Benchmark Almanac

LiveCodeBench

DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5% leads since April 2026
o4-mini 91% leads since April 2025
DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5% leads since April 2026
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Competitive programming problems collected after model cutoffs from LeetCode, AtCoder, Codeforces. Scored pass@1 on hidden tests.

Rolling time windows (v5, v6) make cross-card comparison hard. Top models near 90%.

Made by
UC Berkeley / MIT / Cornell
Released
March 2024
Kind
Competitive programming
Level
Competition
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Code
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
Qwen3.7-Max #49 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
October 2026
Last model added
October 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

Abstract of LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code (arXiv:2403.07974, CC0)
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Models scored in lab cards
53
Launch posts list it, from 19 labs
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System cards report it, from 12 labs

DeepSeek-V4-Pro leads with 93.5%

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 91% 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.

DeepSeek-V4-Pro leads with 93.5%, 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.

  1. 1 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5%
  2. 2 Qwen3.7-Max 91.6%
  3. 3 Qwen3.7-Plus 89.6%
  4. 4 DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale 88.7%
  5. 5 Beam 1.0 88.3%
  6. 6 Olmo 3 32B Think 83.5%
  7. 7 DeepSeek-V3.2 83.3%
  8. 8 Olmo 3.1 32B Think 83.3%
  9. 9 MiniMax-M2 83%
  10. 10 MiniMax-M2.1 81%
  11. 11 LongCat-Flash-Thinking 79.4%
  12. 12 STEP3-VL-10B 75.8%
  13. 13 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus 74.9%
  14. 14 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 74.1%
  15. 15 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 71.1%
  16. 16 DeepSeek-R1 65.9%
  17. 17 Hunyuan-T1 64.9%
  18. 18 Ministral 3 14B 64.6%
  19. 19 Seed1.6-Thinking 64%
  20. 20 Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct 63.9%
  21. 21 Mistral Small 4 63.6%
  22. 22 Kimi k1.5 62.5%
  23. 23 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B 57.5%
  24. 24 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B 57.2%
  25. 25 Qwen2.5-72B 55.5%
  26. 26 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B 53.1%
  27. 27 LongCat-Flash-Omni 52.6%
  28. 28 Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 51.8%
  29. 29 Qwen2.5-32B 51.2%
  30. 30 DeepSeek-V3 49.2%
  31. 31 LongCat-Flash-Chat 48%
  32. 32 Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base 47.6%
  33. 33 Qwen2.5-14B 42.6%
  34. 34 DeepSeek-V2.5 Sep 2024 41.8%
  35. 35 ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B 38.8%
  36. 36 Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M 38.6%
  37. 37 Codestral 37.9%
  38. 38 Qwen-Turbo 37.8%
  39. 39 Qwen2-72B 35.7%
  40. 40 Gemini 2.0 Flash Dec 2024 35.1%
  41. 41 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 32.5%
  42. 42 Hunyuan-TurboS 32%
  43. 43 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base 29.8%
  44. 44 Gemma 3 27B 29.7%
  45. 45 Qwen2.5-7B 28.7%
  46. 46 Mercury Coder Small 25%
  47. 47 Gemma 3 12B 24.6%
  48. 48 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 24.6%
  49. 49 Phi-4 Mini 19.9%
  50. 50 InternLM3-8B-Instruct 17.8%
  51. 51 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B 16.9%
  52. 52 Gemma 3n E4B 13.2%
  53. 53 Gemma 3 4B 12.6%
  54. 54 Gemma 3 1B 1.90%

Source: Labs’ model cards

Source: Official LiveCodeBench leaderboard

74 models. Scroll sideways for the rest.

