Benchmark Almanac

LiveCodeBench v5

Nemotron 3 Super 81.2% leads since Mar 2026 Fading

Competitive programming problems collected after model cutoffs from LeetCode, AtCoder, Codeforces. Scored pass@1 on hidden tests.

Problems released from May 2023 to January 2025, 880 in all.

In the authors’ words

Large Language Models (LLMs) applied to code-related applications have emerged as a prominent field, attracting significant interest from both academia and industry. However, as new and improved LLMs are developed, existing evaluation benchmarks (e.g., HumanEval, MBPP) are no longer sufficient for assessing their capabilities. In this work, we propose LiveCodeBench, a comprehensive and contamination-free evaluation of LLMs for code, which continuously collects new problems over time from contests across three competition platforms, namely LeetCode, AtCoder, and CodeForces. Notably, our benchmark also focuses on a broader range of code related capabilities, such as self-repair, code execution, and test output prediction, beyond just code generation. Currently, LiveCodeBench hosts four hundred high-quality coding problems that were published between May 2023 and May 2024. We have evaluated 18 base LLMs and 34 instruction-tuned LLMs on LiveCodeBench. We present empirical findings on contamination, holistic performance comparisons, potential overfitting in existing benchmarks as well as individual model comparisons. We will release all prompts and model completions for further community analysis, along with a general toolkit for adding new scenarios and model

Abstract of LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code (arXiv:2403.07974, CC0)
Made by UC Berkeley / MIT / Cornell Released Jan 2025 Competitive programming All tasks public Last in a launch post Mar 2026 , dropped for a newer version Last model added Apr 2026 Scores refreshed 2 Nov 2026
Level
Competition The strongest students, in olympiad-style contests
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.
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Models scored in lab cards
33
Launch posts list it, from 13 labs
29
System cards report it, from 12 labs

