Llama 3 Modal 8B on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Llama 3 Modal 8B scores 71.5 on HellaSwag, placing it #509 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Llama 3 Modal 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 10 | o4 Pro | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.37 | 87.3 |
What this score means
On HellaSwag, Llama 3 Modal 8B sits at #509 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 24.6 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Llama 3 Modal 8B below the midpoint.
Modal models average 77.7 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Modal 8B is 6.2 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Modal model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 70.2. Llama 3 Modal 8B is 1.3 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 71.5 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 $0.98 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Modal 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HellaSwag. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunyuan-Large 7B | Tencent | 32768 | $1.08 | 57.7 |
| Nemotron 4 8B | NVIDIA | 4096 | $1.06 | 57.9 |
| Mixtral Groq 8B | Groq | 32768 | $0.77 | 54.8 |
| Yi-Lightning 7B | 01.AI | 32768 | $1.00 | 55.9 |
| Llama 3 Modal 8B | Modal | 32768 | $0.98 | 56.6 |
| Mixtral 8B | Mistral AI | 8192 | $0.91 | 55.4 |
| Llama 3 Baseten 7B | Baseten | 32768 | $0.87 | 55.3 |
Other benchmarks for Llama 3 Modal 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 64.3 | 463 | 23th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 54.6 | 469 | 22th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 44.6 | 470 | 22th | |
| HumanEval | 58.0 | 523 | 13th | |
| MATH-500 | 59.7 | 470 | 22th | |
| AIME 2025 | 43.8 | 512 | 15th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 42.5 | 522 | 13th | |
| IFEval | 66.5 | 511 | 15th | |
| TruthfulQA | 60.5 | 525 | 13th | |
| MMMU | 57.0 | 470 | 22th | |
| Arena Elo | 1236.3 | 520 | 13th |
FAQ
What score does Llama 3 Modal 8B get on HellaSwag?
Llama 3 Modal 8B scores 71.5 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Llama 3 Modal 8B rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #509 of 600 models, in the 15th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Llama 3 Modal 8B good at HellaSwag?
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 HellaSwag score calculated?
HellaSwag is a commonsense 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 Modal 8B cost?
Llama 3 Modal 8B costs $0.98 per million input tokens and $4.54 per million output tokens.