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Llama 3 Lambda 7B on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

Llama 3 Lambda 7B scores 43.6 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #510 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Score
43.6
0–100 scale
Rank
#510
of 600
Percentile
15th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
41.5
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Llama 3 Lambda 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
2 Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
3 Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic 400000 $19.42 87.7
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 Grok 4 Turbo xAI 1000000 $19.21 86.7
6 GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
7 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
8 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
10 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9

What this score means

On LiveCodeBench, Llama 3 Lambda 7B sits at #510 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 41.5 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Llama 3 Lambda 7B below the midpoint.

Lambda models average 56.1 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Lambda 7B is 12.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Lambda model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 41.2. Llama 3 Lambda 7B is 2.4 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 43.6 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 $0.84 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Lambda 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Llama 3.1 Turbo 7B Together AI 8192 $0.98 56.4
Mistral Small 3 7B Mistral AI 4096 $0.89 55.2
GLM-4.6 1.5B Zhipu AI 4096 $0.92 54.7
Llama 3 Novita 8B Novita AI 16384 $0.99 55.5
Llama 3 Lambda 7B Lambda 8192 $0.84 55.4
Command R+ 8B Cohere 8192 $1.21 57.7
GLM-4.5 1.5B Zhipu AI 16384 $0.65 53.3

Other benchmarks for Llama 3 Lambda 7B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 62.4 497 17th
GPQA Diamond 52.4 495 18th
SWE-bench Verified 39.8 525 13th
HumanEval 61.0 489 19th
MATH-500 55.5 515 14th
AIME 2025 42.7 528 12th
IFEval 67.1 502 16th
TruthfulQA 63.9 470 22th
HellaSwag 69.9 534 11th
MMMU 51.1 541 10th
Arena Elo 1228.5 527 12th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3 Lambda 7B get on LiveCodeBench?

Llama 3 Lambda 7B scores 43.6 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Llama 3 Lambda 7B rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #510 of 600 models, in the 15th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Llama 3 Lambda 7B good at LiveCodeBench?

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 LiveCodeBench score calculated?

LiveCodeBench is a coding 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 7B cost?

Llama 3 Lambda 7B costs $0.84 per million input tokens and $3.23 per million output tokens.

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