Qwen3-Coder 8B on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Qwen3-Coder 8B scores 76.6 on HellaSwag, placing it #419 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-Coder 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-Coder 8B sits at #419 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 19.5 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Qwen3-Coder 8B below the midpoint.
Alibaba Cloud models average 83.1 on this benchmark. Qwen3-Coder 8B is 6.5 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Alibaba Cloud model.
Among coding models, the average is 80.7. Qwen3-Coder 8B is 4.1 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 76.6 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 $1.43 per million input tokens, Qwen3-Coder 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embed 4 Turbo | Cohere | 4096 | $5.13 | 64.0 |
| Qwen3 7B | Alibaba Cloud | 32768 | $1.37 | 59.8 |
| Embed 4 Max | Cohere | 8192 | $5.68 | 66.1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick 8B | Meta AI | 4096 | $1.64 | 63.4 |
| Qwen3-Coder 8B | Alibaba Cloud | 32768 | $1.43 | 61.3 |
| Embed 4 Reasoning | Cohere | 4096 | $5.50 | 65.3 |
| Zephyr Chat | Hugging Face | 4096 | $1.49 | 61.3 |
Other benchmarks for Qwen3-Coder 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 67.6 | 423 | 30th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.4 | 459 | 24th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 46.0 | 453 | 25th | |
| HumanEval | 64.6 | 446 | 26th | |
| MATH-500 | 63.5 | 430 | 28th | |
| AIME 2025 | 54.4 | 418 | 30th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 52.4 | 423 | 30th | |
| IFEval | 70.1 | 461 | 23th | |
| TruthfulQA | 64.9 | 461 | 23th | |
| MMMU | 58.8 | 444 | 26th | |
| Arena Elo | 1286.5 | 436 | 27th |
FAQ
What score does Qwen3-Coder 8B get on HellaSwag?
Qwen3-Coder 8B scores 76.6 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Qwen3-Coder 8B rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #419 of 600 models, in the 30th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Qwen3-Coder 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-Coder 8B cost?
Qwen3-Coder 8B costs $1.43 per million input tokens and $7.30 per million output tokens.