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Llama 3.3 8B on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Llama 3.3 8B scores 70.2 on IFEval, placing it #457 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
70.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#457
of 600
Percentile
24th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
25.9
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Llama 3.3 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Llama 3.3 8B sits at #457 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 25.9 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Llama 3.3 8B below the midpoint.

Meta AI models average 77.8 on this benchmark. Llama 3.3 8B is 7.6 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 64.9. Llama 3.3 8B is 5.3 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 70.2 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 $1.26 per million input tokens, Llama 3.3 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 3.3 Groq 8B Groq 16384 $1.17 59.5
Pythia EleutherAI 32768 $1.29 59.8
Zephyr Hugging Face 8192 $1.61 62.8
Zephyr Base Hugging Face 4096 $1.26 59.5
Llama 3.3 8B Meta AI 8192 $1.26 60.1
Command R+ 8B Cohere 8192 $1.21 57.7
DeepSeek-Coder 7B DeepSeek 32768 $1.14 57.3

Other benchmarks for Llama 3.3 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 62.5 496 17th
GPQA Diamond 54.2 477 21th
SWE-bench Verified 45.5 459 24th
HumanEval 64.2 450 25th
MATH-500 59.0 477 21th
AIME 2025 53.5 428 29th
LiveCodeBench 50.5 443 26th
TruthfulQA 65.9 445 26th
HellaSwag 75.8 430 28th
MMMU 60.1 427 29th
Arena Elo 1272.0 455 24th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3.3 8B get on IFEval?

Llama 3.3 8B scores 70.2 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Llama 3.3 8B rank on IFEval?

It ranks #457 of 600 models, in the 24th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Llama 3.3 8B good at IFEval?

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 IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following 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 3.3 8B cost?

Llama 3.3 8B costs $1.26 per million input tokens and $5.56 per million output tokens.

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