LiveCodeBench
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
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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
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.
- 93.5
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
- 91.6
Qwen3.7-Max
- 89.6
Qwen3.7-Plus
- 88.7
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
- 88.3 Beam 1.0
- 83.5
Olmo 3 32B Think
- 83.3
DeepSeek-V3.2
- 83.3
Olmo 3.1 32B Think
- 83.0
MiniMax-M2
- 81.0
MiniMax-M2.1
- 79.4
LongCat-Flash-Thinking
- 75.8
STEP3-VL-10B
- 74.9
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
- 74.1
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
- 71.1 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2
- 65.9
DeepSeek-R1
- 64.9
Hunyuan-T1
- 64.6
Ministral 3 14B
- 64.0
Seed1.6-Thinking
- 63.9
Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct
- 63.6
Mistral Small 4
- 62.5 Kimi k1.5
- 57.5
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
- 57.2
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
- 55.5
Qwen2.5-72B
- 53.1
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
- 52.6
LongCat-Flash-Omni
- 51.8
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
- 51.2
Qwen2.5-32B
- 49.2
DeepSeek-V3
- 48.0
LongCat-Flash-Chat
- 47.6
Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base
- 42.6
Qwen2.5-14B
- 41.8
DeepSeek-V2.5
- 38.8
ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B
- 38.6
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M
- 37.9
Codestral
- 37.8
Qwen-Turbo
- 35.7
Qwen2-72B
- 35.1
Gemini 2.0 Flash
- 32.5
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)
- 32.0
Hunyuan-TurboS
- 29.8
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base
- 29.7
Gemma 3 27B
- 28.7
Qwen2.5-7B
- 25.0 Mercury Coder Small
- 24.6
Gemma 3 12B
- 24.6
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B
- 19.9
Phi-4 Mini
- 17.8
InternLM3-8B-Instruct
- 16.9
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
- 13.2
Gemma 3n E4B
- 12.6
Gemma 3 4B
- 1.90
Gemma 3 1B
- 1
DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5%
- 2
Qwen3.7-Max 91.6%
- 3
Qwen3.7-Plus 89.6%
- 4
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale 88.7%
- 5 Beam 1.0 88.3%
- 6
Olmo 3 32B Think 83.5%
- 7
DeepSeek-V3.2 83.3%
- 8
Olmo 3.1 32B Think 83.3%
- 9
MiniMax-M2 83%
- 10
MiniMax-M2.1 81%
- 11
LongCat-Flash-Thinking 79.4%
- 12
STEP3-VL-10B 75.8%
- 13
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus 74.9%
- 14
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 74.1%
- 15 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 71.1%
- 16
DeepSeek-R1 65.9%
- 17
Hunyuan-T1 64.9%
- 18
Ministral 3 14B 64.6%
- 19
Seed1.6-Thinking 64%
- 20
Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct 63.9%
- 21
Mistral Small 4 63.6%
- 22 Kimi k1.5 62.5%
- 23
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B 57.5%
- 24
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B 57.2%
- 25
Qwen2.5-72B 55.5%
- 26
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B 53.1%
- 27
LongCat-Flash-Omni 52.6%
- 28
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 51.8%
- 29
Qwen2.5-32B 51.2%
- 30
DeepSeek-V3 49.2%
- 31
LongCat-Flash-Chat 48%
- 32
Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base 47.6%
- 33
Qwen2.5-14B 42.6%
- 34
DeepSeek-V2.5 Sep 2024 41.8%
- 35
ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B 38.8%
- 36
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M 38.6%
- 37
Codestral 37.9%
- 38
Qwen-Turbo 37.8%
- 39
Qwen2-72B 35.7%
- 40
Gemini 2.0 Flash Dec 2024 35.1%
- 41
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 32.5%
- 42
Hunyuan-TurboS 32%
- 43
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base 29.8%
- 44
Gemma 3 27B 29.7%
- 45
Qwen2.5-7B 28.7%
- 46 Mercury Coder Small 25%
- 47
Gemma 3 12B 24.6%
- 48
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 24.6%
- 49
Phi-4 Mini 19.9%
- 50
InternLM3-8B-Instruct 17.8%
- 51
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B 16.9%
- 52
Gemma 3n E4B 13.2%
- 53
Gemma 3 4B 12.6%
- 54
Gemma 3 1B 1.90%
Source: Labs’ model cards
- 91.0 o4-mini
- 89.6
DeepSeek-R1
- 89.2 o3
- 88.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 87.8
Qwen3-235B-A22B
- 87.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 86.0
OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B
- 85.9
EXAONE 4.0 32B
- 83.9
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B
- 82.9 Grok-3 mini
- 82.9
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 82.2 o3-mini
- 81.8
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 76.6 Claude Opus 4
- 74.7 Claude Sonnet 4
- 61.7
DeepSeek-V3
- 54.1 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024)
- 42.6 GPT-4o
- 42.0 GPT-4 Turbo
- 39.4 GPT-4o mini
- 23.1 Claude 3 Haiku
- 1 o4-mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high 91%
- 2
DeepSeek-R1 May 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 89.6%
- 3 o3 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high 89.2%
- 4
Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 88.9%
- 5
Qwen3-235B-A22B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 87.8%
- 6
Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 87.5%
- 7
OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 86%
- 8
EXAONE 4.0 32B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 85.9%
- 9
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 83.9%
