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Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means

Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B scores 68.6 on HellaSwag, placing it #552 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.

Score
68.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#552
of 600
Percentile
8th
within the index
Benchmark avg
81.4
all models
Leader
96.1
GPT-5.2 Max
Gap to leader
27.5
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Max 96.1
GPT-5.2 Turbo 95.5
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 95.2
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 95.2
Grok 4 Reasoning 95.2
GPT-5.2 Vision 94.6
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 94.6
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.4
o4 Pro 94.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
2 GPT-5.2 Turbo OpenAI 1000000 $20.73 87.4
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
5 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
6 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
7 GPT-5.2 Vision OpenAI 1000000 $19.03 87.4
8 Gemini 3 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 400000 $19.62 86.4
9 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
10 o4 Pro OpenAI 1000000 $19.37 87.3

What this score means

On HellaSwag, Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B sits at #552 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 27.5 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B below the midpoint.

Cerebras models average 79.4 on this benchmark. Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B is 10.8 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Cerebras model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 70.2. Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B is 1.6 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 68.6 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 $0.48 per million input tokens, Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HellaSwag. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Gemma 3 1.5B Google DeepMind 32768 $0.40 48.9
Codestral 1.5B Mistral AI 8192 $0.52 49.9
Llama 3.3 1.5B Meta AI 4096 $0.61 52.2
Nemotron Nano 8B NVIDIA 8192 $0.46 48.1
Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B Cerebras 4096 $0.48 50.2
MiniMax-Text 1.5B MiniMax 32768 $0.58 51.5
Mistral Small 3 1.5B Mistral AI 32768 $0.42 49.2

Other benchmarks for Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 57.5 554 8th
GPQA Diamond 46.0 558 7th
SWE-bench Verified 36.6 544 9th
HumanEval 52.4 557 7th
MATH-500 48.7 568 5th
AIME 2025 38.1 549 9th
LiveCodeBench 39.6 540 10th
IFEval 61.5 560 7th
TruthfulQA 55.6 571 5th
MMMU 48.0 564 6th
Arena Elo 1198.1 557 7th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B get on HellaSwag?

Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B scores 68.6 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B rank on HellaSwag?

It ranks #552 of 600 models, in the 8th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.

Is Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B good at HellaSwag?

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 HellaSwag score calculated?

HellaSwag is a commonsense 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 Cerebras 1.5B cost?

Llama 3.1 Cerebras 1.5B costs $0.48 per million input tokens and $2.46 per million output tokens.

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