HELM Lite
A lightweight HELM board that runs models with in-context learning on ten scenarios. They include NarrativeQA, NaturalQuestions, OpenbookQA, MMLU, GSM8K, MATH, LegalBench, MedQA and WMT 2014.
14 releases from v1.0.0 (2023-12-19) to v1.13.0 (2025-01-10). HELM Capabilities followed in 2025-03.
- Level
- University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
- Scored
- Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
- Answers
- Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
GPT-4o leads with 93.8 among models released by Mar 2025
Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on 2 Nov 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders.
The newest model with a score here came out in Mar 2025, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- and 16 more
- 93.8 GPT-4o
- 92.8 GPT-4o
- 90.8
DeepSeek-V3
- 88.5 Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- 88.5
Amazon Nova Pro
- 86.7 GPT-4
- 86.4 GPT-4 Turbo
- 85.4
Llama 3.1-405B
- 84.6 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024)
- 84.2
Gemini 1.5 Pro
- 81.9
Llama 3.2 90B
- 81.3
Gemini 2.0 Flash
- 81.2
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
- 80.8
Llama 3.1-70B
- 80.8 Palmyra X4
- 79.3
Llama 3-70B
- 77.0
Qwen2-72B
- 74.5
Qwen2.5-72B
- 74.4
Mistral Large 2
- 73.9
Gemini 1.5 Pro
- 70.8
Amazon Nova Lite
- 70.5
Mixtral 8x22B
- 70.1 GPT-4o mini
- 69.8 gpt-4-1106-preview
- 68.3 Claude 3 Opus
- 67.9 palmyra-x-v3
- 67.5
Gemma 2 27B
- 66.7
Gemini 1.5 Flash
- 64.4 text-unicorn@001
- 63.7 Jamba 1.5 Large
- 60.8
Qwen1.5-72B
- 60.2 solar-pro-241126
- 58.9 palmyra-x-v2
- 57.4
Gemini 1.5 Flash
- 57.0
Yi-34B
- 56.2
Gemma 2 9B
- 55.0
Qwen1.5-110B
- 54.6
Qwen1.5-32B
- 53.1 Claude 3.5 Haiku
- 52.6 text-bison@001
- 52.4
Amazon Nova Micro
- 51.8 Claude 1.3
- 51.0
Mixtral 8x7B
- 50.9
phi-3-medium 14B
- 48.9 Claude 2
- 48.8
DeepSeek LLM 67B
- 48.8
Qwen2.5-7B
- 48.2
Llama 2-70B
- 47.3
phi-3-small 7.4B
- 47.1
Yi-Large
- 44.0
Command R+
- 43.9 text-davinci-003
- 43.7 Claude 2.1
- 42.5
Qwen1.5-14B
- 42.2
Gemini 1.0 Pro
- 41.4 Jamba 1.5 Mini
- 39.9 Claude Instant
- 38.7
Llama 3-8B
- 37.6 Claude 3 Sonnet
- 35.8 GPT-3.5 Turbo
- 34.5
LLaMA-65B
- 33.8
Snowflake Arctic Instruct
- 33.6
Gemma 7B
- 33.6 text-davinci-002
- 33.3 open-mistral-nemo-2407
- 32.8 mistral-large-2402
- 32.7 command
- 32.5
Llama 3.2 11B
- 30.3
Llama 3.1-8B
- 29.9
Command R (03-2024)
- 29.2
Mistral 7B v0.1
- 28.9
DBRX
- 28.8 mistral-small-2402
- 28.6 jamba-instruct
- 27.5
Qwen1.5-7B
- 26.8 mistral-medium-2312
- 26.3 Claude 3 Haiku
- 25.4
Yi 6B
- 23.3
Llama 2-13B
- 21.7
Falcon-40B
- 21.4 j2-jumbo
- 19.6
Mistral 7B v0.3
- 17.2 j2-grande
- 16.9
Phi-2
- 15.2
Llama 2-7B
- 14.5 luminous-supreme
- 10.4 command-light
- 7.84 luminous-extended
- 6.45
Falcon-7B
- 5.22 olmo-7b
- 4.11 luminous-base
- 1 GPT-4o May 2024 93.8
- 2 GPT-4o Aug 2024 92.8
- 3
DeepSeek-V3 Mar 2025 90.8
- 4 Claude 3.5 Sonnet 88.5
- 5
Amazon Nova Pro 88.5
- 6 GPT-4 Jun 2023 86.7
- 7 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 86.4
- 8
Llama 3.1-405B 85.4
- 9 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 84.6
- 10
Gemini 1.5 Pro Sep 2024 84.2
- 11
Llama 3.2 90B 81.9
- 12
Gemini 2.0 Flash Feb 2025 81.3
- 13
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct 81.2
- 14
Llama 3.1-70B 80.8
- 15 Palmyra X4 80.8
- 16
Llama 3-70B 79.3
- 17
Qwen2-72B 77.0
- 18
Qwen2.5-72B 74.5
- 19
Mistral Large 2 Jul 2024 74.4
- 20
Gemini 1.5 Pro May 2024 73.9
- 21
Amazon Nova Lite 70.8
- 22
Mixtral 8x22B 70.5
- 23 GPT-4o mini 70.1
- 24 gpt-4-1106-preview 69.8
- 25 Claude 3 Opus 68.3
- 26 palmyra-x-v3 67.9
- 27
Gemma 2 27B 67.5
- 28
Gemini 1.5 Flash May 2024 66.7
- 29 text-unicorn@001 64.4
- 30 Jamba 1.5 Large 63.7
- 31
Qwen1.5-72B 60.8
- 32 solar-pro-241126 60.2
- 33 palmyra-x-v2 58.9
- 34
Gemini 1.5 Flash Sep 2024 57.4
- 35
Yi-34B 57.0
- 36
Gemma 2 9B 56.2
- 37
Qwen1.5-110B 55.0
- 38
Qwen1.5-32B 54.6
- 39 Claude 3.5 Haiku 53.1
- 40 text-bison@001 52.6
- 41
Amazon Nova Micro 52.4
- 42 Claude 1.3 51.8
- 43
Mixtral 8x7B 51.0
- 44
phi-3-medium 14B 50.9
- 45 Claude 2 48.9
- 46
DeepSeek LLM 67B 48.8
- 47
Qwen2.5-7B 48.8
- 48
Llama 2-70B 48.2
- 49