- 10 Grok-3 mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high 82.9%
- 11
Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 82.9%
- 12 o3-mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); medium 82.2%
- 13
Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 81.8%
- 14 Claude Opus 4 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 76.6%
- 15 Claude Sonnet 4 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 74.7%
- 16
DeepSeek-V3 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 61.7%
- 17 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 54.1%
- 18 GPT-4o Aug 2024, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 42.6%
- 19 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 42%
- 20 GPT-4o mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 39.4%
- 21 Claude 3 Haiku 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 23.1%
Source: Official LiveCodeBench leaderboard
- 93.5
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
- 91.6
Qwen3.7-Max
- 91.0 o4-mini
- 89.6
Qwen3.7-Plus
- 89.6
DeepSeek-R1
- 89.2 o3
- 88.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 88.7
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
- 88.3 Beam 1.0
- 87.8
Qwen3-235B-A22B
- 87.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 86.0
OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B
- 85.9
EXAONE 4.0 32B
- 83.9
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B
- 83.5
Olmo 3 32B Think
- 83.3
DeepSeek-V3.2
- 83.3
Olmo 3.1 32B Think
- 83.0
MiniMax-M2
- 82.9 Grok-3 mini
- 82.9
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 82.2 o3-mini
- 81.8
Gemini 2.5 Flash
- 81.0
MiniMax-M2.1
- 79.4
LongCat-Flash-Thinking
- 76.6 Claude Opus 4
- 75.8
STEP3-VL-10B
- 74.9
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
- 74.7 Claude Sonnet 4
- 74.1
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
- 71.1 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2
- 65.9
DeepSeek-R1
- 64.9
Hunyuan-T1
- 64.6
Ministral 3 14B
- 64.0
Seed1.6-Thinking
- 63.9
Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct
- 63.6
Mistral Small 4
- 62.5 Kimi k1.5
- 61.7
DeepSeek-V3
- 57.5
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
- 57.2
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
- 55.5
Qwen2.5-72B
- 54.1 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024)
- 53.1
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
- 52.6
LongCat-Flash-Omni
- 51.8
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B
- 51.2
Qwen2.5-32B
- 48.0
LongCat-Flash-Chat
- 47.6
Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base
- 42.6 GPT-4o
- 42.6
Qwen2.5-14B
- 42.0 GPT-4 Turbo
- 41.8
DeepSeek-V2.5
- 39.4 GPT-4o mini
- 38.8
ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B
- 38.6
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M
- 37.9
Codestral
- 37.8
Qwen-Turbo
- 35.7
Qwen2-72B
- 35.1
Gemini 2.0 Flash
- 32.5
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)
- 32.0
Hunyuan-TurboS
- 29.8
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base
- 29.7
Gemma 3 27B
- 28.7
Qwen2.5-7B
- 25.0 Mercury Coder Small
- 24.6
Gemma 3 12B
- 24.6
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B
- 23.1 Claude 3 Haiku
- 19.9
Phi-4 Mini
- 17.8
InternLM3-8B-Instruct
- 16.9
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
- 13.2
Gemma 3n E4B
- 12.6
Gemma 3 4B
- 1.90
Gemma 3 1B
- 1
DeepSeek-V4-Pro 93.5%
- 2
Qwen3.7-Max 91.6%
- 3 o4-mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high 91%
- 4
Qwen3.7-Plus 89.6%
- 5
DeepSeek-R1 May 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 89.6%
- 6 o3 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high 89.2%
- 7
Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 88.9%
- 8
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale 88.7%
- 9 Beam 1.0 88.3%
- 10
Qwen3-235B-A22B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 87.8%
- 11
Gemini 2.5 Pro May 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 87.5%
- 12
OpenReasoning-Nemotron-32B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 86%
- 13
EXAONE 4.0 32B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 85.9%
- 14
OpenCodeReasoning-Nemotron-1.1-32B 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 83.9%
- 15
Olmo 3 32B Think 83.5%
- 16
DeepSeek-V3.2 83.3%
- 17
Olmo 3.1 32B Think 83.3%
- 18
MiniMax-M2 83%
- 19 Grok-3 mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high 82.9%
- 20
Gemini 2.5 Flash May 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 82.9%
- 21 o3-mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); medium 82.2%
- 22
Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 81.8%
- 23
MiniMax-M2.1 81%
- 24
LongCat-Flash-Thinking 79.4%
- 25 Claude Opus 4 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 76.6%
- 26
STEP3-VL-10B 75.8%
- 27
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus 74.9%
- 28 Claude Sonnet 4 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 74.7%
- 29
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 74.1%
- 30 nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 71.1%
- 31
DeepSeek-R1 65.9%
- 32
Hunyuan-T1 64.9%
- 33
Ministral 3 14B 64.6%
- 34
Seed1.6-Thinking 64%
- 35
Hunyuan-A13B-Instruct 63.9%
- 36
Mistral Small 4 63.6%
- 37 Kimi k1.5 62.5%
- 38
DeepSeek-V3 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 61.7%
- 39
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B 57.5%
- 40