  1. 93.5 DeepSeek-V4-Pro
  2. 91.6 Qwen3.7-Max
  3. 91.0 o4-mini
  4. 89.6 Qwen3.7-Plus
  5. 89.6 DeepSeek-R1
  6. 89.2 o3
  7. 88.9 Gemini 2.5 Pro
  8. 88.7 DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
  9. 88.3 Beam 1.0
  10. 87.8 Qwen3-235B-A22B
  11. 87.5 Gemini 2.5 Pro
  12. 86.0 OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B
  13. 85.9 EXAONE 4.0 32B
  14. 83.9 OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B
  15. 83.5 Olmo 3 32B Think
  16. 83.3 DeepSeek-V3.2
  17. 83.3 Olmo 3.1 32B Think
  18. 83.0 MiniMax-M2
  19. 82.9 Grok-3 mini
  20. 82.9 Gemini 2.5 Flash
  21. 82.2 o3-mini
  22. 81.8 Gemini 2.5 Flash
  23. 81.0 MiniMax-M2.1
  24. 79.4 LongCat-Flash-Thinking
  25. 76.6 Claude Opus 4
  26. 75.8 STEP3-VL-10B
  27. 74.9 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
  28. 74.7 Claude Sonnet 4
  29. 74.1 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
  30. 71.1 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2
  31. 65.9 DeepSeek-R1
  32. 64.9 Hunyuan-T1
  33. 64.6 Ministral 3 14B
  34. 64.0 Seed1.6-Thinking
  35. 63.9 Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct
  36. 63.6 Mistral Small 4
  37. 62.5 Kimi k1.5
  38. 61.7 DeepSeek-V3
  39. 57.5 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
  40. 57.2 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
  41. 55.5 Qwen2.5-72B
  42. 54.1 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024)
  43. 53.1 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
  44. 52.6 LongCat-Flash-Omni
  45. 51.8 Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
  46. 51.2 Qwen2.5-32B
  47. 48.0 LongCat-Flash-Chat
  48. 47.6 Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base
  49. 42.6 GPT-4o
  50. 42.6 Qwen2.5-14B
  51. 42.0 GPT-4 Turbo
  52. 41.8 DeepSeek-V2.5
  53. 39.4 GPT-4o mini
  54. 38.8 ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B
  55. 38.6 Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M
  56. 37.9 Codestral
  57. 37.8 Qwen-Turbo
  58. 35.7 Qwen2-72B
  59. 35.1 Gemini 2.0 Flash
  60. 32.5 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)
  61. 32.0 Hunyuan-TurboS
  62. 29.8 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base
  63. 29.7 Gemma 3 27B
  64. 28.7 Qwen2.5-7B
  65. 25.0 Mercury Coder Small
  66. 24.6 Gemma 3 12B
  67. 24.6 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B
  68. 23.1 Claude 3 Haiku
  69. 19.9 Phi-4 Mini
  70. 17.8 InternLM3-8B-Instruct
  71. 16.9 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
  72. 13.2 Gemma 3n E4B
  73. 12.6 Gemma 3 4B
  74. 1.90 Gemma 3 1B
  1. 1 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5%
  2. 2 Qwen3.7-Max 91.6%
  3. 3 o4-mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high 91%
  4. 4 Qwen3.7-Plus 89.6%
  5. 5 DeepSeek-R1 May 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 89.6%
  6. 6 o3 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high 89.2%
  7. 7 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 88.9%
  8. 8 DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale 88.7%
  9. 9 Beam 1.0 88.3%
  10. 10 Qwen3-235B-A22B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 87.8%
