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Qwen3 7B on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Qwen3 7B scores 68.9 on IFEval, placing it #478 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
68.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#478
of 600
Percentile
20th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
27.2
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Qwen3 7B 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, Qwen3 7B sits at #478 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 27.2 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Qwen3 7B below the midpoint.

Alibaba Cloud models average 80.9 on this benchmark. Qwen3 7B is 12.0 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Alibaba Cloud model.

Among small open-weight models, the average is 64.9. Qwen3 7B is 4.0 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 68.9 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 $1.37 per million input tokens, Qwen3 7B 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
DeepSeek-Coder 8B DeepSeek 32768 $1.26 58.7
Llama 3.1 Cerebras 8B Cerebras 32768 $1.02 58.2
Mistral Large 3 7B Mistral AI 32768 $1.44 61.1
Mistral Small 3 8B Mistral AI 8192 $0.99 57.2
Qwen3 7B Alibaba Cloud 32768 $1.37 59.8
Yi-Lightning 8B 01.AI 4096 $1.16 59.2
Nemotron 4 8B NVIDIA 4096 $1.06 57.9

Other benchmarks for Qwen3 7B

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 64.2 466 22th
GPQA Diamond 55.2 460 23th
SWE-bench Verified 44.7 468 22th
HumanEval 65.2 439 27th
MATH-500 60.8 453 25th
AIME 2025 49.3 464 23th
LiveCodeBench 50.3 445 26th
TruthfulQA 65.8 447 26th
HellaSwag 77.0 416 31th
MMMU 56.4 481 20th
Arena Elo 1283.5 439 27th

FAQ

What score does Qwen3 7B get on IFEval?

Qwen3 7B scores 68.9 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Qwen3 7B rank on IFEval?

It ranks #478 of 600 models, in the 20th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Qwen3 7B good at IFEval?

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 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 Qwen3 7B cost?

Qwen3 7B costs $1.37 per million input tokens and $7.23 per million output tokens.

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