Benchmark Almanac

InfiniteBench/En.QA

Llama 3.1-70B 36.7 leads since Nov 2024 Only in system cards

Models answer free-form questions about novels longer than 100K tokens. Scored by F1 against reference answers.

The multiple-choice task on the same novels is infinitebench-en-mc.

In the authors’ words

Processing and reasoning over long contexts is crucial for many practical applications of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as document comprehension and agent construction. Despite recent strides in making LLMs process contexts with more than 100K tokens, there is currently a lack of a standardized benchmark to evaluate this long-context capability. Existing public benchmarks typically focus on contexts around 10K tokens, limiting the assessment and comparison of LLMs in processing longer contexts. In this paper, we propose ∞Bench, the first LLM benchmark featuring an average data length surpassing 100K tokens. ∞Bench comprises synthetic and realistic tasks spanning diverse domains, presented in both English and Chinese. The tasks in ∞Bench are designed to require well understanding of long dependencies in contexts, and make simply retrieving a limited number of passages from contexts not sufficient for these tasks. In our experiments, based on ∞Bench, we evaluate the state-of-the-art proprietary and open-source LLMs tailored for processing long contexts. The results indicate that existing long context LLMs still require significant advancements to effectively process 100K+ context. We further present three intriguing analyses regarding the behavior of LLMs processing long context.

Abstract of ∞Bench: Extending Long Context Evaluation Beyond 100K Tokens (arXiv:2402.13718, CC0)
Made by OpenBMB (Zhang et al.) Released Feb 2024 Reasoning over long documents 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
Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
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Models scored in lab cards
3
System cards report it, from 1 lab

Llama 3.1-70B leads with 36.7 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 3.1-70B 36.7
  2. 2 Llama 3.1-405B 30.5
  3. 3 Llama 3.1-8B 27.1
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Llama 3.1-70B 36.7 Nov 2024 Model card
2 Llama 3.1-405B 30.5 Nov 2024 Model card
3 Llama 3.1-8B 27.1 Nov 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
27.5 30.0 32.5 35.0 37.5 2025 27.5 30.0 32.5 35.0 37.5 2025

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.

3 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 27.1 InfiniteBench/En.QA, F1, post-trained (Table 21) Capabilities
23 Nov 2024 Llama 3.1-70B technical report 36.7 InfiniteBench/En.QA, F1, post-trained (Table 21) Capabilities
23 Nov 2024 Llama 3.1-405B technical report 30.5 InfiniteBench/En.QA, F1, post-trained (Table 21) Capabilities

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  • LongBench v2 In use 503 multiple-choice questions over 8K-2M-word contexts (QA, dialogue, code repos, structured data). Accuracy. Beam 1.0 66.9%
  • GraphWalks In use A graph is given as an edge list in long context. The model answers BFS or parent queries, scored by F1. Claude Fable 5 100%
  • OpenAI MRCR v2 In use Models read a long synthetic chat that hides 2, 4 or 8 identical writing requests and must reproduce the response to the i-th one. Scored by mean string match ratio per context bin. K-EXAONE 2.0 94.4%
  • CL-bench In use Model must learn new knowledge from a supplied long context (rules, procedures, data) and solve tasks. Strict LLM-verified rubrics. GPT-5.4 27.9%
  • AA-LCR 1.1 In use Models answer 100 questions that need reasoning across sets of real documents of about 100K tokens. An LLM equality checker with a fixed system prompt compares each answer with the key. Step 5 Preview 88.3%