LiveCodeBench v5
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.
- Made by
- UC Berkeley / MIT / Cornell
- Released
- January 2025
- Kind
- Competitive programming
- Level
- Competition
- Scored
- Checked automatically
- Answers
- Code
- Tasks
- All public
- Strongest model tested
- o3 #83 on the capability index
- Last in a launch post
- March 2026, dropped for a newer version
- Last model added
- April 2026
- Scores refreshed
- November 12th, 2026
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
Nemotron 3 Super leads with 81.2% among models released by April 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.
o4-mini leads with 81.4% 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.
o4-mini leads with 81.4%, 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 April 2026, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- Claude Fable 5.2
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Gemini 4 Carbon
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- and 16 more
- 81.2
Nemotron 3 Super
- 75.0
Magistral Medium 1.2
- 74.6
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
- 73.6
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5
- 72.9 GLM-4.5
- 72.6
EXAONE 4.0 32B
- 71.7
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 71.0
Nova 2 Lite
- 70.9
Magistral Small 1.2
- 70.7
Qwen3-235B-A22B
- 70.7 GLM-4.5-Air
- 70.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 68.6
Code World Model (CWM)
- 67.8 INTELLECT-2
- 66.3
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1
- 65.9
DeepSeek-R1
- 65.7
Qwen3-32B
- 64.9
Seed-Thinking-v1.5
- 63.9
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 63.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 63.5
Qwen3-14B
- 63.2
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B
- 62.6
Qwen3-30B-A3B
- 62.0 Reka Flash 3
- 60.5 Reka Flash 3.1
- 59.5
EXAONE Deep 32B
- 59.4
Magistral Medium 1.0
- 59.4
Magistral Medium 1.1
- 59.2
Magistral Small 1.1
- 59.1 GLM-Z1-32B-0414
- 58.4
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
- 57.8 MiMo-7B-RL
- 57.5
Qwen3-8B
- 55.8
Magistral Small 1.0
- 54.2
Qwen3-4B
- 53.8
Phi-4-reasoning
- 53.1
Phi-4-Reasoning-plus
- 45.5
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1
- 36.0
Gemini 2.0 Pro
- 34.5
Gemini 2.0 Flash
- 34.3
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
- 33.2
Qwen3-1.7B
- 32.8
Llama 4 Scout
- 28.9
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
- 26.9
Cohere Command A
- 25.7
Gemma 3n E4B
- 21.4 LFM2-8B-A1B
- 1
Nemotron 3 Super 81.2%
- 2
Magistral Medium 1.2 75%
- 3
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview 74.6%
- 4
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5 73.6%
- 5 GLM-4.5 72.9%
- 6
EXAONE 4.0 32B 72.6%
- 7
Gemini 2.5 Flash Sep 2025 71.7%
- 8
Nova 2 Lite 71%
- 9
Magistral Small 1.2 70.9%
- 10
Qwen3-235B-A22B 70.7%
- 11 GLM-4.5-Air 70.7%
- 12
Gemini 2.5 Pro Mar 2025 70.4%
- 13
Code World Model (CWM) 68.6%
- 14 INTELLECT-2 67.8%
- 15
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 66.3%
- 16
DeepSeek-R1 65.9%
- 17
Qwen3-32B 65.7%
- 18
Seed-Thinking-v1.5 64.9%
- 19
Gemini 2.5 Flash Jun 2025 63.9%
- 20
Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 63.5%
- 21
Qwen3-14B 63.5%
- 22
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B 63.2%
- 23
Qwen3-30B-A3B 62.6%
- 24 Reka Flash 3 62%
- 25 Reka Flash 3.1 60.5%
- 26
EXAONE Deep 32B 59.5%
- 27
Magistral Medium 1.0 59.4%
- 28
Magistral Medium 1.1 59.4%
- 29
Magistral Small 1.1 59.2%
- 30 GLM-Z1-32B-0414 59.1%
- 31
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Sep 2025 58.4%
- 32 MiMo-7B-RL 57.8%
- 33
Qwen3-8B 57.5%
- 34
Magistral Small 1.0 55.8%
- 35
Qwen3-4B 54.2%
- 36
Phi-4-reasoning 53.8%
- 37
Phi-4-Reasoning-plus 53.1%
- 38
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1 45.5%
- 39
Gemini 2.0 Pro 36%
- 40
Gemini 2.0 Flash Feb 2025 34.5%
- 41
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Jun 2025 34.3%
- 42
Qwen3-1.7B 33.2%
- 43
Llama 4 Scout 32.8%
- 44
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite 28.9%
- 45
Cohere Command A 26.9%
- 46
Gemma 3n E4B 25.7%
- 47 LFM2-8B-A1B 21.4%
Source: Labs’ model cards
- 81.4 o4-mini
- 77.4 o3
- 74.8
DeepSeek-R1
- 74.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 73.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 71.7
EXAONE 4.0 32B
- 71.5
OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B
- 70.0
Qwen3-235B-A22B
- 69.3 o3-mini
- 69.0
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B
- 68.4 Grok-3 mini
- 62.8
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 62.2
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 59.8 Claude Opus 4
- 57.9 Claude Sonnet 4
- 36.5 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024)
- 31.7
DeepSeek-V3
- 29.5 GPT-4o
- 28.6 GPT-4 Turbo
- 27.7 GPT-4o mini
- 18.5 Claude 3 Haiku
- 1 o4-mini high 81.4%
- 2 o3 high 77.4%
- 3
DeepSeek-R1 May 2025 74.8%
- 4
Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 74%
- 5
Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025 73.7%
- 6
EXAONE 4.0 32B 71.7%
- 7
OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B 71.5%
- 8
Qwen3-235B-A22B 70%
- 9 o3-mini high 69.3%
- 10
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B 69%
- 11 Grok-3 mini high 68.4%
- 12
Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025 62.8%
- 13
Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 62.2%
- 14 Claude Opus 4 thinking 59.8%
- 15 Claude Sonnet 4 thinking 57.9%
- 16 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 36.5%
- 17
DeepSeek-V3 31.7%
- 18 GPT-4o Aug 2024 29.5%
- 19 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 28.6%
- 20 GPT-4o mini 27.7%
- 21 Claude 3 Haiku 18.5%
Source: Official LiveCodeBench v5 leaderboard
- 81.4 o4-mini
- 81.2
Nemotron 3 Super
- 77.4 o3
- 75.0
Magistral Medium 1.2
- 74.8
DeepSeek-R1
- 74.6
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
- 74.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 73.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 73.6
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5
- 72.9 GLM-4.5
- 72.6
EXAONE 4.0 32B
- 71.7
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 71.5
OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B
- 71.0
Nova 2 Lite
- 70.9
Magistral Small 1.2
- 70.7
Qwen3-235B-A22B
- 70.7 GLM-4.5-Air
- 70.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 69.3 o3-mini
- 69.0
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B
- 68.6
Code World Model (CWM)
- 68.4 Grok-3 mini
- 67.8 INTELLECT-2
- 66.3
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1
- 65.9
DeepSeek-R1
- 65.7
Qwen3-32B
- 64.9
Seed-Thinking-v1.5
- 63.9
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 63.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 63.5
Qwen3-14B
- 63.2
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B
- 62.8
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 62.6
Qwen3-30B-A3B
- 62.0 Reka Flash 3
- 60.5 Reka Flash 3.1
- 59.8 Claude Opus 4
- 59.5
EXAONE Deep 32B
- 59.4
Magistral Medium 1.0
- 59.4
Magistral Medium 1.1
- 59.2
Magistral Small 1.1
- 59.1 GLM-Z1-32B-0414
- 58.4
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
- 57.9 Claude Sonnet 4
- 57.8 MiMo-7B-RL
- 57.5
Qwen3-8B
- 55.8
Magistral Small 1.0
- 54.2
Qwen3-4B
- 53.8
Phi-4-reasoning
- 53.1
Phi-4-Reasoning-plus
- 45.5
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1
- 36.5 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024)
- 36.0
Gemini 2.0 Pro
- 34.5
Gemini 2.0 Flash
- 34.3
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
- 33.2
Qwen3-1.7B
- 32.8
Llama 4 Scout
- 31.7
DeepSeek-V3
- 29.5 GPT-4o
- 28.9
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
- 28.6 GPT-4 Turbo
- 27.7 GPT-4o mini
- 26.9
Cohere Command A
- 25.7
Gemma 3n E4B
- 21.4 LFM2-8B-A1B
- 18.5 Claude 3 Haiku
- 1 o4-mini high 81.4%
- 2
Nemotron 3 Super 81.2%
- 3 o3 high 77.4%
- 4
Magistral Medium 1.2 75%
- 5
DeepSeek-R1 May 2025 74.8%
- 6
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview 74.6%
- 7
Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 74%
- 8
Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025 73.7%
- 9
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5 73.6%
- 10 GLM-4.5 72.9%
- 11
EXAONE 4.0 32B 72.6%
- 12
Gemini 2.5 Flash Sep 2025 71.7%
- 13
OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B 71.5%
- 14
Nova 2 Lite 71%
- 15
Magistral Small 1.2 70.9%
- 16
Qwen3-235B-A22B 70.7%
- 17 GLM-4.5-Air 70.7%
- 18
Gemini 2.5 Pro Mar 2025 70.4%
- 19 o3-mini high 69.3%
- 20
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B 69%
- 21
Code World Model (CWM) 68.6%
- 22 Grok-3 mini high 68.4%
- 23 INTELLECT-2 67.8%
- 24
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 66.3%
- 25
DeepSeek-R1 65.9%
- 26
Qwen3-32B 65.7%
- 27
Seed-Thinking-v1.5 64.9%
- 28
Gemini 2.5 Flash Jun 2025 63.9%
- 29
Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 63.5%
- 30
Qwen3-14B 63.5%
- 31
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B 63.2%
- 32
Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025 62.8%
- 33
Qwen3-30B-A3B 62.6%
- 34 Reka Flash 3 62%
- 35 Reka Flash 3.1 60.5%
- 36 Claude Opus 4 thinking 59.8%
- 37
EXAONE Deep 32B 59.5%
- 38
Magistral Medium 1.0 59.4%
- 39
Magistral Medium 1.1 59.4%
- 40
Magistral Small 1.1 59.2%
- 41 GLM-Z1-32B-0414 59.1%
- 42
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Sep 2025 58.4%
- 43 Claude Sonnet 4 thinking 57.9%
- 44 MiMo-7B-RL 57.8%
- 45
Qwen3-8B 57.5%
- 46
Magistral Small 1.0 55.8%
- 47
Qwen3-4B 54.2%
- 48
Phi-4-reasoning 53.8%
- 49
Phi-4-Reasoning-plus 53.1%
- 50
Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1 45.5%
- 51 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 36.5%
- 52
Gemini 2.0 Pro 36%
- 53
Gemini 2.0 Flash Feb 2025 34.5%
- 54
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Jun 2025 34.3%
- 55
Qwen3-1.7B 33.2%
- 56
Llama 4 Scout 32.8%
- 57
DeepSeek-V3 31.7%
- 58 GPT-4o Aug 2024 29.5%
- 59
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite 28.9%
- 60 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 28.6%
- 61 GPT-4o mini 27.7%
- 62
Cohere Command A 26.9%
- 63
Gemma 3n E4B 25.7%
- 64 LFM2-8B-A1B 21.4%
- 65 Claude 3 Haiku 18.5%
