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o4 Turbo on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means

o4 Turbo scores 91.3 on HellaSwag, placing it #54 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.

Score
91.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#54
of 600
Percentile
91th
within the index
Benchmark avg
81.4
all models
Leader
96.1
GPT-5.2 Max
Gap to leader
4.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with o4 Turbo highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Max 96.1
GPT-5.2 Turbo 95.5
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.3
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 95.2
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 95.2
Grok 4 Reasoning 95.2
GPT-5.2 Vision 94.6
Gemini 3 Pro Turbo 94.6
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.4
o4 Pro 94.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg 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, o4 Turbo sits at #54 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 4.8 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts o4 Turbo above the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 90.5 on this benchmark. o4 Turbo is 0.8 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average OpenAI model.

Among frontier models, the average is 92.3. o4 Turbo is 1.0 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 91.3 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 $19.34 per million input tokens, o4 Turbo is above 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.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Grok 3 xAI 128000 $15.84 82.8
Qwen3-Max Max Alibaba Cloud 400000 $18.53 85.9
GPT-5.1 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.19 86.1
Gemini 3 Pro Google DeepMind 2000000 $18.24 86.1
o4 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.34 86.6
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Max Anthropic 128000 $16.88 83.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro Turbo Google DeepMind 1000000 $16.32 83.9

Other benchmarks for o4 Turbo

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 88.1 16 97th
GPQA Diamond 84.8 7 99th
SWE-bench Verified 78.4 14 98th
HumanEval 91.0 34 94th
MATH-500 91.7 28 95th
AIME 2025 85.9 27 96th
LiveCodeBench 80.1 44 93th
IFEval 92.6 28 95th
TruthfulQA 88.8 16 97th
MMMU 79.6 65 89th
Arena Elo 1468.1 37 94th

FAQ

What score does o4 Turbo get on HellaSwag?

o4 Turbo scores 91.3 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.

How does o4 Turbo rank on HellaSwag?

It ranks #54 of 600 models, in the 91st percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.

Is o4 Turbo good at HellaSwag?

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 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 o4 Turbo cost?

o4 Turbo costs $19.34 per million input tokens and $82.19 per million output tokens.

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