-free, evolving benchmark for evaluating LLMs on real-world text-to-SQL tasks.

GT SQLs & Test Cases

To mititgate data leakage, please free to email bird.bench25@gmail.com for solution SQLs and test cases. The delivery is quite fast.

c-Interact Example

a-Interact Example

Submission

BIRD 2025 will accept a more flexible submission pipelines, please contact bird.bench25@gmail.com with the tag [bird-interact] in title, if you have any questions.

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Citation

@misc{birdinteract2025,
  author       = {BIRD Team},
  title        = {BIRD-Interact: Re-imagine Text-to-SQL Evaluation via Lens of Dynamic Interactions},
  year         = {2025},
  howpublished = {https://github.com/bird-bench/BIRD-Interact},
  note         = {Accessed: 2025-06-01}
}
              

@article{li2024can,
  title={Can llm already serve as a database interface? a big bench for large-scale database grounded text-to-sqls},
  author={Li, Jinyang and Hui, Binyuan and Qu, Ge and Yang, Jiaxi and Li, Binhua and Li, Bowen and Wang, Bailin and Qin, Bowen and Geng, Ruiying and Huo, Nan and others},
  journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume={36},
  year={2024}
}