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B 57.2%
- 41
Qwen2.5-72B 55.5%
- 42 Claude 3.5 Sonnet (October 2024) 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 54.1%
- 43
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B 53.1%
- 44
LongCat-Flash-Omni 52.6%
- 45
Nemotron 3 Nano 4B 51.8%
- 46
Qwen2.5-32B 51.2%
- 47
LongCat-Flash-Chat 48%
- 48
Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B Base 47.6%
- 49 GPT-4o Aug 2024, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 42.6%
- 50
Qwen2.5-14B 42.6%
- 51 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024, 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 42%
- 52
DeepSeek-V2.5 Sep 2024 41.8%
- 53 GPT-4o mini 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 39.4%
- 54
ERNIE-4.5-300B-A47B 38.8%
- 55
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M 38.6%
- 56
Codestral 37.9%
- 57
Qwen-Turbo 37.8%
- 58
Qwen2-72B 35.7%
- 59
Gemini 2.0 Flash Dec 2024 35.1%
- 60
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 32.5%
- 61
Hunyuan-TurboS 32%
- 62
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base 29.8%
- 63
Gemma 3 27B 29.7%
- 64
Qwen2.5-7B 28.7%
- 65 Mercury Coder Small 25%
- 66
Gemma 3 12B 24.6%
- 67
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B 24.6%
- 68 Claude 3 Haiku 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) 23.1%
- 69
Phi-4 Mini 19.9%
- 70
InternLM3-8B-Instruct 17.8%
- 71
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B 16.9%
- 72
Gemma 3n E4B 13.2%
- 73
Gemma 3 4B 12.6%
- 74
Gemma 3 1B 1.90%
Sources: Labs’ model cards and official LiveCodeBench leaderboard
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 93.5% | Apr 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | | 91.6% | May 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 3 | | 89.6% | Jun 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 4 | | 88.7% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 5 | Beam 1.0 | 88.3% | Oct 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 6 | | 83.5% | Nov 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 7 | | 83.3% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 8 | | 83.3% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 9 | | 83% | Oct 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 10 | | 81% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 11 | | 79.4% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 12 | | 75.8% | Jan 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 13 | | 74.9% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 14 | | 74.1% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 15 | nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 | 71.1% | Aug 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 16 | | 65.9% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 17 | | 64.9% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 18 | | 64.6% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 19 | | 64% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 20 | | 63.9% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 21 | | 63.6% | Mar 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 22 | Kimi k1.5 | 62.5% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 23 | | 57.5% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 24 | | 57.2% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 25 | | 55.5% | Sep 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 26 | | 53.1% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 27 | | 52.6% | Oct 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 28 | | 51.8% | Mar 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 29 | | 51.2% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 30 | | 49.2% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 31 | | 48% | Aug 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 32 | | 47.6% | Oct 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 33 | | 42.6% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 34 | | 41.8% | Sep 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 35 | | 38.8% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 36 | | 38.6% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 37 | | 37.9% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 38 | | 37.8% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 39 | | 35.7% | Jun 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 40 | | 35.1% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 41 | | 32.5% | May 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 42 | | 32% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 43 | | 29.8% | Oct 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 44 | | 29.7% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 45 | | 28.7% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 46 | Mercury Coder Small | 25% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 47 | | 24.6% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 48 | | 24.6% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 49 | | 19.9% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 50 | | 17.8% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 51 | | 16.9% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 52 | | 13.2% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 53 | | 12.6% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 54 | | 1.90% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card |