phi-3-small 7.4B 47.3
- 50
Yi-Large 47.1
- 51
Command R+ 44.0
- 52 text-davinci-003 43.9
- 53 Claude 2.1 43.7
- 54
Qwen1.5-14B 42.5
- 55
Gemini 1.0 Pro 42.2
- 56 Jamba 1.5 Mini 41.4
- 57 Claude Instant 39.9
- 58
Llama 3-8B 38.7
- 59 Claude 3 Sonnet 37.6
- 60 GPT-3.5 Turbo Jun 2023 35.8
- 61
LLaMA-65B 34.5
- 62
Snowflake Arctic Instruct 33.8
- 63
Gemma 7B 33.6
- 64 text-davinci-002 33.6
- 65 open-mistral-nemo-2407 33.3
- 66 mistral-large-2402 32.8
- 67 command 32.7
- 68
Llama 3.2 11B 32.5
- 69
Llama 3.1-8B 30.3
- 70
Command R (03-2024) 29.9
- 71
Mistral 7B v0.1 29.2
- 72
DBRX 28.9
- 73 mistral-small-2402 28.8
- 74 jamba-instruct 28.6
- 75
Qwen1.5-7B 27.5
- 76 mistral-medium-2312 26.8
- 77 Claude 3 Haiku 26.3
- 78
Yi 6B 25.4
- 79
Llama 2-13B 23.3
- 80
Falcon-40B 21.7
- 81 j2-jumbo 21.4
- 82
Mistral 7B v0.3 19.6
- 83 j2-grande 17.2
- 84
Phi-2 16.9
- 85
Llama 2-7B 15.2
- 86 luminous-supreme 14.5
- 87 command-light 10.4
- 88 luminous-extended 7.84
- 89
Falcon-7B 6.45
- 90 olmo-7b 5.22
- 91 luminous-base 4.11
| # | Entry | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-4o May 2024 | 93.8 | May 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 2 | GPT-4o Aug 2024 | 92.8 | Aug 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 3 | | 90.8 | Mar 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 4 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | 88.5 | Jun 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 5 | | 88.5 | Dec 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 6 | GPT-4 Jun 2023 | 86.7 | Jun 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 7 | GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 | 86.4 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 8 | | 85.4 | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 9 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) | 84.6 | Oct 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 10 | | 84.2 | Sep 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 11 | | 81.9 | Sep 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 12 | | 81.3 | Feb 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 13 | | 81.2 | Dec 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 14 | | 80.8 | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 15 | Palmyra X4 | 80.8 | Oct 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 16 | | 79.3 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 17 | | 77.0 | Jun 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 18 | | 74.5 | Sep 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 19 | | 74.4 | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 20 | | 73.9 | May 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 21 | | 70.8 | Dec 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 22 | | 70.5 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 23 | GPT-4o mini | 70.1 | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 24 | gpt-4-1106-preview | 69.8 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 25 | Claude 3 Opus | 68.3 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 26 | palmyra-x-v3 | 67.9 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 27 | | 67.5 | Jun 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 28 | | 66.7 | May 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 29 | text-unicorn@001 | 64.4 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 30 | Jamba 1.5 Large | 63.7 | Aug 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 31 | | 60.8 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 32 | solar-pro-241126 | 60.2 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 33 | palmyra-x-v2 | 58.9 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 34 | | 57.4 | Aug 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 35 | | 57.0 | Nov 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 36 | | 56.2 | Jun 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 37 | | 55.0 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 38 | | 54.6 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 39 | Claude 3.5 Haiku | 53.1 | Oct 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 40 | text-bison@001 | 52.6 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 41 | | 52.4 | Dec 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 42 | Claude 1.3 | 51.8 | Apr 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 43 | | 51.0 | Dec 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 44 | | 50.9 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 45 | Claude 2 | 48.9 | Jul 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 46 | | 48.8 | Nov 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 47 | | 48.8 | Sep 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 48 | | 48.2 | Jul 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 49 | | 47.3 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 50 | | 47.1 | May 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 51 | | 44.0 | Aug 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 52 | text-davinci-003 | 43.9 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 53 | Claude 2.1 | 43.7 | Nov 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 54 | | 42.5 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 55 | | 42.2 | Dec 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 56 | Jamba 1.5 Mini | 41.4 | Aug 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 57 | Claude Instant | 39.9 | Aug 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 58 | | 38.7 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 59 | Claude 3 Sonnet | 37.6 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 60 | GPT-3.5 Turbo Jun 2023 | 35.8 | Jun 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 61 | | 34.5 | Feb 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 62 | | 33.8 | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 63 | | 33.6 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 64 | text-davinci-002 | 33.6 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 65 | open-mistral-nemo-2407 | 33.3 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 66 | mistral-large-2402 | 32.8 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 67 | command | 32.7 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 68 | | 32.5 | Sep 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 69 | | 30.3 | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 70 | | 29.9 | Mar 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 71 | | 29.2 | Sep 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 72 | | 28.9 | Mar 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 73 | mistral-small-2402 | 28.8 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 74 | jamba-instruct | 28.6 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 75 | | 27.5 | Feb 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 76 | mistral-medium-2312 | 26.8 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 77 | Claude 3 Haiku | 26.3 | Mar 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 78 | | 25.4 | Nov 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 79 | | 23.3 | Jul 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 80 | | 21.7 | Mar 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 81 | j2-jumbo | 21.4 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 82 | | 19.6 | Sep 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 83 | j2-grande | 17.2 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 84 | | 16.9 | Dec 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 85 | | 15.2 | Jul 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 86 | luminous-supreme | 14.5 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 87 | command-light | 10.4 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 88 | luminous-extended | 7.84 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 89 | | 6.45 | Apr 2023 | Official leaderboard | |
| 90 | olmo-7b | 5.22 | Official leaderboard | ||
| 91 | luminous-base | 4.11 | Official leaderboard |
2 models have held number one since its release in Dec 2023
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
No lab model card reports it yet
We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.
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