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GPT-5.1 Nano on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

GPT-5.1 Nano scores 63.9 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #323 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
63.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#323
of 600
Percentile
46th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
21.2
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with GPT-5.1 Nano 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, GPT-5.1 Nano sits at #323 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 21.2 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts GPT-5.1 Nano below the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 77.2 on this benchmark. GPT-5.1 Nano is 13.3 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average OpenAI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 70.3. GPT-5.1 Nano is 6.4 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 63.9 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 $9.56 per million input tokens, GPT-5.1 Nano is above 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
QwQ Base Alibaba Cloud 65536 $3.68 74.1
Firesearch Pro Fireworks AI 32768 $7.67 70.4
Firesearch Reasoning Fireworks AI 32768 $7.74 69.0
Fusion Pro OpenRouter 65536 $8.69 72.2
GPT-5.1 Nano OpenAI 32768 $9.56 74.1
OLMo 2 Instruct Allen Institute for AI 32768 $3.03 71.7
Seed-OSS Chat ByteDance 65536 $3.49 74.4

Other benchmarks for GPT-5.1 Nano

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 77.0 278 54th
GPQA Diamond 71.2 235 61th
SWE-bench Verified 63.1 251 58th
HumanEval 76.1 328 45th
MATH-500 79.5 220 63th
AIME 2025 66.1 328 45th
IFEval 82.6 257 57th
TruthfulQA 78.1 253 58th
HellaSwag 85.5 227 62th
MMMU 72.0 243 60th
Arena Elo 1378.2 280 53th

FAQ

What score does GPT-5.1 Nano get on LiveCodeBench?

GPT-5.1 Nano scores 63.9 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does GPT-5.1 Nano rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #323 of 600 models, in the 46th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is GPT-5.1 Nano 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 GPT-5.1 Nano cost?

GPT-5.1 Nano costs $9.56 per million input tokens and $43.06 per million output tokens.

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