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StableLM 2 Base on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means

StableLM 2 Base scores 53.3 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #416 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
53.3
0–100 scale
Rank
#416
of 600
Percentile
31th
within the index
Benchmark avg
61.0
all models
Leader
85.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning
Gap to leader
31.8
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with StableLM 2 Base highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 85.1
Grok 4 Reasoning 85.1
Claude Opus 4.5 85.0
GPT-5.2 Max 84.8
Grok 4 Turbo 84.7
GPT-5.1 Turbo 84.6
GPT-5.2 Pro 84.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 84.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 84.1
Gemini 3 Pro Max 83.6

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg 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, StableLM 2 Base sits at #416 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 31.8 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts StableLM 2 Base below the midpoint.

Stability AI models average 42.9 on this benchmark. StableLM 2 Base is 10.4 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Stability AI model.

Among open-weight models, the average is 59.1. StableLM 2 Base is 5.8 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 53.3 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 $1.49 per million input tokens, StableLM 2 Base 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.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
GPT-NeoX Instruct EleutherAI 16384 $1.52 62.6
Nemotron Nano Base NVIDIA 8192 $1.85 65.0
GLM-4.5 8B Zhipu AI 32768 $1.46 61.3
ERNIE 4.0 Nano Baidu 32768 $4.68 62.1
StableLM 2 Base Stability AI 8192 $1.49 61.9
Auto Mini OpenRouter 4096 $4.24 61.6
GPT-NeoX EleutherAI 16384 $1.57 61.7

Other benchmarks for StableLM 2 Base

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
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
IFEval 70.8 444 26th
TruthfulQA 66.9 432 28th
HellaSwag 74.2 453 25th
MMMU 57.4 463 23th
Arena Elo 1288.1 433 28th

FAQ

What score does StableLM 2 Base get on LiveCodeBench?

StableLM 2 Base scores 53.3 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.

How does StableLM 2 Base rank on LiveCodeBench?

It ranks #416 of 600 models, in the 31st percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.

Is StableLM 2 Base 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 StableLM 2 Base cost?

StableLM 2 Base costs $1.49 per million input tokens and $5.44 per million output tokens.

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