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | o4-mini | 91% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive); high | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 2 | | 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 | | 88.9% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Jun 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 5 | | 87.8% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 6 | | 87.5% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | May 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 7 | | 86% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Jul 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 8 | | 85.9% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Jul 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 9 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 |
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 93.5% | Apr 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | | 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 | | 89.6% | Jun 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 5 | | 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 | | 88.9% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Jun 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 8 | | 88.7% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 9 | Beam 1.0 | 88.3% | Oct 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 10 | | 87.8% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 11 | | 87.5% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | May 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 12 | | 86% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Jul 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 13 | | 85.9% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Jul 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 14 | | 83.9% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Jun 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 15 | | 83.5% | Nov 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 16 | | 83.3% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 17 | | 83.3% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 18 | | 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 | | 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 | | 81.8% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Apr 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 23 | | 81% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 24 | | 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 | | 75.8% | Jan 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 27 | | 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 | | 74.1% | Sep 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 30 | nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2 | 71.1% | Aug 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 31 | | 65.9% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 32 | | 64.9% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 33 | | 64.6% | Dec 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 34 | | 64% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 35 | | 63.9% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 36 | | 63.6% | Mar 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 37 | Kimi k1.5 | 62.5% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 38 | | 61.7% | 2023-05-01 to 2024-10-01 (exclusive) | Dec 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 39 | | 57.5% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 40 | | 57.2% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 41 | | 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 | | 53.1% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 44 | | 52.6% | Oct 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 45 | | 51.8% | Mar 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 46 | | 51.2% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 47 | | 48% | Aug 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 48 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 38.8% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 55 | | 38.6% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 56 | | 37.9% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 57 | | 37.8% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 58 | | 35.7% | Jun 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 59 | | 35.1% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 60 | | 32.5% | May 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 61 | | 32% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 62 | | 29.8% | Oct 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 63 | | 29.7% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 64 | | 28.7% | Dec 2024 | Lab model card | |
| 65 | Mercury Coder Small | 25% | Feb 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 66 | | 24.6% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 67 | | 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 | | 19.9% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 70 | | 17.8% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 71 | | 16.9% | Jan 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 72 | | 13.2% | Jun 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 73 | | 12.6% | Mar 2025 | Lab model card | |
| 74 | | 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.
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.
