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Pythia 7B on MMMU: score, rank and what it means

Pythia 7B scores 38.7 on MMMU, placing it #597 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 67.1 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 86.9.

Score
38.7
0–100 scale
Rank
#597
of 600
Percentile
1th
within the index
Benchmark avg
67.1
all models
Leader
86.9
GPT-5.2 Max
Gap to leader
48.2
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on MMMU, with Pythia 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Max 86.9
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 86.2
GPT-5.2 85.3
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.2
GPT-5.1 Max 85.1
Grok 4 Pro 84.9
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Pro 84.5
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.4
GPT-5.2 Vision 84.4

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
2 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
3 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
5 GPT-5.1 Max OpenAI 2000000 $20.50 87.9
6 Grok 4 Pro xAI 1000000 $19.00 85.4
7 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Pro Anthropic 1000000 $18.73 86.7
9 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
10 GPT-5.2 Vision OpenAI 1000000 $19.03 87.4

What this score means

On MMMU, Pythia 7B sits at #597 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 86.9, so the gap to the top is 48.2 points. The median model in this index scores 70.0, which puts Pythia 7B below the midpoint.

EleutherAI models average 50.0 on this benchmark. Pythia 7B is 11.3 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average EleutherAI model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 52.4. Pythia 7B is 13.7 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 38.7 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 $0.10 per million input tokens, Pythia 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on MMMU. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Pythia 8B EleutherAI 32768 $0.16 41.4
SmolLM3 7B Hugging Face 16384 $0.19 44.3
StableLM 2 1.5B Stability AI 16384 $0.13 38.3
Zephyr 1.5B Hugging Face 32768 $0.10 38.0
Pythia 7B EleutherAI 8192 $0.10 40.7
GPT-NeoX 1.5B EleutherAI 32768 $0.06 36.4
SmolLM3 1.5B Hugging Face 8192 $0.04 36.8

Other benchmarks for Pythia 7B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 50.4 592 1th
GPQA Diamond 35.1 596 1th
SWE-bench Verified 26.8 589 2th
HumanEval 42.9 593 1th
MATH-500 42.3 589 2th
AIME 2025 24.1 596 1th
LiveCodeBench 25.9 591 2th
IFEval 52.4 595 1th
TruthfulQA 47.1 597 1th
HellaSwag 61.7 593 1th
Arena Elo 1137.4 588 2th

FAQ

What score does Pythia 7B get on MMMU?

Pythia 7B scores 38.7 on MMMU in this index. The benchmark average is 67.1 and the top score is 86.9.

How does Pythia 7B rank on MMMU?

It ranks #597 of 600 models, in the 1st percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 86.9.

Is Pythia 7B good at MMMU?

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 MMMU score calculated?

MMMU is a multimodal 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 Pythia 7B cost?

Pythia 7B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.36 per million output tokens.

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