StableLM 2 Base on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
StableLM 2 Base scores 74.2 on HellaSwag, placing it #453 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 StableLM 2 Base 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, StableLM 2 Base sits at #453 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 21.9 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts StableLM 2 Base below the midpoint.
Stability AI models average 71.3 on this benchmark. StableLM 2 Base is 2.9 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Stability AI model.
Among open-weight models, the average is 80.2. StableLM 2 Base is 6.0 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 74.2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reka Flash Nano | Reka AI | 16384 | $3.93 | 61.0 |
| MiniMax-M2 7B | MiniMax | 8192 | $1.44 | 60.8 |
| Kimi K1.5 7B | Moonshot AI | 8192 | $1.35 | 59.9 |
| DeepSeek-R1 1.5B | DeepSeek | 16384 | $1.04 | 56.6 |
| StableLM 2 Base | Stability AI | 8192 | $1.49 | 61.9 |
| Command R+ 8B | Cohere | 8192 | $1.21 | 57.7 |
| Yi-Lightning 8B | 01.AI | 4096 | $1.16 | 59.2 |
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 | |
| MMMU | 57.4 | 463 | 23th | |
| Arena Elo | 1288.1 | 433 | 28th |
FAQ
What score does StableLM 2 Base get on HellaSwag?
StableLM 2 Base scores 74.2 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does StableLM 2 Base rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #453 of 600 models, in the 25th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is StableLM 2 Base 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 StableLM 2 Base cost?
StableLM 2 Base costs $1.49 per million input tokens and $5.44 per million output tokens.