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GPT-NeoX 8B on GPQA Diamond: score, rank and what it means

GPT-NeoX 8B scores 41.7 on GPQA Diamond, placing it #579 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Score
41.7
0–100 scale
Rank
#579
of 600
Percentile
4th
within the index
Benchmark avg
65.6
all models
Leader
87.0
GPT-5.2 Reasoning
Gap to leader
45.3
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on GPQA Diamond, with GPT-NeoX 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Reasoning 87.0
GPT-5.1 Max 86.4
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 86.0
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 85.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.2
GPT-5.2 84.9
o4 Turbo 84.8
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 84.6
Grok 4 Turbo 84.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 84.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
2 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
4 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
5 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
6 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
7 o4 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.34 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
9 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
10 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2

What this score means

On GPQA Diamond, GPT-NeoX 8B sits at #579 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Reasoning, scores 87.0, so the gap to the top is 45.3 points. The median model in this index scores 68.8, which puts GPT-NeoX 8B below the midpoint.

EleutherAI models average 47.3 on this benchmark. GPT-NeoX 8B is 5.6 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average EleutherAI model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 49.3. GPT-NeoX 8B is 7.6 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 41.7 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 $0.25 per million input tokens, GPT-NeoX 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on GPQA Diamond. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Molmo 7B Allen Institute for AI 32768 $0.42 49.3
Yi-Large 1.5B 01.AI 8192 $0.42 46.8
Llama 3 Anyscale 1.5B Anyscale 16384 $0.43 48.9
SmolLM3 7B Hugging Face 16384 $0.19 44.3
GPT-NeoX 8B EleutherAI 16384 $0.25 43.7
Nemotron Nano 7B NVIDIA 8192 $0.35 47.5
Nemotron Nano 8B NVIDIA 8192 $0.46 48.1

Other benchmarks for GPT-NeoX 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 53.5 578 4th
SWE-bench Verified 28.4 583 3th
HumanEval 44.9 590 2th
MATH-500 41.9 590 2th
AIME 2025 25.2 594 1th
LiveCodeBench 28.9 585 3th
IFEval 56.4 588 2th
TruthfulQA 53.3 583 3th
HellaSwag 62.9 592 1th
MMMU 43.2 585 3th
Arena Elo 1154.9 583 3th

FAQ

What score does GPT-NeoX 8B get on GPQA Diamond?

GPT-NeoX 8B scores 41.7 on GPQA Diamond in this index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the top score is 87.0.

How does GPT-NeoX 8B rank on GPQA Diamond?

It ranks #579 of 600 models, in the 4th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.

Is GPT-NeoX 8B good at GPQA Diamond?

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 GPQA Diamond score calculated?

GPQA Diamond is a reasoning 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-NeoX 8B cost?

GPT-NeoX 8B costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.04 per million output tokens.

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