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Llama 3 Modal Base on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Llama 3 Modal Base scores 79.7 on IFEval, placing it #340 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
79.7
0–100 scale
Rank
#340
of 600
Percentile
43th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
16.4
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Llama 3 Modal Base 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 Modal Base sits at #340 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 16.4 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Llama 3 Modal Base below the midpoint.

Modal models average 74.2 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Modal Base is 5.5 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Modal model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 77.0. Llama 3 Modal Base is 2.7 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 79.7 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 $3.21 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Modal Base 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
Mixtral Instruct Mistral AI 65536 $3.35 72.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Nano Anthropic 32768 $9.38 73.3
Gemma 3 Base Google DeepMind 65536 $3.09 71.1
Llama 3 DeepInfra Base DeepInfra 16384 $2.95 71.8
Llama 3 Modal Base Modal 16384 $3.21 72.2
Doubao 1.5 Pro Mini ByteDance 32768 $8.30 72.3
Llama 3.1 Turbo Base Together AI 16384 $3.30 73.0

Other benchmarks for Llama 3 Modal Base

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 76.6 288 52th
GPQA Diamond 66.2 340 43th
SWE-bench Verified 60.1 325 46th
HumanEval 78.9 268 55th
MATH-500 75.8 305 49th
AIME 2025 64.9 338 44th
LiveCodeBench 65.1 291 52th
TruthfulQA 73.6 363 40th
HellaSwag 84.1 279 54th
MMMU 68.9 327 46th
Arena Elo 1363.9 336 44th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3 Modal Base get on IFEval?

Llama 3 Modal Base scores 79.7 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Llama 3 Modal Base rank on IFEval?

It ranks #340 of 600 models, in the 43rd percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Llama 3 Modal Base 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 Modal Base cost?

Llama 3 Modal Base costs $3.21 per million input tokens and $17.08 per million output tokens.

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