Nemotron 3 Super leads with 81.2% among models released by Apr 2026

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 Apr 2026, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Nemotron 3 Super 81.2%
  2. 2 Magistral Medium 1.2 75%
  3. 3 Nova 2.0 Pro Preview 74.6%
  4. 4 Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5 73.6%
  5. 5 GLM-4.5 72.9%
  6. 6 EXAONE 4.0 32B 72.6%
  7. 7 Gemini 2.5 Flash Sep 2025 71.7%
  8. 8 Nova 2 Lite 71%
  9. 9 Magistral Small 1.2 70.9%
  10. 10 Qwen3-235B-A22B 70.7%
  11. 11 GLM-4.5-Air 70.7%
  12. 12 Gemini 2.5 Pro Mar 2025 70.4%
  13. 13 Code World Model (CWM) 68.6%
  14. 14 INTELLECT-2 67.8%
  15. 15 Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 66.3%
  16. 16 Qwen3-32B 65.7%
  17. 17 Seed-Thinking-v1.5 64.9%
  18. 18 Gemini 2.5 Flash Jun 2025 63.9%
  19. 19 Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 63.5%
  20. 20 Qwen3-14B 63.5%
  21. 21 Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B 63.2%
  22. 22 Qwen3-30B-A3B 62.6%
  23. 23 Reka Flash 3 62%
  24. 24 Reka Flash 3.1 60.5%
  25. 25 EXAONE Deep 32B 59.5%
  26. 26 Magistral Medium 1.0 59.4%
  27. 27 Magistral Medium 1.1 59.4%
  28. 28 Magistral Small 1.1 59.2%
  29. 29 GLM-Z1-32B-0414 59.1%
  30. 30 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Sep 2025 58.4%
  31. 31 MiMo-7B-RL 57.8%
  32. 32 Qwen3-8B 57.5%
  33. 33 Magistral Small 1.0 55.8%
  34. 34 Qwen3-4B 54.2%
  35. 35 Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1 45.5%
  36. 36 Gemini 2.0 Pro 36%
  37. 37 Gemini 2.0 Flash Feb 2025 34.5%
  38. 38 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Jun 2025 34.3%
  39. 39 Qwen3-1.7B 33.2%
  40. 40 Llama 4 Scout 32.8%
  41. 41 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite 28.9%
  42. 42 Cohere Command A 26.9%
  43. 43 Gemma 3n E4B 25.7%
  44. 44 LFM2-8B-A1B 21.4%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Nemotron 3 Super 81.2% Mar 2026 Model card
2 Magistral Medium 1.2 75% Sep 2025 Model card
3 Nova 2.0 Pro Preview 74.6% Dec 2025 Model card
4 Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5 73.6% Jul 2025 Model card
5 GLM-4.5 72.9% Aug 2025 Model card
6 EXAONE 4.0 32B 72.6% Jul 2025 Model card
7 Gemini 2.5 Flash Sep 2025 71.7% Sep 2025 Model card
8 Nova 2 Lite 71% Dec 2025 Model card
9 Magistral Small 1.2 70.9% Sep 2025 Model card
10 Qwen3-235B-A22B 70.7% Apr 2025 Model card
11 GLM-4.5-Air 70.7% Aug 2025 Model card
12 Gemini 2.5 Pro Mar 2025 70.4% Mar 2025 Model card
13 Code World Model (CWM) 68.6% Sep 2025 Model card
14 INTELLECT-2 67.8% May 2025 Model card
15 Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 66.3% Apr 2025 Model card
16 Qwen3-32B 65.7% May 2025 Model card
17 Seed-Thinking-v1.5 64.9% Apr 2025 Model card
18 Gemini 2.5 Flash Jun 2025 63.9% Jun 2025 Model card
19 Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 63.5% Apr 2025 Model card
20 Qwen3-14B 63.5% May 2025 Model card
21 Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B 63.2% Apr 2026 Model card
22 Qwen3-30B-A3B 62.6% May 2025 Model card
23 Reka Flash 3 62% Mar 2025 Model card
24 Reka Flash 3.1 60.5% May 2025 Model card
25 EXAONE Deep 32B 59.5% Mar 2025 Model card
26 Magistral Medium 1.0 59.4% Jun 2025 Model card
27 Magistral Medium 1.1 59.4% Jul 2025 Model card
28 Magistral Small 1.1 59.2% Jul 2025 Model card
29 GLM-Z1-32B-0414 59.1% Apr 2025 Model card
30 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Sep 2025 58.4% Sep 2025 Model card
31 MiMo-7B-RL 57.8% Apr 2025 Model card
32 Qwen3-8B 57.5% May 2025 Model card
33 Magistral Small 1.0 55.8% Jun 2025 Model card
34 Qwen3-4B 54.2% May 2025 Model card
35 Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1 45.5% May 2025 Model card
36 Gemini 2.0 Pro 36% Feb 2025 Model card
37 Gemini 2.0 Flash Feb 2025 34.5% Feb 2025 Model card
38 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Jun 2025 34.3% Jun 2025 Model card
39 Qwen3-1.7B 33.2% May 2025 Model card
40 Llama 4 Scout 32.8% Apr 2025 Model card
41 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite 28.9% Feb 2025 Model card
42 Cohere Command A 26.9% Apr 2025 Model card
43 Gemma 3n E4B 25.7% Jun 2025 Model card
44 LFM2-8B-A1B 21.4% Oct 2025 Model card

The benchmark's own leaderboard has 22 entries, 21 of them models we track. We plot every source in the charts below.

More effort adds a median 14 points

Models the leaderboard ran at two or more effort levels. We don’t have enough cost data here to say what the extra effort costs.

Lowest effort to highest, light to dark
o4-mini
low medium high
81.4%
o3-mini
low medium high
69.3%
Claude Opus 4
thinking
59.8%
Claude Sonnet 4
thinking
57.9%
ModelEffortHarnessScoreCost per taskOutput tokens
o4-mini high 81.4%
o3 high 77.4%
o4-mini medium 75.2%
DeepSeek-R1 May 2025 74.8%
Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 74%
Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025 73.7%
EXAONE 4.0 32B 71.7%
OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B 71.5%
Qwen3-235B-A22B 70%
o3-mini high 69.3%
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B 69%
Grok-3 mini high 68.4%
o4-mini low 67.2%
o3-mini medium 65.6%
Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025 62.8%
Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 62.2%
Claude Opus 4 thinking 59.8%
o3-mini low 59.4%
Claude Sonnet 4 thinking 57.9%
Claude Opus 4 49.8%
Claude Sonnet 4 49.8%
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 36.5%
DeepSeek-V3 31.7%
GPT-4o Aug 2024 29.5%
GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 28.6%
GPT-4o mini 27.7%
Claude 3 Haiku 18.5%

3 models have held number one since its release in Jan 2025

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release. We draw one row each for the benchmark’s own leaderboard and what labs claim in their cards.