Sources: Official LiveCodeBench v5 leaderboard and labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 81.2% | Mar 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | | 75% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 3 | | 74.6% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 4 | | 73.6% | Jul 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 5 | GLM-4.5 | 72.9% | Aug 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 6 | | 72.6% | Jul 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 7 | | 71.7% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 8 | | 71% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 9 | | 70.9% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 10 | | 70.7% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 11 | GLM-4.5-Air | 70.7% | Aug 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 12 | | 70.4% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 13 | | 68.6% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 14 | INTELLECT-2 | 67.8% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 15 | | 66.3% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 16 | | 65.9% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 17 | | 65.7% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 18 | | 64.9% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 19 | | 63.9% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 20 | | 63.5% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 21 | | 63.5% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 22 | | 63.2% | Apr 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 23 | | 62.6% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 24 | Reka Flash 3 | 62% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 25 | Reka Flash 3.1 | 60.5% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 26 | | 59.5% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 27 | | 59.4% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 28 | | 59.4% | Jul 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 29 | | 59.2% | Jul 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 30 | GLM-Z1-32B-0414 | 59.1% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 31 | | 58.4% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 32 | MiMo-7B-RL | 57.8% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 33 | | 57.5% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 34 | | 55.8% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 35 | | 54.2% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 36 | | 53.8% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 37 | | 53.1% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 38 | | 45.5% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 39 | | 36% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 40 | | 34.5% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 41 | | 34.3% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 42 | | 33.2% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 43 | | 32.8% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 44 | | 28.9% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 45 | | 26.9% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 46 | | 25.7% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 47 | LFM2-8B-A1B | 21.4% | Oct 2025 | Lab model card |
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | o4-mini | 81.4% | high | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 2 | o3 | 77.4% | high | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 3 | | 74.8% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 4 | | 74% | Jun 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 5 | | 73.7% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 6 | | 71.7% | Jul 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 7 | | 71.5% | Jul 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 8 | | 70% | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 9 | o3-mini | 69.3% | high | Jan 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 10 | | 69% | Jun 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 11 | Grok-3 mini | 68.4% | high | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 12 | | 62.8% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 13 | | 62.2% | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 14 | Claude Opus 4 | 59.8% | thinking | May 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 15 | Claude Sonnet 4 | 57.9% | thinking | May 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 16 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) | 36.5% | Oct 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 17 | | 31.7% | Dec 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 18 | GPT-4o Aug 2024 | 29.5% | Aug 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 19 | GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 | 28.6% | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 20 | GPT-4o mini | 27.7% | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 21 | Claude 3 Haiku | 18.5% | Mar 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | o4-mini | 81.4% | high | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 2 | | 81.2% | Mar 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 3 | o3 | 77.4% | high | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 4 | | 75% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 5 | | 74.8% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 6 | | 74.6% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 7 | | 74% | Jun 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 8 | | 73.7% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 9 | | 73.6% | Jul 