QwQ 7B on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
QwQ 7B scores 73.5 on HellaSwag, placing it #469 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 QwQ 7B 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, QwQ 7B sits at #469 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 22.6 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts QwQ 7B below the midpoint.
Alibaba Cloud models average 83.1 on this benchmark. QwQ 7B 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 70.2. QwQ 7B is 3.3 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 73.5 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yi-Large 8B | 01.AI | 32768 | $0.88 | 56.1 |
| Llama 3 Anyscale 8B | Anyscale | 32768 | $0.97 | 57.3 |
| Llama 3 Novita 8B | Novita AI | 16384 | $0.99 | 55.5 |
| Mistral Small 3 8B | Mistral AI | 8192 | $0.99 | 57.2 |
| QwQ 7B | Alibaba Cloud | 8192 | $1.11 | 58.1 |
| GLM-4.5 8B | Zhipu AI | 32768 | $1.46 | 61.3 |
| GPT-NeoX Chat | EleutherAI | 16384 | $1.49 | 60.1 |
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 | |
| MMMU | 54.1 | 507 | 16th | |
| Arena Elo | 1269.8 | 460 | 23th |
FAQ
What score does QwQ 7B get on HellaSwag?
QwQ 7B scores 73.5 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does QwQ 7B rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #469 of 600 models, in the 22nd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is QwQ 7B 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 QwQ 7B cost?
QwQ 7B costs $1.11 per million input tokens and $5.27 per million output tokens.