  11. 11 Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 87.5%
  12. 12 OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 86%
  13. 13 EXAONE 4.0 32B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 85.9%
  14. 14 OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 83.9%
  15. 15 Olmo 3 32B Think 83.5%
  16. 16 DeepSeek-V3.2 83.3%
  17. 17 Olmo 3.1 32B Think 83.3%
  18. 18 MiniMax-M2 83%
  19. 19 Grok-3 mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high 82.9%
  20. 20 Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 82.9%
  21. 21 o3-mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); medium 82.2%
  22. 22 Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 81.8%
  23. 23 MiniMax-M2.1 81%
  24. 24 LongCat-Flash-Thinking 79.4%
  25. 25 Claude Opus 4 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 76.6%
  26. 26 STEP3-VL-10B 75.8%
  27. 27 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus 74.9%
  28. 28 Claude Sonnet 4 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 74.7%
  29. 29 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 74.1%
  30. 30 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 71.1%
  31. 31 DeepSeek-R1 65.9%
  32. 32 Hunyuan-T1 64.9%
  33. 33 Ministral 3 14B 64.6%
  34. 34 Seed1.6-Thinking 64%
  35. 35 Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct 63.9%
  36. 36 Mistral Small 4 63.6%
  37. 37 Kimi k1.5 62.5%
  38. 38 DeepSeek-V3 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 61.7%
  39. 39 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B 57.5%
  40. 40 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B 57.2%
  41. 41 Qwen2.5-72B 55.5%
  42. 42 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 54.1%
  43. 43 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B 53.1%
  44. 44 LongCat-Flash-Omni 52.6%
  45. 45 Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 51.8%
  46. 46 Qwen2.5-32B 51.2%
  47. 47 LongCat-Flash-Chat 48%
  48. 48 Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base 47.6%
  49. 49 GPT-4o Aug 2024, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 42.6%
  50. 50 Qwen2.5-14B 42.6%
  51. 51 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 42%
  52. 52 DeepSeek-V2.5 Sep 2024 41.8%
  53. 53 GPT-4o mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 39.4%
  54. 54 ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B 38.8%
  55. 55 Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M 38.6%
  56. 56 Codestral 37.9%
  57. 57 Qwen-Turbo 37.8%
  58. 58 Qwen2-72B 35.7%
  59. 59 Gemini 2.0 Flash Dec 2024 35.1%
  60. 60 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 32.5%
  61. 61 Hunyuan-TurboS 32%
  62. 62 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base 29.8%
  63. 63 Gemma 3 27B 29.7%
  64. 64 Qwen2.5-7B 28.7%
  65. 65 Mercury Coder Small 25%
  66. 66 Gemma 3 12B 24.6%
  67. 67 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 24.6%
  68. 68 Claude 3 Haiku 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 23.1%
  69. 69 Phi-4 Mini 19.9%
  70. 70 InternLM3-8B-Instruct 17.8%
  71. 71 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B 16.9%
  72. 72 Gemma 3n E4B 13.2%
  73. 73 Gemma 3 4B 12.6%
  74. 74 Gemma 3 1B 1.90%

