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

Llama 3 Modal Instruct scores 83.7 on IFEval, placing it #219 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
83.7
0–100 scale
Rank
#219
of 600
Percentile
64th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
12.4
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Llama 3 Modal Instruct 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 Instruct sits at #219 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 12.4 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Llama 3 Modal Instruct above the midpoint.

Modal models average 74.2 on this benchmark. Llama 3 Modal Instruct is 9.5 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Modal model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 85.2. Llama 3 Modal Instruct is 1.5 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 83.7 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 $3.84 per million input tokens, Llama 3 Modal Instruct 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
ERNIE 4.0 Reasoning Baidu 65536 $12.20 77.8
Llama 3 Baseten Baseten 128000 $3.62 74.9
Gemma 3 Chat Google DeepMind 65536 $3.74 74.5
Llama 3 Hyperbolic Hyperbolic 65536 $3.86 74.5
Llama 3 Modal Instruct Modal 128000 $3.84 75.2
Llama 3 Replicate Instruct Replicate 128000 $3.71 75.1
Sonar Pro Perplexity 65536 $11.25 77.1

Other benchmarks for Llama 3 Modal Instruct

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 80.6 166 72th
GPQA Diamond 71.9 221 63th
SWE-bench Verified 63.6 244 59th
HumanEval 79.5 248 59th
MATH-500 81.3 183 70th
AIME 2025 68.7 285 53th
LiveCodeBench 67.0 251 58th
TruthfulQA 78.6 233 61th
HellaSwag 83.5 305 49th
MMMU 69.2 323 46th
Arena Elo 1407.2 189 69th

FAQ

What score does Llama 3 Modal Instruct get on IFEval?

Llama 3 Modal Instruct scores 83.7 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Llama 3 Modal Instruct rank on IFEval?

It ranks #219 of 600 models, in the 64th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Llama 3 Modal Instruct good at IFEval?

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 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 Instruct cost?

Llama 3 Modal Instruct costs $3.84 per million input tokens and $18.84 per million output tokens.

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