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Llama 3 Baseten 8B on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means

Llama 3 Baseten 8B scores 1269.0 on Arena Elo, placing it #463 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
1269.0
0–100 scale
Rank
#463
of 600
Percentile
23th
within the index
Benchmark avg
1349.9
all models
Leader
1501.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Max
Gap to leader
232.9
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with Llama 3 Baseten 8B 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, Llama 3 Baseten 8B sits at #463 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 232.9 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts Llama 3 Baseten 8B below the midpoint.

Baseten models average 1320.9 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Baseten 8B is 51.9 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Baseten model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 1224.7. Llama 3 Baseten 8B is 44.3 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 1269.0 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 $1.02 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Baseten 8B 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
Kimi K1.5 7B Moonshot AI 8192 $1.35 59.9
QwQ 7B Alibaba Cloud 8192 $1.11 58.1
Llama 3.3 7B Meta AI 8192 $1.18 57.8
GLM-4.5 8B Zhipu AI 32768 $1.46 61.3
Llama 3 Baseten 8B Baseten 4096 $1.02 57.0
Reka Flash Nano Reka AI 16384 $3.93 61.0
Seed-OSS 8B ByteDance 8192 $1.05 57.1

Other benchmarks for Llama 3 Baseten 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 63.6 481 20th
GPQA Diamond 54.9 465 23th
SWE-bench Verified 44.9 466 22th
HumanEval 61.5 474 21th
MATH-500 58.2 487 19th
AIME 2025 44.7 499 17th
LiveCodeBench 44.3 504 16th
IFEval 67.1 501 17th
TruthfulQA 63.1 488 19th
HellaSwag 71.4 512 15th
MMMU 53.8 508 15th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3 Baseten 8B get on Arena Elo?

Llama 3 Baseten 8B scores 1269.0 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.

How does Llama 3 Baseten 8B rank on Arena Elo?

It ranks #463 of 600 models, in the 23rd percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.

Is Llama 3 Baseten 8B 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 Llama 3 Baseten 8B cost?

Llama 3 Baseten 8B costs $1.02 per million input tokens and $5.38 per million output tokens.

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