Sources: Labs’ model cards and official LiveCodeBench leaderboard

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5% Apr 2026 Lab model card
2 Qwen3.7-Max 91.6% May 2026 Lab model card
3 Qwen3.7-Plus 89.6% Jun 2026 Lab model card
4 DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale 88.7% Dec 2025 Lab model card
5 Beam 1.0 88.3% Oct 2026 Lab model card
6 Olmo 3 32B Think 83.5% Nov 2025 Lab model card
7 DeepSeek-V3.2 83.3% Dec 2025 Lab model card
8 Olmo 3.1 32B Think 83.3% Dec 2025 Lab model card
9 MiniMax-M2 83% Oct 2025 Lab model card
10 MiniMax-M2.1 81% Dec 2025 Lab model card
11 LongCat-Flash-Thinking 79.4% Sep 2025 Lab model card
12 STEP3-VL-10B 75.8% Jan 2026 Lab model card
13 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus 74.9% Sep 2025 Lab model card
14 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 74.1% Sep 2025 Lab model card
15 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 71.1% Aug 2025 Lab model card
16 DeepSeek-R1 65.9% Jan 2025 Lab model card
17 Hunyuan-T1 64.9% Mar 2025 Lab model card
18 Ministral 3 14B 64.6% Dec 2025 Lab model card
19 Seed1.6-Thinking 64% Jun 2025 Lab model card
20 Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct 63.9% Jun 2025 Lab model card
21 Mistral Small 4 63.6% Mar 2026 Lab model card
22 Kimi k1.5 62.5% Jan 2025 Lab model card
23 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B 57.5% Jan 2025 Lab model card
24 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B 57.2% Jan 2025 Lab model card
25 Qwen2.5-72B 55.5% Sep 2024 Lab model card
26 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B 53.1% Jan 2025 Lab model card
27 LongCat-Flash-Omni 52.6% Oct 2025 Lab model card
28 Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 51.8% Mar 2026 Lab model card
29 Qwen2.5-32B 51.2% Dec 2024 Lab model card
30 DeepSeek-V3 49.2% Mar 2025 Lab model card
31 LongCat-Flash-Chat 48% Aug 2025 Lab model card
32 Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base 47.6% Oct 2026 Lab model card
33 Qwen2.5-14B 42.6% Dec 2024 Lab model card
34 DeepSeek-V2.5 Sep 2024 41.8% Sep 2024 Lab model card
35 ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B 38.8% Jun 2025 Lab model card
36 Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M 38.6% Jan 2025 Lab model card
37 Codestral 37.9% Jan 2025 Lab model card
38 Qwen-Turbo 37.8% Dec 2024 Lab model card
39 Qwen2-72B 35.7% Jun 2024 Lab model card
40 Gemini 2.0 Flash Dec 2024 35.1% Dec 2024 Lab model card
41 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 32.5% May 2024 Lab model card
42 Hunyuan-TurboS 32% Feb 2025 Lab model card
43 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base 29.8% Oct 2026 Lab model card
44 Gemma 3 27B 29.7% Mar 2025 Lab model card
45 Qwen2.5-7B 28.7% Dec 2024 Lab model card
46 Mercury Coder Small 25% Feb 2025 Lab model card
47 Gemma 3 12B 24.6% Mar 2025 Lab model card
48 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 24.6% Mar 2025 Lab model card
49 Phi-4 Mini 19.9% Mar 2025 Lab model card
50 InternLM3-8B-Instruct 17.8% Jan 2025 Lab model card
51 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B 16.9% Jan 2025 Lab model card
52 Gemma 3n E4B 13.2% Jun 2025 Lab model card
53 Gemma 3 4B 12.6% Mar 2025 Lab model card
54 Gemma 3 1B 1.90% Mar 2025 Lab model card
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 o4-mini 91% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
2 DeepSeek-R1 May 2025 89.6% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
3 o3 89.2% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
4 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 88.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jun 2025 Official leaderboard
5 Qwen3-235B-A22B 87.8% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
6 Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025 87.5% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
7 OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B 86% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jul 2025 Official leaderboard
8 EXAONE 4.0 32B 85.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jul 2025 Official leaderboard
9 OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B 83.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jun 2025 Official leaderboard
10 Grok-3 mini 82.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
11 Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025 82.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
12 o3-mini 82.2% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); medium Jan 2025 Official leaderboard
13 Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 81.8% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
14 Claude Opus 4 76.6% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
15 Claude Sonnet 4 74.7% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
16 DeepSeek-V3 61.7% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Dec 2024 Official leaderboard
17 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 54.1% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Oct 2024 Official leaderboard
18 GPT-4o Aug 2024 42.6% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Aug 2024 Official leaderboard
19 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 42% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Apr 2024 Official leaderboard
20 GPT-4o mini 39.4% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jul 2024 Official leaderboard
21 Claude 3 Haiku 23.1% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Mar 2024 Official leaderboard
