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Qwen3 Base on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

Qwen3 Base scores 68.8 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #214 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
68.8
0–100 scale
Rank
#214
of 600
Percentile
64th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
16.3
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Qwen3 Base highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg 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, Qwen3 Base sits at #214 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 16.3 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Qwen3 Base above the midpoint.

Alibaba Cloud models average 64.0 on this benchmark. Qwen3 Base is 4.8 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Alibaba Cloud model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 70.3. Qwen3 Base is 1.5 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 68.8 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 $4.33 per million input tokens, Qwen3 Base is above 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.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Phi-4 Chat Microsoft 65536 $3.66 74.7
Qwen3-Coder Chat Alibaba Cloud 128000 $4.59 78.4
ERNIE 4.0 Pro Baidu 200000 $12.58 77.5
QwQ Chat Alibaba Cloud 65536 $4.28 78.2
Qwen3 Base Alibaba Cloud 65536 $4.33 77.4
Nova Lite Pro Amazon 200000 $9.69 74.1
Llama 3.1 Chat Meta AI 32768 $3.82 75.3

Other benchmarks for Qwen3 Base

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 80.5 170 72th
GPQA Diamond 75.8 127 79th
SWE-bench Verified 66.7 176 71th
HumanEval 80.5 224 63th
MATH-500 83.9 126 79th
AIME 2025 69.8 262 56th
IFEval 85.3 179 70th
TruthfulQA 79.0 220 63th
HellaSwag 85.4 230 62th
MMMU 76.0 141 77th
Arena Elo 1408.2 186 69th

FAQ

What score does Qwen3 Base get on LiveCodeBench?

Qwen3 Base scores 68.8 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does Qwen3 Base rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #214 of 600 models, in the 64th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is Qwen3 Base good at LiveCodeBench?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. 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 Qwen3 Base cost?

Qwen3 Base costs $4.33 per million input tokens and $15.39 per million output tokens.

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