QwQ 8B on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means
QwQ 8B scores 47.3 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #443 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with QwQ 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 2 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 4 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $19.90 | 87.2 |
| 5 | GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.71 | 88.0 |
| 6 | GPT-5.1 Pro | OpenAI | 200000 | $19.77 | 87.8 |
| 7 | o4 Max | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.51 | 86.2 |
| 8 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 10 | Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 2000000 | $20.91 | 88.2 |
What this score means
On SWE-bench Verified, QwQ 8B sits at #443 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 34.4 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts QwQ 8B below the midpoint.
Alibaba Cloud models average 60.8 on this benchmark. QwQ 8B is 13.5 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 39.0. QwQ 8B is 8.3 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 47.3 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 $1.37 per million input tokens, QwQ 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on SWE-bench Verified. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Lite Nano | Amazon | 8192 | $3.29 | 59.5 |
| GPT-NeoX Chat | EleutherAI | 16384 | $1.49 | 60.1 |
| Fusion Mini | OpenRouter | 4096 | $4.89 | 63.3 |
| SmolLM3 Chat | Hugging Face | 16384 | $1.61 | 62.1 |
| QwQ 8B | Alibaba Cloud | 16384 | $1.37 | 59.5 |
| SmolLM3 | Hugging Face | 8192 | $1.71 | 63.1 |
| Pythia Instruct | EleutherAI | 8192 | $1.41 | 60.8 |
Other benchmarks for QwQ 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 64.6 | 460 | 23th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.7 | 454 | 24th | |
| HumanEval | 64.2 | 451 | 25th | |
| MATH-500 | 60.4 | 456 | 24th | |
| AIME 2025 | 47.0 | 477 | 21th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 49.0 | 456 | 24th | |
| IFEval | 71.3 | 436 | 27th | |
| TruthfulQA | 63.7 | 478 | 20th | |
| HellaSwag | 73.0 | 483 | 20th | |
| MMMU | 58.5 | 450 | 25th | |
| Arena Elo | 1287.7 | 434 | 28th |
FAQ
What score does QwQ 8B get on SWE-bench Verified?
QwQ 8B scores 47.3 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.
How does QwQ 8B rank on SWE-bench Verified?
It ranks #443 of 600 models, in the 26th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.
Is QwQ 8B good at SWE-bench Verified?
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 SWE-bench Verified score calculated?
SWE-bench Verified 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 8B cost?
QwQ 8B costs $1.37 per million input tokens and $6.68 per million output tokens.