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 10 | GLM-4.5 | 72.9% | Aug 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 11 | | 72.6% | Jul 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 12 | | 71.7% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 13 | | 71.5% | Jul 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 14 | | 71% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 15 | | 70.9% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 16 | | 70.7% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 17 | GLM-4.5-Air | 70.7% | Aug 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 18 | | 70.4% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 19 | o3-mini | 69.3% | high | Jan 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 20 | | 69% | Jun 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 21 | | 68.6% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 22 | Grok-3 mini | 68.4% | high | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 23 | INTELLECT-2 | 67.8% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 24 | | 66.3% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 25 | | 65.9% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 26 | | 65.7% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 27 | | 64.9% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 28 | | 63.9% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 29 | | 63.5% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 30 | | 63.5% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 31 | | 63.2% | Apr 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 32 | | 62.8% | May 2025 | Official leaderboard | |
| 33 | | 62.6% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 34 | Reka Flash 3 | 62% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 35 | Reka Flash 3.1 | 60.5% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 36 | Claude Opus 4 | 59.8% | thinking | May 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 37 | | 59.5% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 38 | | 59.4% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 39 | | 59.4% | Jul 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 40 | | 59.2% | Jul 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 41 | GLM-Z1-32B-0414 | 59.1% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 42 | | 58.4% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 43 | Claude Sonnet 4 | 57.9% | thinking | May 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 44 | MiMo-7B-RL | 57.8% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 45 | | 57.5% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 46 | | 55.8% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 47 | | 54.2% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 48 | | 53.8% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 49 | | 53.1% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 50 | | 45.5% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 51 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) | 36.5% | Oct 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 52 | | 36% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 53 | | 34.5% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 54 | | 34.3% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 55 | | 33.2% | May 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 56 | | 32.8% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 57 | | 31.7% | Dec 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 58 | GPT-4o Aug 2024 | 29.5% | Aug 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 59 | | 28.9% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 60 | GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 | 28.6% | Apr 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 61 | GPT-4o mini | 27.7% | Jul 2024 | Official leaderboard | |
| 62 | | 26.9% | Apr 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 63 | | 25.7% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 64 | LFM2-8B-A1B | 21.4% | Oct 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 65 | Claude 3 Haiku | 18.5% | Mar 2024 | Official leaderboard |
The benchmark's own leaderboard has 22 entries, 21 of them models we track. Switch the scores above to rank them together.
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.
Source: Official LiveCodeBench v5 leaderboard
| Model | Effort | Harness | Score | Cost per task | Output tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| o4-mini | high | 81.4% | |||
| o3 | high | 77.4% | |||
| o4-mini | medium | 75.2% | |||
| | 74.8% | ||||
| | 74% | ||||
| | 73.7% | ||||
| | 71.7% | ||||
| | 71.5% | ||||
| | 70% | ||||
| o3-mini | high | 69.3% | |||
| | 69% | ||||
| Grok-3 mini | high | 68.4% | |||
| o4-mini | low | 67.2% | |||
| o3-mini | medium | 65.6% | |||
| | 62.8% | ||||
| | 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% | ||||
| | 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% |
7 models have held number one in labs’ own numbers since its release in January 2025 3 models have held number one across all independent runs since its release in January 2025 5 models have held number one with claims included since its release in January 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.