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5% Apr 2026 Lab model card
2 Qwen3.7-Max 91.6% May 2026 Lab model card
3 o4-mini 91% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
4 Qwen3.7-Plus 89.6% Jun 2026 Lab model card
5 DeepSeek-R1 May 2025 89.6% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
6 o3 89.2% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
7 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 88.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jun 2025 Official leaderboard
8 DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale 88.7% Dec 2025 Lab model card
9 Beam 1.0 88.3% Oct 2026 Lab model card
10 Qwen3-235B-A22B 87.8% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
11 Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025 87.5% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
12 OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B 86% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jul 2025 Official leaderboard
13 EXAONE 4.0 32B 85.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jul 2025 Official leaderboard
14 OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B 83.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jun 2025 Official leaderboard
15 Olmo 3 32B Think 83.5% Nov 2025 Lab model card
16 DeepSeek-V3.2 83.3% Dec 2025 Lab model card
17 Olmo 3.1 32B Think 83.3% Dec 2025 Lab model card
18 MiniMax-M2 83% Oct 2025 Lab model card
19 Grok-3 mini 82.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
20 Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025 82.9% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
21 o3-mini 82.2% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); medium Jan 2025 Official leaderboard
22 Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 81.8% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Apr 2025 Official leaderboard
23 MiniMax-M2.1 81% Dec 2025 Lab model card
24 LongCat-Flash-Thinking 79.4% Sep 2025 Lab model card
25 Claude Opus 4 76.6% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
26 STEP3-VL-10B 75.8% Jan 2026 Lab model card
27 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus 74.9% Sep 2025 Lab model card
28 Claude Sonnet 4 74.7% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) May 2025 Official leaderboard
29 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 74.1% Sep 2025 Lab model card
30 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 71.1% Aug 2025 Lab model card
31 DeepSeek-R1 65.9% Jan 2025 Lab model card
32 Hunyuan-T1 64.9% Mar 2025 Lab model card
33 Ministral 3 14B 64.6% Dec 2025 Lab model card
34 Seed1.6-Thinking 64% Jun 2025 Lab model card
35 Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct 63.9% Jun 2025 Lab model card
36 Mistral Small 4 63.6% Mar 2026 Lab model card
37 Kimi k1.5 62.5% Jan 2025 Lab model card
38 DeepSeek-V3 61.7% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Dec 2024 Official leaderboard
39 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B 57.5% Jan 2025 Lab model card
40 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B 57.2% Jan 2025 Lab model card
41 Qwen2.5-72B 55.5% Sep 2024 Lab model card
42 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 54.1% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Oct 2024 Official leaderboard
43 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B 53.1% Jan 2025 Lab model card
44 LongCat-Flash-Omni 52.6% Oct 2025 Lab model card
45 Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 51.8% Mar 2026 Lab model card
46 Qwen2.5-32B 51.2% Dec 2024 Lab model card
47 LongCat-Flash-Chat 48% Aug 2025 Lab model card
48 Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base 47.6% Oct 2026 Lab model card
49 GPT-4o Aug 2024 42.6% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Aug 2024 Official leaderboard
50 Qwen2.5-14B 42.6% Dec 2024 Lab model card
51 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 42% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Apr 2024 Official leaderboard
52 DeepSeek-V2.5 Sep 2024 41.8% Sep 2024 Lab model card
53 GPT-4o mini 39.4% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Jul 2024 Official leaderboard
54 ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B 38.8% Jun 2025 Lab model card
55 Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M 38.6% Jan 2025 Lab model card
56 Codestral 37.9% Jan 2025 Lab model card
57 Qwen-Turbo 37.8% Dec 2024 Lab model card
58 Qwen2-72B 35.7% Jun 2024 Lab model card
59 Gemini 2.0 Flash Dec 2024 35.1% Dec 2024 Lab model card
60 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 32.5% May 2024 Lab model card
61 Hunyuan-TurboS 32% Feb 2025 Lab model card
62 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base 29.8% Oct 2026 Lab model card
63 Gemma 3 27B 29.7% Mar 2025 Lab model card
64 Qwen2.5-7B 28.7% Dec 2024 Lab model card
65 Mercury Coder Small 25% Feb 2025 Lab model card
66 Gemma 3 12B 24.6% Mar 2025 Lab model card
67 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 24.6% Mar 2025 Lab model card
68 Claude 3 Haiku 23.1% 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) Mar 2024 Official leaderboard
69 Phi-4 Mini 19.9% Mar 2025 Lab model card
70 InternLM3-8B-Instruct 17.8% Jan 2025 Lab model card
71 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B 16.9% Jan 2025 Lab model card
72 Gemma 3n E4B 13.2% Jun 2025 Lab model card
73 Gemma 3 4B 12.6% Mar 2025 Lab model card
74 Gemma 3 1B 1.90% Mar 2025 Lab model card

