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Llama 3.1 1.5B on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means

Llama 3.1 1.5B scores 38.0 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #538 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
38.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#538
of 600
Percentile
10th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
43.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with Llama 3.1 1.5B 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, Llama 3.1 1.5B sits at #538 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 43.7 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts Llama 3.1 1.5B below the midpoint.

Meta AI models average 56.9 on this benchmark. Llama 3.1 1.5B is 18.9 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Meta AI model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 39.0. Llama 3.1 1.5B is 1.0 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 38.0 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 $0.53 per million input tokens, Llama 3.1 1.5B 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
Mixtral Groq 8B Groq 32768 $0.77 54.8
GLM-4.5 1.5B Zhipu AI 16384 $0.65 53.3
Llama 4 Scout 1.5B Meta AI 8192 $0.66 53.0
Mistral Large 3 1.5B Mistral AI 32768 $0.82 55.4
Llama 3.1 1.5B Meta AI 4096 $0.53 50.7
Llama 3.3 1.5B Meta AI 4096 $0.61 52.2
DBRX 8B Databricks 4096 $0.82 54.1

Other benchmarks for Llama 3.1 1.5B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 58.9 538 10th
GPQA Diamond 46.7 551 8th
HumanEval 52.1 559 7th
MATH-500 52.0 540 10th
AIME 2025 35.6 563 6th
LiveCodeBench 35.8 564 6th
IFEval 61.6 558 7th
TruthfulQA 59.5 536 11th
HellaSwag 66.7 568 5th
MMMU 50.9 544 9th
Arena Elo 1187.9 567 6th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3.1 1.5B get on SWE-bench Verified?

Llama 3.1 1.5B scores 38.0 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does Llama 3.1 1.5B rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #538 of 600 models, in the 10th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is Llama 3.1 1.5B 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 Llama 3.1 1.5B cost?

Llama 3.1 1.5B costs $0.53 per million input tokens and $2.14 per million output tokens.

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