Sources: Official LiveCodeBench v5 leaderboard and 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.
Sources: Official LiveCodeBench v5 leaderboard and labs’ model cards
Labs headline it less often now, last in March 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.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 2026 | 81.2 | LiveCodeBench (v5 2024-07↔2024-12) | |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 71 | LiveCodeBench Code Generation (v5, 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 subset) | |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 74.6 | LiveCodeBench Code Generation (v5, 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 subset) | |
| Oct 7, 2025 | LFM2-8B-A1B | 21.4 | LCB v5 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 58.4 | LiveCodeBench v5 (UI: 1/1/2025-5/1/2025), Thinking | |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 71.7 | LiveCodeBench v5 single attempt, model card | |
| Sep 24, 2025 | 68.6 | LCBv5 | |
| Sep 17, 2025 | 70.9 | Livecodebench (v5) | |
| Sep 17, 2025 | 75 | Livecodebench (v5) | |
| Jul 25, 2025 | 73.6 | LiveCodeBench 24.10-25.02 | |
| Jul 24, 2025 | 59.2 | Livecodebench (v5) | |
| Jul 24, 2025 | 59.4 | Livecodebench (v5) | |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 72.6 | LiveCodeBench v5 (reasoning) | |
| Jun 26, 2025 | 25.7 | LiveCodeBench v5 pass@1 (IT) | |
| Jun 17, 2025 | 63.9 | LiveCodeBench v5 single attempt | |
| Jun 17, 2025 | 34.3 | LiveCodeBench v5 (UI: 1/1/2025-5/1/2025), Thinking | |
| Jun 10, 2025 | 55.8 | Livecodebench (v5) | |
| Jun 10, 2025 | 59.4 | LiveCodeBench (v5) | |
| May 28, 2025 | Reka Flash 3.1 | 60.5 | LCB_v5 (24.10-25.2) |
| May 11, 2025 | INTELLECT-2 | 67.8 | LiveCodeBench (v5) |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 53.8 | LiveCodeBench (8/1/24-2/1/25) | |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 53.1 | LiveCodeBench (8/1/24–2/1/25) | |
| Apr 29, 2025 | MiMo-7B-RL | 57.8 | LiveCodeBench v5 (Pass@1, 20240801-20250201) |
| Apr 29, 2025 | 70.7 | LiveCodeBench v5 | |
| Apr 17, 2025 | 63.5 | LiveCodeBench v5 single attempt (10/1/2024-2/1/2025) | |
| Apr 14, 2025 | GLM-Z1-32B-0414 | 59.1 | LCB (2408-2501) |
| Apr 10, 2025 | 64.9 | LiveCodeBench v5 | |
| Apr 7, 2025 | 66.3 | LiveCodeBench (20240801-20250201) (reasoning on) | |
| Apr 5, 2025 | 32.8 | LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025), pass@1 | |
| Mar 25, 2025 | 70.4 | LiveCodeBench v5, single attempt (pass@1) | |
| Mar 18, 2025 | 59.5 | Live Code Bench (pass@1), 24.08-25.02 | |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Reka Flash 3 | 62 | LiveCodeBench v5 |
| Mar 6, 2025 | LiveCodeBench (24.08-25.02) | ||
| Feb 5, 2025 | 28.9 | LiveCodeBench (v5) (UI 10/01/2024-02/01/2025) | |
| Feb 5, 2025 | 34.5 | LiveCodeBench (v5) (UI 10/01/2024-02/01/2025) | |
| Feb 5, 2025 | 36 | LiveCodeBench (v5) (UI 10/01/2024-02/01/2025) |
32 system cards report it, from 14 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.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2026 | | 63.2 | LiveCodeBench v5 (07/24 to 05/25), 1 run (Table 10 and Section 4.4) | Capabilities |
| Mar 11, 2026 | | 81.2 | LiveCodeBench (v5 2024-07 to 2024-12) (Table 5) | Capabilities |
| Dec 2, 2025 | | 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 |
| Dec 2, 2025 | | 74.6 | LiveCodeBench Code Generation, v5 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 subset (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| Sep 30, 2025 | | 68.6 | LCBv5, 01.10.2024-01.02.2025, pass@1 (Table 12) | Capabilities |
| Sep 26, 2025 | | 71.7 | LiveCodeBench v5, single attempt (pass@1), 10/1/2024-2/1/2025 (Table, p.4) | Capabilities |