The benchmark's own leaderboard has 22 entries, 21 of them models we track. Switch the scores above to rank them together.

11 models have held number one in labs’ own numbers since its release in March 2024 8 models have held number one across all independent runs since its release in March 2024 10 models have held number one with claims included since its release in March 2024

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 DeepSeek xAI Qwen Other labs Meituan MiniMax Ai2
Own leaderboard Passed 85% in Apr 2025, by o4-mini
o4-mini 91%
Lab claims Passed 85% in Dec 2025, by DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale

Sources: Official LiveCodeBench leaderboard and labs’ model cards

O4-mini on the official leaderboard passed 85% in April 2025

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%) DeepSeek-V4-Pro o4-mini Grok-3 mini DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek-V3 Qwen2.5-72B GPT-4o 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) DeepSeek-V4-Pro Grok-3 mini

Sources: Official LiveCodeBench leaderboard and labs’ model cards

2 labs put it in a launch post in the last six months

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.

DeepSeek
Qwen
Google DeepMind
Shanghai AI Lab
Mistral AI
Moonshot AI
xAI
Inception Labs
Tencent
Baidu
Meta
ByteDance Seed
Z.ai
NVIDIA
Meituan
MiniMax
Ai2
StepFun
Reflection
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
Oct 5, 2026 Beam 1.0 88.3 LiveCodeBench, Beam BF16
Jun 1, 2026 Qwen3.7-Plus 89.6 LiveCodeBench
May 20, 2026 Qwen3.7-Max 91.6 LiveCodeBench
Apr 24, 2026 DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5 LiveCodeBench (Pass@1)
Mar 16, 2026 Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 51.8 LCB (reasoning on, version not stated)
Mar 16, 2026 Mistral Small 4 63.6 LiveCodeBench [Mistral Small 4 - High]
Mar 3, 2026 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite LiveCodeBench (UI: 1/1/2025-5/1/2025)
Jan 13, 2026 STEP3-VL-10B 75.8 LiveCodeBench (SeRe)
Dec 23, 2025 MiniMax-M2.1 81 LCB
Dec 12, 2025 Olmo 3.1 32B Think 83.3 LiveCodeBench v3
Dec 2, 2025 Ministral 3 14B 64.6 LiveCodeBench 0.646 (reasoning, version not stated)
Dec 2, 2025 Mistral Large 3 LiveCodeBench (no CoT) [base]
Dec 1, 2025 DeepSeek-V3.2 83.3 LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT)
Nov 20, 2025 Olmo 3 32B Think 83.5 LiveCodeBench v3
Oct 31, 2025 LongCat-Flash-Omni 52.6 LiveCodeBench(pass@1)
Oct 27, 2025 MiniMax-M2 83 LiveCodeBench (LCB) (AA)
Sep 29, 2025 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 74.1 LiveCodeBench
