Qwen3 8B on MMMU: score, rank and what it means
Qwen3 8B scores 59.8 on MMMU, placing it #430 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 67.1 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 86.9.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on MMMU, 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-5.1 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, Qwen3 8B sits at #430 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 86.9, so the gap to the top is 27.1 points. The median model in this index scores 70.0, which puts Qwen3 8B below the midpoint.
Alibaba Cloud models average 69.4 on this benchmark. Qwen3 8B is 9.6 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 52.4. Qwen3 8B is 7.4 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 59.8 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 MMMU. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SmolLM3 Chat | Hugging Face | 16384 | $1.61 | 62.1 |
| Llama 3.3 8B | Meta AI | 8192 | $1.26 | 60.1 |
| Pythia Chat | EleutherAI | 4096 | $1.31 | 59.1 |
| Llama 4 Scout 7B | Meta AI | 32768 | $1.30 | 60.0 |
| Qwen3 8B | Alibaba Cloud | 8192 | $1.66 | 61.9 |
| Mistral Large 3 8B | Mistral AI | 16384 | $1.62 | 61.6 |
| GLM-4.5 7B | Zhipu AI | 8192 | $1.32 | 60.2 |
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 | |
| Arena Elo | 1305.0 | 411 | 32th |
FAQ
What score does Qwen3 8B get on MMMU?
Qwen3 8B scores 59.8 on MMMU in this index. The benchmark average is 67.1 and the top score is 86.9.
How does Qwen3 8B rank on MMMU?
It ranks #430 of 600 models, in the 28th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 86.9.
Is Qwen3 8B 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 Qwen3 8B cost?
Qwen3 8B costs $1.66 per million input tokens and $6.65 per million output tokens.