Benchmark Almanac

Gorilla APIBench

Llama 3.1-405B 35.3% leads since Jul 2024 Only in system cards

Models write calls to machine learning APIs from Hugging Face, TorchHub and TensorHub. Scored by AST match.

The same Gorilla team later built BFCL.

Made by UC Berkeley (Gorilla) Released May 2023 Function calling All tasks public Last in a system card Nov 2024 Last model added Nov 2024
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Code A program or patch run against tests.
3
Models scored in lab cards
6
System cards report it, from 1 lab

Llama 3.1-405B leads with 35.3% among models released by Jul 2024

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

The newest model with a score here came out in Jul 2024, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Llama 3.1-405B 35.3%
  2. 2 Llama 3.1-70B 29.7%
  3. 3 Llama 3.1-8B 8.20%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Llama 3.1-405B 35.3% Jul 2024 Model card
2 Llama 3.1-70B 29.7% Jul 2024 Model card
3 Llama 3.1-8B 8.20% Jul 2024 Model card

Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Meta
Lab claims Not tested since Nov 2024

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) Llama 3.1-405B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) Llama 3.1-405B

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

6 system cards report it, from 1 lab

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
23 Nov 2024 Llama 3.1-8B technical report 8.2 API-Bench (Gorilla), zero-shot function calling accuracy, post-trained (Table 22) Capabilities
23 Nov 2024 Llama 3.1-70B technical report 29.7 API-Bench (Gorilla), zero-shot function calling accuracy, post-trained (Table 22) Capabilities
23 Nov 2024 Llama 3.1-405B technical report 35.3 API-Bench (Gorilla), zero-shot function calling accuracy, post-trained (Table 22) Capabilities
23 Jul 2024 Llama 3.1-8B model card 8.2 Gorilla Benchmark API Bench, 0-shot, acc, instruction tuned (Instruction tuned models table) Capabilities
23 Jul 2024 Llama 3.1-70B model card 29.7 Gorilla Benchmark API Bench, 0-shot, acc, instruction tuned (Instruction tuned models table) Capabilities
23 Jul 2024 Llama 3.1-405B model card 35.3 Gorilla Benchmark API Bench, 0-shot, acc, instruction tuned (Instruction tuned models table) Capabilities

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