Sep 22, 2025 DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus 74.9 LiveCodeBench
Sep 21, 2025 LongCat-Flash-Thinking 79.4 LiveCodeBench(Mean@4)
Sep 19, 2025 Grok 4 Fast LiveCodeBench (Jan-May) pass@1
Aug 29, 2025 LongCat-Flash-Chat 48 LiveCodeBench(pass@1)
Aug 18, 2025 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 71.1 LCB (version not stated)
Jul 28, 2025 GLM-4.5 LiveCodeBench (2407-2501)
Jul 9, 2025 Grok 4 LiveCodeBench (Jan - May), with Python (no tools 79.0)
Jul 9, 2025 Grok 4 Heavy LiveCodeBench (Jan - May) [Grok 4 Heavy]
Jun 30, 2025 ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B 38.8 LiveCodeBench
Jun 27, 2025 Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct 63.9 Livecodebench
Jun 26, 2025 Gemma 3n E4B 13.2 LiveCodeBench pass@1 0-shot (IT, version not stated)
Jun 25, 2025 Seed1.6-Thinking 64 LiveCodeBench (version not stated)
Jun 17, 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro LiveCodeBench, UI: 1/1/2025 - 5/1/2025, single attempt
May 8, 2025 Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct LiveCodeBench (2410 to 2502)
Apr 5, 2025 Llama 4 Maverick LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025), pass@1
Apr 5, 2025 Llama 4 Behemoth LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025)
Mar 27, 2025 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 24.6 LiveCodeBench2305-2409
Mar 24, 2025 DeepSeek-V3 49.2 LiveCodeBench
Mar 21, 2025 Hunyuan-T1 64.9 LiveCodeBench
Mar 16, 2025 ERNIE 4.5 LiveCodeBench
Mar 12, 2025 Gemma 3 27B 29.7 LiveCodeBench 0-shot (IT)
Feb 27, 2025 Hunyuan-TurboS 32 LiveCodeBench
Feb 26, 2025 Mercury Coder Small 25 LiveCodeBench (version not stated)
Feb 19, 2025 Grok-3 mini LCB (Code Generation: 10/1/2024 - 2/1/2025) (cons@64; pass@1 = 74.8) [Grok 3 mini Think]
Feb 19, 2025 Grok 3 LCB (Code Generation: 10/1/2024 - 2/1/2025) (cons@64; pass@1 = 70.6)
Jan 28, 2025 Qwen2.5-Max LiveCodeBench (24.08-24.11)
Jan 20, 2025 Kimi k1.5 62.5 LiveCodeBench (Pass@1), long-CoT
Jan 20, 2025 DeepSeek-R1 65.9 LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT)
Jan 13, 2025 Codestral 37.9 LiveCodeBench (version not stated)
Jan 13, 2025 InternLM3-8B-Instruct 17.8 LiveCodeBench(2407-2409 Pass@1)
Dec 26, 2024 DeepSeek-V3 Best of LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT) / LiveCodeBench-Base (Pass@1)
Dec 11, 2024 Gemini 2.0 Flash 35.1 LiveCodeBench (Code Generation), 06/01/2024 - 10/05/2024
Sep 19, 2024 Qwen2.5-72B 55.5 LiveCodeBench 2305-2409
Sep 5, 2024 DeepSeek-V2.5 41.8 LiveCodeBench(01-09)
Jun 7, 2024 Qwen2-72B 35.7 LiveCodeBench
May 7, 2024 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 32.5 LiveCodeBench (0901-0401)

