StableLM 2 Base on Arena Elo: score, rank and what it means
StableLM 2 Base scores 1288.1 on Arena Elo, placing it #433 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 StableLM 2 Base 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, StableLM 2 Base sits at #433 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Max, scores 1501.9, so the gap to the top is 213.8 points. The median model in this index scores 1373.8, which puts StableLM 2 Base below the midpoint.
Stability AI models average 1232.1 on this benchmark. StableLM 2 Base is 56.0 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Stability AI model.
Among open-weight models, the average is 1338.0. StableLM 2 Base is 49.9 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 1288.1 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 $1.49 per million input tokens, StableLM 2 Base 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-NeoX Instruct | EleutherAI | 16384 | $1.52 | 62.6 |
| Pythia Instruct | EleutherAI | 8192 | $1.41 | 60.8 |
| Auto Mini | OpenRouter | 4096 | $4.24 | 61.6 |
| ERNIE 4.0 Nano | Baidu | 32768 | $4.68 | 62.1 |
| StableLM 2 Base | Stability AI | 8192 | $1.49 | 61.9 |
| QwQ 8B | Alibaba Cloud | 16384 | $1.37 | 59.5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick 7B | Meta AI | 4096 | $1.52 | 61.9 |
Other benchmarks for StableLM 2 Base
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 67.7 | 421 | 30th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 58.5 | 421 | 30th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 44.7 | 469 | 22th | |
| HumanEval | 67.3 | 418 | 30th | |
| MATH-500 | 63.9 | 426 | 29th | |
| AIME 2025 | 55.9 | 410 | 32th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 53.3 | 416 | 31th | |
| IFEval | 70.8 | 444 | 26th | |
| TruthfulQA | 66.9 | 432 | 28th | |
| HellaSwag | 74.2 | 453 | 25th | |
| MMMU | 57.4 | 463 | 23th |
FAQ
What score does StableLM 2 Base get on Arena Elo?
StableLM 2 Base scores 1288.1 on Arena Elo in this index. The benchmark average is 1349.9 and the top score is 1501.9.
How does StableLM 2 Base rank on Arena Elo?
It ranks #433 of 600 models, in the 28th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Max at 1501.9.
Is StableLM 2 Base 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 StableLM 2 Base cost?
StableLM 2 Base costs $1.49 per million input tokens and $5.44 per million output tokens.