Anthropic OpenAI Google DeepMind Reka Qwen LG AI Research NVIDIA Mistral AI
Own leaderboard Replaced by 6, Jul 2025
o4-mini 81.4%
Lab claims Not tested since Apr 2026

Scores over time

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

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) o4-mini Gemini 2.5 Pro Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) GPT-4o Claude 3 Haiku 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) o4-mini Gemini 2.5 Pro

Labs headline it less often now, last in Mar 2026

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Google DeepMind
Reka
LG AI Research
Meta
NVIDIA
ByteDance Seed
Z.ai
Qwen
Xiaomi Corp
Prime Intellect
Mistral AI
Liquid AI
Amazon
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
11 Mar 2026 Nemotron 3 Super 81.2 LiveCodeBench (v5 2024-07↔2024-12)
2 Dec 2025 Nova 2 Lite 71 LiveCodeBench Code Generation (v5, 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 subset)
2 Dec 2025 Nova 2.0 Pro Preview 74.6 LiveCodeBench Code Generation (v5, 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 subset)
7 Oct 2025 LFM2-8B-A1B 21.4 LCB v5
25 Sep 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 58.4 LiveCodeBench v5 (UI: 1/1/2025-5/1/2025), Thinking
25 Sep 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash 71.7 LiveCodeBench v5 single attempt, model card
24 Sep 2025 Code World Model (CWM) 68.6 LCBv5
17 Sep 2025 Magistral Small 1.2 70.9 Livecodebench (v5)
17 Sep 2025 Magistral Medium 1.2 75 Livecodebench (v5)
25 Jul 2025 Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5 73.6 LiveCodeBench 24.10-25.02
24 Jul 2025 Magistral Small 1.1 59.2 Livecodebench (v5)
24 Jul 2025 Magistral Medium 1.1 59.4 Livecodebench (v5)
15 Jul 2025 EXAONE 4.0 32B 72.6 LiveCodeBench v5 (reasoning)
26 Jun 2025 Gemma 3n E4B 25.7 LiveCodeBench v5 pass@1 (IT)
17 Jun 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash 63.9 LiveCodeBench v5 single attempt
17 Jun 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 34.3 LiveCodeBench v5 (UI: 1/1/2025-5/1/2025), Thinking
10 Jun 2025 Magistral Small 1.0 55.8 Livecodebench (v5)
10 Jun 2025 Magistral Medium 1.0 59.4 LiveCodeBench (v5)
28 May 2025 Reka Flash 3.1 60.5 LCB_v5 (24.10-25.2)
11 May 2025 INTELLECT-2 67.8 LiveCodeBench (v5)
29 Apr 2025 MiMo-7B-RL 57.8 LiveCodeBench v5 (Pass@1, 20240801-20250201)
29 Apr 2025 Qwen3-235B-A22B 70.7 LiveCodeBench v5
17 Apr 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash 63.5 LiveCodeBench v5 single attempt (10/1/2024-2/1/2025)
14 Apr 2025 GLM-Z1-32B-0414 59.1 LCB (2408-2501)
10 Apr 2025 Seed-Thinking-v1.5 64.9 LiveCodeBench v5
7 Apr 2025 Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 66.3 LiveCodeBench (20240801-20250201) (reasoning on)
5 Apr 2025 Llama 4 Scout 32.8 LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025), pass@1
25 Mar 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro 70.4 LiveCodeBench v5, single attempt (pass@1)
18 Mar 2025 EXAONE Deep 32B 59.5 Live Code Bench (pass@1), 24.08-25.02
10 Mar 2025 Reka Flash 3 62 LiveCodeBench v5
5 Feb 2025 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite 28.9 LiveCodeBench (v5) (UI 10/01/2024-02/01/2025)
5 Feb 2025 Gemini 2.0 Flash 34.5 LiveCodeBench (v5) (UI 10/01/2024-02/01/2025)
5 Feb 2025 Gemini 2.0 Pro 36 LiveCodeBench (v5) (UI 10/01/2024-02/01/2025)

