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GPT-NeoX 8B on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means

GPT-NeoX 8B scores 28.4 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #583 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
28.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#583
of 600
Percentile
3th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
53.3
points

Score distribution

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

GPT-5.2 Pro 81.7
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 81.1
GPT-5.2 Max 80.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 80.2
GPT-5.2 80.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 80.1
o4 Max 79.8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 79.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 79.5
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 79.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
3 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2

What this score means

On SWE-bench Verified, GPT-NeoX 8B sits at #583 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 53.3 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts GPT-NeoX 8B below the midpoint.

EleutherAI models average 37.2 on this benchmark. GPT-NeoX 8B is 8.8 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average EleutherAI model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 39.0. GPT-NeoX 8B is 10.6 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 28.4 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 SWE-bench Verified. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B Lambda 16384 $0.46 48.4
Mixtral 1.5B Mistral AI 16384 $0.36 47.7
Mixtral Turbo 1.5B Together AI 4096 $0.31 47.6
Mixtral Groq 1.5B Groq 4096 $0.34 46.1
GPT-NeoX 8B EleutherAI 16384 $0.25 43.7
Molmo 1.5B Allen Institute for AI 8192 $0.21 42.8
Phi-3.5 1.5B Microsoft 32768 $0.25 44.5

Other benchmarks for GPT-NeoX 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 53.5 578 4th
GPQA Diamond 41.7 579 4th
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 SWE-bench Verified?

GPT-NeoX 8B scores 28.4 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does GPT-NeoX 8B rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #583 of 600 models, in the 3rd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is GPT-NeoX 8B good at SWE-bench Verified?

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 SWE-bench Verified score calculated?

SWE-bench Verified 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-NeoX 8B cost?

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

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