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Nemotron 4 Base on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Nemotron 4 Base scores 81.4 on IFEval, placing it #294 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
81.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#294
of 600
Percentile
51th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
14.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Nemotron 4 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, Nemotron 4 Base sits at #294 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 14.7 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Nemotron 4 Base above the midpoint.

NVIDIA models average 71.3 on this benchmark. Nemotron 4 Base is 10.1 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average NVIDIA model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 77.0. Nemotron 4 Base is 4.4 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 81.4 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 $3.29 per million input tokens, Nemotron 4 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
Llama 3 DeepInfra DeepInfra 128000 $3.67 74.0
Llama 3 DeepInfra Chat DeepInfra 200000 $3.74 75.0
Llama 3 Modal Modal 32768 $3.82 74.9
Llama 3 Novita Instruct Novita AI 32768 $3.94 75.6
Nemotron 4 Base NVIDIA 8192 $3.29 73.0
Llama 3 Replicate Base Replicate 65536 $3.15 72.1
Llama 3 Hyperbolic Chat Hyperbolic 200000 $3.64 75.1

Other benchmarks for Nemotron 4 Base

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 76.5 292 51th
GPQA Diamond 68.9 299 50th
SWE-bench Verified 60.7 312 48th
HumanEval 76.8 311 48th
MATH-500 76.8 286 52th
AIME 2025 66.7 320 47th
LiveCodeBench 64.2 313 48th
TruthfulQA 75.4 323 46th
HellaSwag 85.1 241 60th
MMMU 70.9 276 54th
Arena Elo 1364.5 333 45th

FAQ

What score does Nemotron 4 Base get on IFEval?

Nemotron 4 Base scores 81.4 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Nemotron 4 Base rank on IFEval?

It ranks #294 of 600 models, in the 51st percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Nemotron 4 Base 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 Nemotron 4 Base cost?

Nemotron 4 Base costs $3.29 per million input tokens and $14.95 per million output tokens.

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