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Llama 3 Lambda 8B on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

Llama 3 Lambda 8B scores 45.4 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #494 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
45.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#494
of 600
Percentile
18th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
39.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Llama 3 Lambda 8B 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 8B sits at #494 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 39.7 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Llama 3 Lambda 8B below the midpoint.

Lambda models average 56.1 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Lambda 8B is 10.7 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 8B is 4.2 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 45.4 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 $1.03 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Lambda 8B 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
Yi-Lightning 7B 01.AI 32768 $1.00 55.9
Hunyuan-Large 8B Tencent 4096 $1.29 58.7
Pythia Base EleutherAI 16384 $0.99 55.9
DeepSeek-V3.2 1.5B DeepSeek 4096 $1.02 56.9
Llama 3 Lambda 8B Lambda 4096 $1.03 57.2
Llama 3 Modal 7B Modal 4096 $0.88 55.2
Llama 3 Novita 7B Novita AI 8192 $0.92 56.3

Other benchmarks for Llama 3 Lambda 8B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 63.7 478 20th
GPQA Diamond 53.8 485 19th
SWE-bench Verified 43.7 482 20th
HumanEval 61.9 469 22th
MATH-500 58.0 489 19th
AIME 2025 46.5 483 20th
IFEval 68.7 481 20th
TruthfulQA 60.8 521 13th
HellaSwag 71.2 516 14th
MMMU 55.5 493 18th
Arena Elo 1240.4 513 15th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3 Lambda 8B get on LiveCodeBench?

Llama 3 Lambda 8B scores 45.4 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Llama 3 Lambda 8B rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #494 of 600 models, in the 18th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Llama 3 Lambda 8B 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 8B cost?

Llama 3 Lambda 8B costs $1.03 per million input tokens and $4.78 per million output tokens.

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