Codestral 8B on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Codestral 8B scores 72.0 on HellaSwag, placing it #495 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 Codestral 8B 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, Codestral 8B sits at #495 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 24.1 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Codestral 8B below the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 79.8 on this benchmark. Codestral 8B is 7.8 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Mistral AI model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 70.2. Codestral 8B is 1.8 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 72.0 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 $1.18 per million input tokens, Codestral 8B 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 3 7B | Google DeepMind | 32768 | $0.90 | 55.9 |
| Llama 3 Hyperbolic 7B | Hyperbolic | 4096 | $0.94 | 55.6 |
| Llama 3.3 7B | Meta AI | 8192 | $1.18 | 57.8 |
| Mistral Small 3 7B | Mistral AI | 4096 | $0.89 | 55.2 |
| Codestral 8B | Mistral AI | 4096 | $1.18 | 59.0 |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 1.5B | DeepSeek | 4096 | $1.02 | 56.9 |
| Llama 3 DeepInfra 8B | DeepInfra | 8192 | $1.05 | 57.4 |
Other benchmarks for Codestral 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 65.7 | 441 | 27th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 53.3 | 488 | 19th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 46.1 | 451 | 25th | |
| HumanEval | 62.8 | 459 | 24th | |
| MATH-500 | 57.9 | 492 | 18th | |
| AIME 2025 | 49.9 | 461 | 23th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 49.5 | 453 | 25th | |
| IFEval | 70.4 | 451 | 25th | |
| TruthfulQA | 65.4 | 455 | 24th | |
| MMMU | 55.6 | 491 | 18th | |
| Arena Elo | 1253.3 | 486 | 19th |
FAQ
What score does Codestral 8B get on HellaSwag?
Codestral 8B scores 72.0 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Codestral 8B rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #495 of 600 models, in the 18th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Codestral 8B 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 Codestral 8B cost?
Codestral 8B costs $1.18 per million input tokens and $5.35 per million output tokens.