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

Llama 3 Modal Base scores 65.1 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #291 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
65.1
0–100 scale
Rank
#291
of 600
Percentile
52th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
20.0
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Llama 3 Modal Base 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 Modal Base sits at #291 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 20.0 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Llama 3 Modal Base above the midpoint.

Modal models average 56.1 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Modal Base is 9.0 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Modal model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 59.1. Llama 3 Modal Base is 6.0 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 65.1 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 $3.21 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Modal Base 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
Seed-OSS Instruct ByteDance 128000 $3.79 76.0
Arctic Instruct Snowflake 65536 $2.83 70.6
Doubao 1.5 Pro Mini ByteDance 32768 $8.30 72.3
Auto Reasoning OpenRouter 65536 $8.39 71.5
Llama 3 Modal Base Modal 16384 $3.21 72.2
Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI 32768 $3.90 75.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Nano Anthropic 32768 $9.38 73.3

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
IFEval 79.7 340 43th
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 LiveCodeBench?

Llama 3 Modal Base scores 65.1 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Llama 3 Modal Base rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #291 of 600 models, in the 52nd percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Llama 3 Modal Base 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 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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