QwQ 7B on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means
QwQ 7B scores 44.3 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #505 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 distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with QwQ 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg 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, QwQ 7B sits at #505 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 40.8 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts QwQ 7B below the midpoint.
Alibaba Cloud models average 64.0 on this benchmark. QwQ 7B is 19.7 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 41.2. QwQ 7B is 3.1 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 44.3 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 LiveCodeBench. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed-OSS 7B | ByteDance | 8192 | $0.85 | 55.5 |
| Llama 3.3 Groq 7B | Groq | 16384 | $1.01 | 56.7 |
| Hunyuan-Large 7B | Tencent | 32768 | $1.08 | 57.7 |
| Llama 3 Baseten 8B | Baseten | 4096 | $1.02 | 57.0 |
| QwQ 7B | Alibaba Cloud | 8192 | $1.11 | 58.1 |
| Llama 3.1 Turbo 7B | Together AI | 8192 | $0.98 | 56.4 |
| Mistral Small 3 7B | Mistral AI | 4096 | $0.89 | 55.2 |
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 | |
| IFEval | 67.4 | 497 | 17th | |
| TruthfulQA | 64.7 | 463 | 23th | |
| HellaSwag | 73.5 | 469 | 22th | |
| MMMU | 54.1 | 507 | 16th | |
| Arena Elo | 1269.8 | 460 | 23th |
FAQ
What score does QwQ 7B get on LiveCodeBench?
QwQ 7B scores 44.3 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.
How does QwQ 7B rank on LiveCodeBench?
It ranks #505 of 600 models, in the 16th percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Is QwQ 7B good at LiveCodeBench?
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 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 QwQ 7B cost?
QwQ 7B costs $1.11 per million input tokens and $5.27 per million output tokens.