Arctic Chat on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Arctic Chat scores 79.7 on HellaSwag, placing it #383 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Arctic Chat highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 10 | o4 Pro | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.37 | 87.3 |
What this score means
On HellaSwag, Arctic Chat sits at #383 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 16.4 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Arctic Chat below the midpoint.
Snowflake models average 75.0 on this benchmark. Arctic Chat is 4.7 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Snowflake model.
Among open-weight models, the average is 80.2. Arctic Chat is 0.5 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 79.7 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 $2.70 per million input tokens, Arctic Chat is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HellaSwag. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arctic Base | Snowflake | 32768 | $2.27 | 67.5 |
| Firesearch Turbo | Fireworks AI | 16384 | $7.58 | 69.3 |
| Grok 3 Nano | xAI | 8192 | $7.12 | 67.8 |
| Nemotron Nano Chat | NVIDIA | 32768 | $2.21 | 66.2 |
| Arctic Chat | Snowflake | 16384 | $2.70 | 69.8 |
| Nemotron Nano Instruct | NVIDIA | 32768 | $2.33 | 67.4 |
| Sonar Pro Nano | Perplexity | 32768 | $5.50 | 66.1 |
Other benchmarks for Arctic Chat
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 73.6 | 361 | 40th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 65.6 | 349 | 42th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57.6 | 361 | 40th | |
| HumanEval | 75.0 | 344 | 43th | |
| MATH-500 | 71.4 | 374 | 38th | |
| AIME 2025 | 66.0 | 330 | 45th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 61.6 | 355 | 41th | |
| IFEval | 77.6 | 370 | 38th | |
| TruthfulQA | 73.9 | 355 | 41th | |
| MMMU | 66.1 | 369 | 39th | |
| Arena Elo | 1342.4 | 377 | 37th |
FAQ
What score does Arctic Chat get on HellaSwag?
Arctic Chat scores 79.7 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Arctic Chat rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #383 of 600 models, in the 36th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Arctic Chat good at HellaSwag?
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 HellaSwag score calculated?
HellaSwag is a commonsense 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 Chat cost?
Arctic Chat costs $2.70 per million input tokens and $11.83 per million output tokens.