Benchmark Almanac

InfiniteBench/En.MC

Llama 3.1-405B 83.4% leads since July 2024
Claude 2 62.9% leads
Llama 3.1-405B 83.4% leads since July 2024
Dropped

Models answer 229 multiple choice questions about long fake books with altered entity names, averaging about 184K tokens. Scoring is accuracy.

This is one subtask of InfiniteBench, which has 12 tasks in English and Chinese.

Released
November 2023
Kind
Reasoning over long documents
Level
Everyday
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Multiple choice
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
Llama 3.1-405B #162 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
July 2024, dropped before it saturated
Last model added
November 2024
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026

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)
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Models scored in lab cards
1
Launch post lists it, from 1 lab
3
System cards report it, from 1 lab

Llama 3.1-405B leads with 83.4% among models released by July 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.

Claude 2 leads with 62.9% across all independent runs

Best score per model across the official leaderboard, Epoch AI’s own runs and any board Epoch AI copied. Each bar and row names its source.

Llama 3.1-405B leads with 83.4%, claims included

Best score per model from every source, including labs’ own numbers and claims Epoch AI collected from reports and papers. Labs pick their own settings, so a claim can beat an independent run of the same model.

The newest model with a score here came out in July 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 83.4%
  2. 2 Llama 3.1-70B 78.2%
  3. 3 Llama 3.1-8B 65.1%

Source: Labs’ model cards

Source: Official InfiniteBench/En.MC leaderboard

Sources: Labs’ model cards and official InfiniteBench/En.MC leaderboard

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Llama 3.1-405B 83.4% Jul 2024 Lab model card
2 Llama 3.1-70B 78.2% Nov 2024 Lab model card
3 Llama 3.1-8B 65.1% Nov 2024 Lab model card
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Claude 2 62.9% En.MC Jul 2023 Official leaderboard
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Llama 3.1-405B 83.4% Jul 2024 Lab model card
2 Llama 3.1-70B 78.2% Nov 2024 Lab model card
3 Llama 3.1-8B 65.1% Nov 2024 Lab model card
4 Claude 2 62.9% En.MC Jul 2023 Official leaderboard

The benchmark's own leaderboard has 7 entries, 1 of them models we track. Switch the scores above to rank them together.

Number one over time Number one over time 2 models have held number one with claims included since its release in November 2023

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

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Lab claims Not tested since Nov 2024

Source: Labs’ model cards

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 Near the ceiling (85%) Llama 3.1-405B Claude 2 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 2025 Near the ceiling (85%) Llama 3.1-405B Claude 2

Sources: Official InfiniteBench/En.MC leaderboard and labs’ model cards

No launch post has listed it since July 2024

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.

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DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
Jul 23, 2024 Llama 3.1-405B 83.4 InfiniteBench/En.MC

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
Nov 23, 2024 Llama 3.1-8B technical report 65.1 InfiniteBench/En.MC, accuracy, post-trained (Table 2, Table 21) Capabilities
Nov 23, 2024 Llama 3.1-70B technical report 78.2 InfiniteBench/En.MC, accuracy, post-trained (Table 2, Table 21) Capabilities
Nov 23, 2024 Llama 3.1-405B technical report 83.4 InfiniteBench/En.MC, accuracy, post-trained (Table 2, Table 21) Capabilities

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  • 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. Gemini 3.7 Flash 89%
  • 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%