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Arctic 8B on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

Arctic 8B scores 39.7 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #539 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Score
39.7
0–100 scale
Rank
#539
of 600
Percentile
10th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
45.4
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Arctic 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
2 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
6 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
7 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
8 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On LiveCodeBench, Arctic 8B sits at #539 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 45.4 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Arctic 8B below the midpoint.

Snowflake models average 50.6 on this benchmark. Arctic 8B is 10.9 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Snowflake model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 41.2. Arctic 8B is 1.5 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 39.7 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 $0.65 per million input tokens, Arctic 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Embed 4 Nano Cohere 8192 $1.48 49.7
OLMo 2 7B Allen Institute for AI 16384 $0.56 51.7
MiniMax-Text 1.5B MiniMax 32768 $0.58 51.5
Llama 3.3 1.5B Meta AI 4096 $0.61 52.2
Arctic 8B Snowflake 8192 $0.65 52.4
Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B Cerebras 4096 $0.48 50.2
Arctic 7B Snowflake 8192 $0.49 50.3

Other benchmarks for Arctic 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 58.3 548 9th
GPQA Diamond 47.9 539 10th
SWE-bench Verified 36.8 543 10th
HumanEval 55.8 537 11th
MATH-500 52.8 535 11th
AIME 2025 39.7 542 10th
IFEval 64.4 537 11th
TruthfulQA 59.0 541 10th
HellaSwag 69.4 542 10th
MMMU 52.1 526 12th
Arena Elo 1224.0 532 11th

FAQ

What score does Arctic 8B get on LiveCodeBench?

Arctic 8B scores 39.7 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Arctic 8B rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #539 of 600 models, in the 10th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Arctic 8B good at LiveCodeBench?

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 LiveCodeBench score calculated?

LiveCodeBench is a coding 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 8B cost?

Arctic 8B costs $0.65 per million input tokens and $2.31 per million output tokens.

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