Qwen3 8B on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means
Qwen3 8B scores 1305.0 on Arena Elo, placing it #411 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on Arena Elo, with Qwen3 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.98 | 87.5 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 2000000 | $20.91 | 88.2 |
| 5 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 6 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 7 | Grok 4 Max | xAI | 2000000 | $19.70 | 86.6 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Pro | OpenAI | 200000 | $19.77 | 87.8 |
| 10 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
What this score means
On Arena Elo, Qwen3 8B sits at #411 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 196.9 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts Qwen3 8B below the midpoint.
Alibaba Cloud models average 1370.9 on this benchmark. Qwen3 8B is 65.9 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 1224.7. Qwen3 8B is 80.3 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 1305.0 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 $1.66 per million input tokens, Qwen3 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on Arena Elo. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reka Core Nano | Reka AI | 16384 | $5.45 | 65.1 |
| Embed 4 Reasoning | Cohere | 4096 | $5.50 | 65.3 |
| ERNIE 4.5 Nano | Baidu | 32768 | $6.01 | 65.6 |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 8B | DeepSeek | 32768 | $2.02 | 66.2 |
| Qwen3 8B | Alibaba Cloud | 8192 | $1.66 | 61.9 |
| Kimi K2 7B | Moonshot AI | 16384 | $1.72 | 62.7 |
| Sonar Nano | Perplexity | 4096 | $4.37 | 61.9 |
Other benchmarks for Qwen3 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 66.5 | 432 | 28th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2 | 437 | 27th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 51.0 | 413 | 31th | |
| HumanEval | 65.7 | 434 | 28th | |
| MATH-500 | 62.8 | 438 | 27th | |
| AIME 2025 | 52.6 | 438 | 27th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 51.5 | 433 | 28th | |
| IFEval | 71.0 | 442 | 26th | |
| TruthfulQA | 67.2 | 427 | 29th | |
| HellaSwag | 75.6 | 433 | 28th | |
| MMMU | 59.8 | 430 | 28th |
FAQ
What score does Qwen3 8B get on Arena Elo?
Qwen3 8B scores 1305.0 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.
How does Qwen3 8B rank on Arena Elo?
It ranks #411 of 600 models, in the 32nd percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.
Is Qwen3 8B good at Arena Elo?
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 Arena Elo score calculated?
Arena Elo is a preference 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 8B cost?
Qwen3 8B costs $1.66 per million input tokens and $6.65 per million output tokens.