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Arctic 7B on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means

Arctic 7B scores 1201.2 on Arena Elo, placing it #552 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Score
1201.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#552
of 600
Percentile
8th
within the index
Benchmark avg
1349.9
all models
Leader
1501.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max
Gap to leader
300.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with Arctic 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Max 1501.9
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 1500.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 1500.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 1497.5
GPT-5.2 Max 1495.3
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 1494.9
Grok 4 Max 1491.4
Claude Opus 4.5 1491.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 1490.0
Grok 4 Reasoning 1487.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
2 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
3 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
6 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
7 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
10 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8

What this score means

On Arena Elo, Arctic 7B sits at #552 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 300.7 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts Arctic 7B below the midpoint.

Snowflake models average 1276.7 on this benchmark. Arctic 7B is 75.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Snowflake model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 1224.7. Arctic 7B is 23.5 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 1201.2 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $0.49 per million input tokens, Arctic 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
MiniMax-Text 1.5B MiniMax 32768 $0.58 51.5
Llama 3.3 1.5B Meta AI 4096 $0.61 52.2
Nemotron 4 1.5B NVIDIA 32768 $0.49 50.8
Seed-OSS 1.5B ByteDance 4096 $0.45 49.8
Arctic 7B Snowflake 8192 $0.49 50.3
Phi-3.5 8B Microsoft 16384 $0.59 51.2
Llama 3 Novita 1.5B Novita AI 4096 $0.41 49.1

Other benchmarks for Arctic 7B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 57.7 553 8th
GPQA Diamond 45.1 567 6th
SWE-bench Verified 34.7 558 7th
HumanEval 51.2 563 6th
MATH-500 51.8 542 10th
AIME 2025 37.7 554 8th
LiveCodeBench 39.2 541 10th
IFEval 63.1 545 9th
TruthfulQA 58.0 547 9th
HellaSwag 67.9 558 7th
MMMU 47.4 569 5th

FAQ

What score does Arctic 7B get on Arena Elo?

Arctic 7B scores 1201.2 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.

How does Arctic 7B rank on Arena Elo?

It ranks #552 of 600 models, in the 8th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Is Arctic 7B good at Arena Elo?

It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the Arena Elo score calculated?

Arena Elo is a preference benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Arctic 7B cost?

Arctic 7B costs $0.49 per million input tokens and $2.38 per million output tokens.

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