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Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B scores 60.7 on IFEval, placing it #568 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
60.7
0–100 scale
Rank
#568
of 600
Percentile
5th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
35.4
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B 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 Lambda 1.5B sits at #568 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 35.4 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B below the midpoint.

Lambda models average 75.1 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B is 14.4 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Lambda model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 64.9. Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B is 4.2 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 60.7 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 $0.46 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B 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
Embed 4 Nano Cohere 8192 $1.48 49.7
Nemotron 4 1.5B NVIDIA 32768 $0.49 50.8
Seed-OSS 1.5B ByteDance 4096 $0.45 49.8
StableLM 2 8B Stability AI 32768 $0.38 47.0
Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B Lambda 16384 $0.46 48.4
Nemotron Nano 7B NVIDIA 8192 $0.35 47.5
Llama 3 Modal 1.5B Modal 4096 $0.42 49.7

Other benchmarks for Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 57.2 560 7th
GPQA Diamond 46.3 555 8th
SWE-bench Verified 30.7 579 4th
HumanEval 49.3 578 4th
MATH-500 50.1 556 7th
AIME 2025 37.9 552 8th
LiveCodeBench 33.1 577 4th
TruthfulQA 53.8 579 4th
HellaSwag 65.9 577 4th
MMMU 47.1 571 5th
Arena Elo 1174.5 580 3th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B get on IFEval?

Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B scores 60.7 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B rank on IFEval?

It ranks #568 of 600 models, in the 5th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B 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 Lambda 1.5B cost?

Llama 3 Lambda 1.5B costs $0.46 per million input tokens and $1.91 per million output tokens.

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