SmolLM3 8B on GPQA Diamond: score, rank and what it means
SmolLM3 8B scores 38.9 on GPQA Diamond, placing it #589 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on GPQA Diamond, with SmolLM3 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.98 | 87.5 |
| 2 | GPT-5.1 Max | OpenAI | 2000000 | $20.50 | 87.9 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 4 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 6 | GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.71 | 88.0 |
| 7 | o4 Turbo | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.34 | 86.6 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $20.90 | 87.8 |
| 9 | Grok 4 Turbo | xAI | 1000000 | $19.21 | 86.7 |
| 10 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max | Anthropic | 1000000 | $19.90 | 87.2 |
What this score means
On GPQA Diamond, SmolLM3 8B sits at #589 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Reasoning, scores 87.0, so the gap to the top is 48.1 points. The median model in this index scores 68.8, which puts SmolLM3 8B below the midpoint.
Hugging Face models average 49.3 on this benchmark. SmolLM3 8B is 10.4 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Hugging Face model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 49.3. SmolLM3 8B is 10.4 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 38.9 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 $0.21 per million input tokens, SmolLM3 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on GPQA Diamond. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixtral Groq 1.5B | Groq | 4096 | $0.34 | 46.1 |
| Molmo 1.5B | Allen Institute for AI | 8192 | $0.21 | 42.8 |
| Zephyr 8B | Hugging Face | 8192 | $0.22 | 43.0 |
| Arctic 1.5B | Snowflake | 32768 | $0.15 | 43.2 |
| SmolLM3 8B | Hugging Face | 32768 | $0.21 | 44.0 |
| Nemotron Nano 1.5B | NVIDIA | 8192 | $0.10 | 41.5 |
| Phi-3.5 1.5B | Microsoft | 32768 | $0.25 | 44.5 |
Other benchmarks for SmolLM3 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.2 | 589 | 2th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 27.8 | 586 | 2th | |
| HumanEval | 49.0 | 581 | 3th | |
| MATH-500 | 44.4 | 580 | 3th | |
| AIME 2025 | 26.2 | 591 | 2th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 31.3 | 581 | 3th | |
| IFEval | 56.3 | 589 | 2th | |
| TruthfulQA | 50.6 | 589 | 2th | |
| HellaSwag | 66.2 | 576 | 4th | |
| MMMU | 41.8 | 590 | 2th | |
| Arena Elo | 1153.0 | 584 | 3th |
FAQ
What score does SmolLM3 8B get on GPQA Diamond?
SmolLM3 8B scores 38.9 on GPQA Diamond in this index. The benchmark average is 65.6 and the top score is 87.0.
How does SmolLM3 8B rank on GPQA Diamond?
It ranks #589 of 600 models, in the 2nd percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Reasoning at 87.0.
Is SmolLM3 8B good at GPQA Diamond?
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 GPQA Diamond score calculated?
GPQA Diamond is a reasoning 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 SmolLM3 8B cost?
SmolLM3 8B costs $0.21 per million input tokens and $0.76 per million output tokens.