29 system cards report it, from 12 labs

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
27 Apr 2026 Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B technical report 63.2 LiveCodeBench v5 (07/24 to 05/25), 1 run (Table 10 and Section 4.4) Capabilities
11 Mar 2026 Nemotron 3 Super technical report 81.2 LiveCodeBench (v5 2024-07 to 2024-12) (Table 5) Capabilities
2 Dec 2025 Nova 2 Lite technical report 71 LiveCodeBench Code Generation, v5 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 subset, high effort (Table 4). No thinking 35.0, low 47.0, medium 66.0 (Figure 2, printed values) Capabilities
2 Dec 2025 Nova 2.0 Pro Preview technical report 74.6 LiveCodeBench Code Generation, v5 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 subset (Table 4) Capabilities
30 Sep 2025 Code World Model (CWM) technical report 68.6 LCBv5, 01.10.2024-01.02.2025, pass@1 (Table 12) Capabilities
26 Sep 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash model card 71.7 LiveCodeBench v5, single attempt (pass@1), 10/1/2024-2/1/2025 (Table, p.4) Capabilities
8 Aug 2025 GLM-4.5 technical report 72.9 LCB, LiveCodeBench problems 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 (Table 4) Capabilities
8 Aug 2025 GLM-4.5-Air technical report 70.7 LCB, LiveCodeBench problems 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 (Table 4) Capabilities
15 Jul 2025 EXAONE 4.0 32B technical report 72.6 LiveCodeBench v5, n=4 (Table 3, Reasoning). Non-reasoning 43.3 (Table 4) Capabilities
12 Jun 2025 Magistral Small 1.0 technical report 55.8 LiveCodeBench (v5), SFT + RL (Magistral Small) column (Table 3) Capabilities
12 Jun 2025 Magistral Medium 1.0 technical report 59.4 LiveCodeBench (v5), averaged over 16 runs (Table 2) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-8B technical report 57.5 LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 22.8 (Table 18) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-4B technical report 54.2 LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 21.3 (Table 18) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-32B technical report 65.7 LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 13). Non-thinking 31.3 (Table 14) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-30B-A3B technical report 62.6 LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 29.8 (Table 16) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-235B-A22B technical report 70.7 LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 11). Non-thinking 35.3 (Table 12) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-14B technical report 63.5 LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 29.0 (Table 16) Capabilities
14 May 2025 Qwen3-1.7B technical report 33.2 LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 19). Non-thinking 11.6 (Table 20) Capabilities
12 May 2025 MiMo-7B-RL technical report 57.8 LiveCodeBench v5 (Pass@1), 20240801-20250201 (Table 4, Table 5, Table 6) Capabilities
12 May 2025 INTELLECT-2 technical report 67.8 LiveCodeBench (v5), evalchemy defaults, target length 10,000 tokens (Table 1) Capabilities
2 May 2025 Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1 technical report 45.5 LiveCodeBench (2408 to 2502), reasoning on, reasoning off 29.7 (Table 4) Capabilities
2 May 2025 Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 technical report 66.3 LiveCodeBench (2408 to 2502), reasoning on, reasoning off 29.0. LiveCodeBench (2410 to 2502) 68.1 (Table 5) Capabilities
29 Apr 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash model card 63.5 LiveCodeBench v5, single attempt (pass@1), 10/1/2024-2/1/2025 (Table, p.4) Capabilities
28 Apr 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro model card 70.4 LiveCodeBench V5, single attempt pass@1, 10/1/2024-2/1/2025 (Table, p.4, column Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental 03-25) Capabilities
15 Apr 2025 Gemini 2.0 Flash model card 34.5 LiveCodeBench (v5), 10/01/2024-02/01/2025 (Table, p.3, column Gemini 2.0 Flash (GA)) Capabilities
10 Apr 2025 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite model card 28.9 LiveCodeBench (v5), UI 10/01/2024-02/01/2025 (Table, p.3) Capabilities
10 Apr 2025 Seed-Thinking-v1.5 technical report 64.9 LiveCodeBench v5 (Table 2) Capabilities
1 Apr 2025 Cohere Command A technical report 26.9 LiveCodeBench Version 5 (10/24 to 2/25) pass@1 (Table 12). Command A Agentic with execution feedback 32.9 Capabilities
16 Mar 2025 EXAONE Deep 32B technical report 59.5 LiveCodeBench (24.08 to 25.02), pass@1 with k=6 (Table 3) Capabilities

Versions

We switch the top row to each new version when it comes out. Open it for one row per version. An old version stays in play while people still test it, so whoever first takes it past 85% gets credit for closing it out.

DeepSeek Qwen xAI MiniMax Moonshot AI Ai2 Anthropic OpenAI Google DeepMind Ant Group
LiveCodeBench v6 Passed 85% in Aug 2025, by Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
LiveCodeBench Passed 85% in Dec 2025, by DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
LiveCodeBench v5 Not tested since Apr 2026
o4-mini 81.4%
LiveCodeBench v6 Passed 85% in Aug 2025, by Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

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