QwQ 7B on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means
QwQ 7B scores 1269.8 on Arena Elo, placing it #460 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 QwQ 7B 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, QwQ 7B sits at #460 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 232.1 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts QwQ 7B below the midpoint.
Alibaba Cloud models average 1370.9 on this benchmark. QwQ 7B is 101.1 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. QwQ 7B is 45.1 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 1269.8 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 $1.11 per million input tokens, QwQ 7B 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pythia Chat | EleutherAI | 4096 | $1.31 | 59.1 |
| GPT-NeoX Chat | EleutherAI | 16384 | $1.49 | 60.1 |
| Zephyr Base | Hugging Face | 4096 | $1.26 | 59.5 |
| Kimi K1.5 7B | Moonshot AI | 8192 | $1.35 | 59.9 |
| QwQ 7B | Alibaba Cloud | 8192 | $1.11 | 58.1 |
| Llama 3.3 7B | Meta AI | 8192 | $1.18 | 57.8 |
| GLM-4.5 8B | Zhipu AI | 32768 | $1.46 | 61.3 |
Other benchmarks for QwQ 7B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 64.9 | 455 | 24th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.2 | 509 | 15th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 46.4 | 450 | 25th | |
| HumanEval | 62.5 | 463 | 23th | |
| MATH-500 | 60.5 | 455 | 24th | |
| AIME 2025 | 49.8 | 463 | 23th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 44.3 | 505 | 16th | |
| IFEval | 67.4 | 497 | 17th | |
| TruthfulQA | 64.7 | 463 | 23th | |
| HellaSwag | 73.5 | 469 | 22th | |
| MMMU | 54.1 | 507 | 16th |
FAQ
What score does QwQ 7B get on Arena Elo?
QwQ 7B scores 1269.8 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.
How does QwQ 7B rank on Arena Elo?
It ranks #460 of 600 models, in the 23rd percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.
Is QwQ 7B 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 QwQ 7B cost?
QwQ 7B costs $1.11 per million input tokens and $5.27 per million output tokens.