Pythia 8B on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means
Pythia 8B scores 24.1 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #594 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 distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Pythia 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg 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, Pythia 8B sits at #594 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 61.0 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Pythia 8B below the midpoint.
EleutherAI models average 38.6 on this benchmark. Pythia 8B is 14.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average EleutherAI model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 41.2. Pythia 8B is 17.1 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 24.1 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 $0.16 per million input tokens, Pythia 8B 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.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron Nano 1.5B | NVIDIA | 8192 | $0.10 | 41.5 |
| Pythia 7B | EleutherAI | 8192 | $0.10 | 40.7 |
| Arctic 1.5B | Snowflake | 32768 | $0.15 | 43.2 |
| Molmo 1.5B | Allen Institute for AI | 8192 | $0.21 | 42.8 |
| Pythia 8B | EleutherAI | 32768 | $0.16 | 41.4 |
| GPT-NeoX 7B | EleutherAI | 8192 | $0.20 | 42.4 |
| Zephyr 1.5B | Hugging Face | 32768 | $0.10 | 38.0 |
Other benchmarks for Pythia 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 50.3 | 593 | 1th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 38.2 | 592 | 1th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 27.3 | 588 | 2th | |
| HumanEval | 42.8 | 594 | 1th | |
| MATH-500 | 37.9 | 595 | 1th | |
| AIME 2025 | 29.8 | 584 | 3th | |
| IFEval | 53.9 | 593 | 1th | |
| TruthfulQA | 49.7 | 594 | 1th | |
| HellaSwag | 60.7 | 595 | 1th | |
| MMMU | 40.5 | 593 | 1th | |
| Arena Elo | 1130.8 | 592 | 1th |
FAQ
What score does Pythia 8B get on LiveCodeBench?
Pythia 8B scores 24.1 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.
How does Pythia 8B rank on LiveCodeBench?
It ranks #594 of 600 models, in the 1st percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Is Pythia 8B good at LiveCodeBench?
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 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 Pythia 8B cost?
Pythia 8B costs $0.16 per million input tokens and $0.79 per million output tokens.