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GPT-NeoX Instruct on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

GPT-NeoX Instruct scores 53.9 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #412 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
53.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#412
of 600
Percentile
31th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
31.2
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with GPT-NeoX Instruct 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-NeoX Instruct sits at #412 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 31.2 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts GPT-NeoX Instruct below the midpoint.

EleutherAI models average 38.6 on this benchmark. GPT-NeoX Instruct is 15.3 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average EleutherAI model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 59.1. GPT-NeoX Instruct is 5.2 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 53.9 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 $1.52 per million input tokens, GPT-NeoX Instruct is below 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
SmolLM3 Chat Hugging Face 16384 $1.61 62.1
Command A Nano Cohere 8192 $5.90 66.3
Nemotron Nano Chat NVIDIA 32768 $2.21 66.2
Embed 4 Cohere 32768 $4.79 63.8
GPT-NeoX Instruct EleutherAI 16384 $1.52 62.6
Nemotron Nano Base NVIDIA 8192 $1.85 65.0
GLM-4.5 8B Zhipu AI 32768 $1.46 61.3

Other benchmarks for GPT-NeoX Instruct

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 67.9 420 30th
GPQA Diamond 58.5 420 30th
SWE-bench Verified 50.5 418 30th
HumanEval 63.7 452 25th
MATH-500 64.9 419 30th
AIME 2025 54.1 423 30th
IFEval 71.2 439 27th
TruthfulQA 66.0 444 26th
HellaSwag 75.4 435 28th
MMMU 62.5 404 33th
Arena Elo 1292.6 429 29th

FAQ

What score does GPT-NeoX Instruct get on LiveCodeBench?

GPT-NeoX Instruct scores 53.9 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does GPT-NeoX Instruct rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #412 of 600 models, in the 31st percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is GPT-NeoX Instruct 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-NeoX Instruct cost?

GPT-NeoX Instruct costs $1.52 per million input tokens and $5.60 per million output tokens.

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