| Aug 8, 2025 | GLM-4.5 technical report | 72.9 | LCB, LiveCodeBench problems 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| Aug 8, 2025 | GLM-4.5-Air technical report | 70.7 | LCB, LiveCodeBench problems 2024-07-01 to 2025-01-01 (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| Jul 15, 2025 | | 72.6 | LiveCodeBench v5, n=4 (Table 3, Reasoning). Non-reasoning 43.3 (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| Jun 12, 2025 | | 55.8 | LiveCodeBench (v5), SFT + RL (Magistral Small) column (Table 3) | Capabilities |
| Jun 12, 2025 | | 59.4 | LiveCodeBench (v5), averaged over 16 runs (Table 2) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 57.5 | LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 22.8 (Table 18) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 54.2 | LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 17). Non-thinking 21.3 (Table 18) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 65.7 | LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 13). Non-thinking 31.3 (Table 14) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 62.6 | LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 29.8 (Table 16) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 70.7 | LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 11). Non-thinking 35.3 (Table 12) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 63.5 | LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 15). Non-thinking 29.0 (Table 16) | Capabilities |
| May 14, 2025 | | 33.2 | LiveCodeBench v5, thinking mode (Table 19). Non-thinking 11.6 (Table 20) | Capabilities |
| May 12, 2025 | MiMo-7B-RL technical report | 57.8 | LiveCodeBench v5 (Pass@1), 20240801-20250201 (Table 4, Table 5, Table 6) | Capabilities |
| May 12, 2025 | INTELLECT-2 technical report | 67.8 | LiveCodeBench (v5), evalchemy defaults, target length 10,000 tokens (Table 1) | Capabilities |
| May 2, 2025 | | 45.5 | LiveCodeBench (2408 to 2502), reasoning on, reasoning off 29.7 (Table 4) | Capabilities |
| May 2, 2025 | | 66.3 | LiveCodeBench (2408 to 2502), reasoning on, reasoning off 29.0. LiveCodeBench (2410 to 2502) 68.1 (Table 5) | Capabilities |
| Apr 30, 2025 | | 53.8 | LCB 8/24 - 1/25, pass@1 (Table 1) | Capabilities |
| Apr 30, 2025 | | 53.1 | LCB 8/24 - 1/25, pass@1 (Table 1) | Capabilities |
| Apr 29, 2025 | | 63.5 | LiveCodeBench v5, single attempt (pass@1), 10/1/2024-2/1/2025 (Table, p.4) | Capabilities |
| Apr 28, 2025 | | 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 |
| Apr 15, 2025 | | 34.5 | LiveCodeBench (v5), 10/01/2024-02/01/2025 (Table, p.3, column Gemini 2.0 Flash (GA)) | Capabilities |
| Apr 10, 2025 | | 28.9 | LiveCodeBench (v5), UI 10/01/2024-02/01/2025 (Table, p.3) | Capabilities |
| Apr 10, 2025 | | 64.9 | LiveCodeBench v5 (Table 2) | Capabilities |
| Apr 1, 2025 | | 26.9 | LiveCodeBench Version 5 (10/24 to 2/25) pass@1 (Table 12). Command A Agentic with execution feedback 32.9 | Capabilities |
| Mar 16, 2025 | | 59.5 | LiveCodeBench (24.08 to 25.02), pass@1 with k=6 (Table 3) | Capabilities |
| Jan 20, 2025 | | 65.9 | LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT), 2024-08 to 2025-01, DeepSeek-R1 (Table 8, same as final column of Table 3) | Capabilities |
The lab's number comes out ahead in 3 of 3 pairs that differ
Each score a lab reported for its own model, beside the same model's best score on the leaderboard. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every benchmark.
| Model | Lab says | Board says | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| | 63.5% LiveCodeBench v5 single attempt (10/1/2024-2/1/2025) | 62.2% Leaderboard | +1.3 pts |
| | 72.6% LiveCodeBench v5 (reasoning) | 71.7% Leaderboard | +0.9 pts |
| | 70.7% LiveCodeBench v5 | 70% Leaderboard | +0.7 pts |
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.
Source: Labs’ model cards
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