DeepSeek-R1 8B on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
DeepSeek-R1 8B scores 77.9 on HellaSwag, placing it #403 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 DeepSeek-R1 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, DeepSeek-R1 8B sits at #403 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 18.2 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts DeepSeek-R1 8B below the midpoint.
DeepSeek models average 82.7 on this benchmark. DeepSeek-R1 8B is 4.8 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average DeepSeek model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 70.2. DeepSeek-R1 8B is 7.7 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 77.9 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 $1.87 per million input tokens, DeepSeek-R1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doubao 1.5 Pro Nano | ByteDance | 16384 | $5.78 | 66.6 |
| Kimi K2 7B | Moonshot AI | 16384 | $1.72 | 62.7 |
| Molmo Chat | Allen Institute for AI | 32768 | $2.40 | 66.7 |
| Nemotron Nano | NVIDIA | 8192 | $2.24 | 66.6 |
| DeepSeek-R1 8B | DeepSeek | 16384 | $1.87 | 64.3 |
| Reka Flash Mini | Reka AI | 16384 | $5.77 | 65.5 |
| SmolLM3 | Hugging Face | 8192 | $1.71 | 63.1 |
Other benchmarks for DeepSeek-R1 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 67.2 | 429 | 29th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 58.0 | 426 | 29th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 53.3 | 394 | 34th | |
| HumanEval | 69.8 | 397 | 34th | |
| MATH-500 | 67.0 | 407 | 32th | |
| AIME 2025 | 58.4 | 397 | 34th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 52.4 | 421 | 30th | |
| IFEval | 73.1 | 414 | 31th | |
| TruthfulQA | 67.6 | 419 | 30th | |
| MMMU | 62.7 | 402 | 33th | |
| Arena Elo | 1313.8 | 401 | 33th |
FAQ
What score does DeepSeek-R1 8B get on HellaSwag?
DeepSeek-R1 8B scores 77.9 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does DeepSeek-R1 8B rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #403 of 600 models, in the 33rd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is DeepSeek-R1 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 DeepSeek-R1 8B cost?
DeepSeek-R1 8B costs $1.87 per million input tokens and $8.53 per million output tokens.