Preference · EleutherAI

GPT-NeoX on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means

GPT-NeoX scores 1277.8 on Arena Elo, placing it #448 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Score
1277.8
0–100 scale
Rank
#448
of 600
Percentile
25th
within the index
Benchmark avg
1349.9
all models
Leader
1501.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max
Gap to leader
224.1
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with GPT-NeoX highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Max 1501.9
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 1500.4
GPT-5.2 Turbo 1500.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 1497.5
GPT-5.2 Max 1495.3
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 1494.9
Grok 4 Max 1491.4
Claude Opus 4.5 1491.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 1490.0
Grok 4 Reasoning 1487.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
2 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
3 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
5 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
6 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
7 Grok 4 Max xAI 2000000 $19.70 86.6
8 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
9 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
10 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8

What this score means

On Arena Elo, GPT-NeoX sits at #448 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 224.1 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts GPT-NeoX below the midpoint.

EleutherAI models average 1208.8 on this benchmark. GPT-NeoX is 69.0 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average EleutherAI model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 1338.0. GPT-NeoX is 60.2 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 1277.8 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 $1.57 per million input tokens, GPT-NeoX is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
MiniMax-M2 7B MiniMax 8192 $1.44 60.8
Firesearch Mini Fireworks AI 32768 $3.94 61.5
SmolLM3 Base Hugging Face 16384 $1.38 60.4
Hunyuan-Large 8B Tencent 4096 $1.29 58.7
GPT-NeoX EleutherAI 16384 $1.57 61.7
Llama 3.3 Groq 8B Groq 16384 $1.17 59.5
Llama 3.1 8B Meta AI 8192 $1.15 58.7

Other benchmarks for GPT-NeoX

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 67.6 422 30th
GPQA Diamond 54.6 468 22th
SWE-bench Verified 46.4 449 25th
HumanEval 64.9 442 26th
MATH-500 64.0 425 29th
AIME 2025 55.8 411 32th
LiveCodeBench 52.7 418 30th
IFEval 69.8 464 23th
TruthfulQA 67.6 422 30th
HellaSwag 75.0 442 26th
MMMU 60.5 424 29th

FAQ

What score does GPT-NeoX get on Arena Elo?

GPT-NeoX scores 1277.8 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.

How does GPT-NeoX rank on Arena Elo?

It ranks #448 of 600 models, in the 25th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Is GPT-NeoX good at Arena Elo?

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 Arena Elo score calculated?

Arena Elo is a preference 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 cost?

GPT-NeoX costs $1.57 per million input tokens and $7.57 per million output tokens.

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