Qwen3 8B on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Qwen3 8B scores 75.6 on HellaSwag, placing it #433 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Qwen3 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg 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, Qwen3 8B sits at #433 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 20.5 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Qwen3 8B below the midpoint.
Alibaba Cloud models average 83.1 on this benchmark. Qwen3 8B is 7.5 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 70.2. Qwen3 8B is 5.4 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 75.6 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 HellaSwag. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefunction Mini | Fireworks AI | 32768 | $4.63 | 63.2 |
| Llama 3.3 8B | Meta AI | 8192 | $1.26 | 60.1 |
| Zephyr Instruct | Hugging Face | 4096 | $1.66 | 62.4 |
| Mistral Large 3 7B | Mistral AI | 32768 | $1.44 | 61.1 |
| Qwen3 8B | Alibaba Cloud | 8192 | $1.66 | 61.9 |
| GLM-4.6 7B | Zhipu AI | 16384 | $1.52 | 61.8 |
| GPT-NeoX Instruct | EleutherAI | 16384 | $1.52 | 62.6 |
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 | |
| MMMU | 59.8 | 430 | 28th | |
| Arena Elo | 1305.0 | 411 | 32th |
FAQ
What score does Qwen3 8B get on HellaSwag?
Qwen3 8B scores 75.6 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Qwen3 8B rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #433 of 600 models, in the 28th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Qwen3 8B good at HellaSwag?
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 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 Qwen3 8B cost?
Qwen3 8B costs $1.66 per million input tokens and $6.65 per million output tokens.