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Embed 4 Max on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Embed 4 Max scores 75.3 on IFEval, placing it #395 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
75.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#395
of 600
Percentile
34th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
20.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Embed 4 Max highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Embed 4 Max sits at #395 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 20.8 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Embed 4 Max below the midpoint.

Cohere models average 77.5 on this benchmark. Embed 4 Max is 2.2 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Cohere model.

Among mid-range models, the average is 76.5. Embed 4 Max is 1.2 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 75.3 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 $5.68 per million input tokens, Embed 4 Max is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Nova Lite Mini Amazon 16384 $5.43 65.0
Nemotron Nano Base NVIDIA 8192 $1.85 65.0
Molmo Base Allen Institute for AI 4096 $2.02 65.0
Kimi K2 8B Moonshot AI 8192 $1.86 64.7
Embed 4 Max Cohere 8192 $5.68 66.1
Nemotron Nano Instruct NVIDIA 32768 $2.33 67.4
DeepSeek-V3.2 7B DeepSeek 4096 $1.75 63.2

Other benchmarks for Embed 4 Max

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 72.5 375 38th
GPQA Diamond 59.0 415 31th
SWE-bench Verified 55.1 383 36th
HumanEval 69.6 401 33th
MATH-500 64.8 420 30th
AIME 2025 61.5 377 37th
LiveCodeBench 58.2 386 36th
TruthfulQA 68.3 411 32th
HellaSwag 76.9 417 31th
MMMU 66.1 370 38th
Arena Elo 1326.3 392 35th

FAQ

What score does Embed 4 Max get on IFEval?

Embed 4 Max scores 75.3 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Embed 4 Max rank on IFEval?

It ranks #395 of 600 models, in the 34th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Embed 4 Max good at IFEval?

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 IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following 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 Embed 4 Max cost?

Embed 4 Max costs $5.68 per million input tokens and $21.60 per million output tokens.

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