Llama 3 Lambda on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means
Llama 3 Lambda scores 70.1 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #190 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 distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Llama 3 Lambda highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg 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 sits at #190 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 15.0 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Llama 3 Lambda above the midpoint.
Lambda models average 56.1 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Lambda is 14.0 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Lambda model.
Among multimodal models, the average is 70.3. Llama 3 Lambda is 0.2 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 70.1 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 $3.90 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Lambda 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.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yi-Lightning Instruct | 01.AI | 128000 | $4.16 | 76.5 |
| ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning | Baidu | 65536 | $12.20 | 77.8 |
| ERNIE 4.0 Max | Baidu | 32768 | $12.40 | 78.9 |
| Llama 3 Baseten Instruct | Baseten | 200000 | $3.91 | 76.2 |
| Llama 3 Lambda | Lambda | 65536 | $3.90 | 75.6 |
| Nemotron 4 | NVIDIA | 65536 | $4.18 | 76.6 |
| Kimi K2 Base | Moonshot AI | 65536 | $4.82 | 79.2 |
Other benchmarks for Llama 3 Lambda
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 78.6 | 225 | 63th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 71.7 | 227 | 62th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 62.8 | 258 | 57th | |
| HumanEval | 81.4 | 202 | 66th | |
| MATH-500 | 79.8 | 214 | 64th | |
| AIME 2025 | 69.9 | 258 | 57th | |
| IFEval | 81.6 | 284 | 53th | |
| TruthfulQA | 78.3 | 245 | 59th | |
| HellaSwag | 83.7 | 292 | 51th | |
| MMMU | 74.1 | 186 | 69th | |
| Arena Elo | 1390.8 | 247 | 59th |
FAQ
What score does Llama 3 Lambda get on LiveCodeBench?
Llama 3 Lambda scores 70.1 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.
How does Llama 3 Lambda rank on LiveCodeBench?
It ranks #190 of 600 models, in the 68th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Is Llama 3 Lambda good at LiveCodeBench?
Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. 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 cost?
Llama 3 Lambda costs $3.90 per million input tokens and $15.06 per million output tokens.