37 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
Oct 15, 2026 Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base technical report 47.6 LiveCodeBench CodeGen, pass@1, Table 6 Capabilities
Oct 15, 2026 Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base technical report 29.8 LiveCodeBench CodeGen, pass@1, Table 6 Capabilities
Sep 10, 2026 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash technical report LiveCodeBench (Pass@1) vs reasoning effort, chart only, text gives +2.6 points from effort 25 to 100 (Figure 12) Capabilities
Mar 3, 2026 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite model card LiveCodeBench, UI 1/1/2025 to 5/1/2025 (results table, p.4) Capabilities
Feb 17, 2026 GLM-5 technical report GLM-5-Base, LiveCodeBench-Base (Pass@1), version not stated (Table 11) Capabilities
Dec 15, 2025 Olmo 3 32B Think technical report 83.5 LiveCodeBench v3, Avg@10, Final Think 3.0 column (Table 14) Capabilities
Dec 15, 2025 Olmo 3.1 32B Think technical report 83.3 LiveCodeBench v3, Avg@10 (Tables 1 and 14) Capabilities
Dec 1, 2025 DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale technical report 88.7 LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT), DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale (Table 3) Capabilities
Nov 6, 2025 Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL technical report LiveCodeBench (07/24 to 12/24), reasoning on, SFT stage 4 (Table 6) Capabilities
Aug 20, 2025 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 technical report LiveCodeBench, NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 (Figure 1). Section 3.3 names the 07/24 to 12/24 window Capabilities
Jul 7, 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro technical report LiveCodeBench, pass@1, 1/1/2025-5/1/2025 window (Table 3) Capabilities
Jul 7, 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash technical report LiveCodeBench, pass@1, 1/1/2025-5/1/2025 window (Table 3) Capabilities
Jun 26, 2025 Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct technical report 63.9 LiveCodeBench, slow-thinking (Table 3). Fast-thinking 27.4 (Table 4) Capabilities
Jun 17, 2025 Mercury Coder Small technical report 25 LCB, version not stated, marked as reported by Artificial Analysis (Table 1) Capabilities
Jun 4, 2025 Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct technical report LiveCodeBench (2410 to 2502) pass@1 (Table 7) Capabilities
Apr 5, 2025 Llama 4 Scout model card LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025), 0-shot, pass@1, instruction tuned (Instruction tuned models table) Capabilities
Apr 5, 2025 Llama 4 Maverick model card LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025), 0-shot, pass@1, instruction tuned (Instruction tuned models table) Capabilities
Mar 26, 2025 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B technical report 24.6 LiveCodeBench2305-2409 (Table 1) Capabilities
Mar 25, 2025 Gemma 3 4B technical report 12.6 LiveCodeBench, IT, zero-shot (Table 6). Table 18 gives 23.0 Capabilities
Mar 25, 2025 Gemma 3 27B technical report 29.7 LiveCodeBench, IT, zero-shot (Table 6). Table 18 gives 39.0 Capabilities
Mar 25, 2025 Gemma 3 1B technical report 1.9 LiveCodeBench, IT, zero-shot (Table 6). Table 18 gives 5.0 Capabilities
Mar 25, 2025 Gemma 3 12B technical report 24.6 LiveCodeBench, IT, zero-shot (Table 6). Table 18 gives 32.0 Capabilities
Mar 3, 2025 Phi-4 Mini technical report 19.9 LCB (05-09-2024) (Table 8) Capabilities
Jan 26, 2025 Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M technical report 38.6 LiveCodeBench 2305-2409 (Table 6) Capabilities
Jan 20, 2025 Kimi k1.5 technical report 62.5 LiveCodeBench (Pass@1), long-CoT (Table 2). Short-CoT 47.3 (Table 3) Capabilities
Jan 20, 2025 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B technical report 57.2 LiveCodeBench pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B (Table 15) Capabilities
Jan 20, 2025 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B technical report 53.1 LiveCodeBench pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B (Table 15) Capabilities
Jan 20, 2025 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B technical report 16.9 LiveCodeBench pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B (Table 15) Capabilities
Jan 20, 2025 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B technical report 57.5 LiveCodeBench pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B (Table 15) Capabilities
Dec 26, 2024 DeepSeek-V3 technical report LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT), questions Aug to Nov 2024, DeepSeek-V3 (Table 6). Plain Pass@1 37.6 Capabilities
Dec 19, 2024 Qwen2.5-7B technical report 28.7 LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Table 8) Capabilities
Dec 19, 2024 Qwen2.5-72B technical report 55.5 LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Table 6) Capabilities
Dec 19, 2024 Qwen2.5-32B technical report 51.2 LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct (Table 7) Capabilities
Dec 19, 2024 Qwen2.5-14B technical report 42.6 LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct (Table 7) Capabilities
Dec 19, 2024 Qwen-Turbo technical report 37.8 LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-Turbo (Table 7) Capabilities
Jul 15, 2024 Qwen2-72B technical report 35.7 LiveCodeBench v1, Qwen2-72B-Instruct (Table 6) Capabilities
May 7, 2024 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) technical report 32.5 LiveCodeBench 0-shot, questions 2023-09-01 to 2024-04-01, DeepSeek-V2 Chat (RL) (Table 3) Capabilities

One lab claim next to the leaderboard

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
DeepSeek-V3 49.2% LiveCodeBench 61.7% Leaderboard, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) −13 pts

One logged change that moves scores

Changes by the maintainers, so a score from before a change may not compare with one from after it. Newest first, each with the maintainers' own source. The list may be incomplete. What we log.

  1. Harness changed April 16th, 2024

    The LiveCodeBench maintainers added tests to the lite code-generation dataset. Earlier evaluations used a different test collection, which can change whether a generated program passes. Source

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 Other labs Meituan MiniMax Ai2 Google DeepMind LG AI Research NVIDIA Mistral AI Xiaomi Corp Ant Group Moonshot AI
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
LiveCodeBench v6 Passed 85% in Aug 2025, by Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

Source: Labs’ model cards

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