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Llama 3 Baseten Base on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Llama 3 Baseten Base scores 79.2 on IFEval, placing it #350 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
79.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#350
of 600
Percentile
42th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
16.9
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Llama 3 Baseten Base 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 Baseten Base sits at #350 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 16.9 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Llama 3 Baseten Base below the midpoint.

Baseten models average 74.4 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Baseten Base is 4.8 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Baseten model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 77.0. Llama 3 Baseten Base is 2.2 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 79.2 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 $3.16 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Baseten Base 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
Qwen3-Max Nano Alibaba Cloud 65536 $8.31 71.7
Codestral Base Mistral AI 8192 $3.31 73.1
Command A Mini Cohere 8192 $8.12 71.0
Command R+ Base Cohere 65536 $3.24 71.6
Llama 3 Baseten Base Baseten 16384 $3.16 72.4
Llama 3 Novita Base Novita AI 8192 $3.06 70.3
Phi-3.5 Chat Microsoft 16384 $2.64 69.0

Other benchmarks for Llama 3 Baseten Base

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 73.5 363 40th
GPQA Diamond 67.7 317 47th
SWE-bench Verified 62.9 254 58th
HumanEval 75.8 331 45th
MATH-500 75.9 301 50th
AIME 2025 69.1 278 54th
LiveCodeBench 67.1 245 59th
TruthfulQA 74.7 338 44th
HellaSwag 82.7 329 45th
MMMU 67.8 346 42th
Arena Elo 1366.8 327 46th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3 Baseten Base get on IFEval?

Llama 3 Baseten Base scores 79.2 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Llama 3 Baseten Base rank on IFEval?

It ranks #350 of 600 models, in the 42nd percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Llama 3 Baseten Base 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 Baseten Base cost?

Llama 3 Baseten Base costs $3.16 per million input tokens and $13.67 per million output tokens.

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