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.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2026 | Beam 1.0 | 88.3 | LiveCodeBench, Beam BF16 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | 89.6 | LiveCodeBench | |
| May 20, 2026 | 91.6 | LiveCodeBench | |
| Apr 24, 2026 | 93.5 | LiveCodeBench (Pass@1) | |
| Mar 16, 2026 | 51.8 | LCB (reasoning on, version not stated) | |
| Mar 16, 2026 | 63.6 | LiveCodeBench [Mistral Small 4 - High] | |
| Mar 3, 2026 | LiveCodeBench (UI: 1/1/2025-5/1/2025) | ||
| Jan 13, 2026 | 75.8 | LiveCodeBench (SeRe) | |
| Dec 23, 2025 | 81 | LCB | |
| Dec 12, 2025 | 83.3 | LiveCodeBench v3 | |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 64.6 | LiveCodeBench 0.646 (reasoning, version not stated) | |
| Dec 2, 2025 | LiveCodeBench (no CoT) [base] | ||
| Dec 1, 2025 | 83.3 | LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT) | |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 83.5 | LiveCodeBench v3 | |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 52.6 | LiveCodeBench(pass@1) | |
| Oct 27, 2025 | 83 | LiveCodeBench (LCB) (AA) | |
| Sep 29, 2025 | 74.1 | LiveCodeBench | |
| Sep 22, 2025 | 74.9 | LiveCodeBench | |
| Sep 21, 2025 | 79.4 | LiveCodeBench(Mean@4) | |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Grok 4 Fast | LiveCodeBench (Jan-May) pass@1 | |
| Aug 29, 2025 | 48 | LiveCodeBench(pass@1) | |
| Aug 18, 2025 | 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 | 38.8 | LiveCodeBench | |
| Jun 27, 2025 | 63.9 | Livecodebench | |
| Jun 26, 2025 | 13.2 | LiveCodeBench pass@1 0-shot (IT, version not stated) | |
| Jun 25, 2025 | 64 | LiveCodeBench (version not stated) | |
| Jun 17, 2025 | LiveCodeBench, UI: 1/1/2025 - 5/1/2025, single attempt | ||
| May 8, 2025 | LiveCodeBench (2410 to 2502) | ||
| Apr 5, 2025 | LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025), pass@1 | ||
| Apr 5, 2025 | LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025) | ||
| Mar 27, 2025 | 24.6 | LiveCodeBench2305-2409 | |
| Mar 24, 2025 | 49.2 | LiveCodeBench | |
| Mar 21, 2025 | 64.9 | LiveCodeBench | |
| Mar 16, 2025 | LiveCodeBench | ||
| Mar 12, 2025 | 29.7 | LiveCodeBench 0-shot (IT) | |
| Feb 27, 2025 | 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 | LiveCodeBench (24.08-24.11) | ||
| Jan 20, 2025 | Kimi k1.5 | 62.5 | LiveCodeBench (Pass@1), long-CoT |
| Jan 20, 2025 | 65.9 | LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT) | |
| Jan 13, 2025 | 37.9 | LiveCodeBench (version not stated) | |
| Jan 13, 2025 | 17.8 | LiveCodeBench(2407-2409 Pass@1) | |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Best of LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT) / LiveCodeBench-Base (Pass@1) | ||
| Dec 11, 2024 | 35.1 | LiveCodeBench (Code Generation), 06/01/2024 - 10/05/2024 | |
| Sep 19, 2024 | 55.5 | LiveCodeBench 2305-2409 | |
| Sep 5, 2024 | 41.8 | LiveCodeBench(01-09) | |
| Jun 7, 2024 | 35.7 | LiveCodeBench | |
| May 7, 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.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | | 47.6 | LiveCodeBench CodeGen, pass@1, Table 6 | Capabilities |
| Oct 15, 2026 | | 29.8 | LiveCodeBench CodeGen, pass@1, Table 6 | Capabilities |
| Sep 10, 2026 | | LiveCodeBench (Pass@1) vs reasoning effort, chart only, text gives +2.6 points from effort 25 to 100 (Figure 12) | Capabilities | |
| Mar 3, 2026 | | 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 | | 83.5 | LiveCodeBench v3, Avg@10, Final Think 3.0 column (Table 14) | Capabilities |
| Dec 15, 2025 | | 83.3 | LiveCodeBench v3, Avg@10 (Tables 1 and 14) | Capabilities |
| Dec 1, 2025 | | 88.7 | LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT), DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale (Table 3) | Capabilities |
| Nov 6, 2025 | | LiveCodeBench (07/24 to 12/24), reasoning on, SFT stage 4 (Table 6) | Capabilities | |
| Aug 20, 2025 | | LiveCodeBench, NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 (Figure 1). Section 3.3 names the 07/24 to 12/24 window | Capabilities | |
| Jul 7, 2025 | | LiveCodeBench, pass@1, 1/1/2025-5/1/2025 window (Table 3) | Capabilities | |
| Jul 7, 2025 | | LiveCodeBench, pass@1, 1/1/2025-5/1/2025 window (Table 3) | Capabilities | |
| Jun 26, 2025 | | 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 | | LiveCodeBench (2410 to 2502) pass@1 (Table 7) | Capabilities | |
| Apr 5, 2025 | | LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025), 0-shot, pass@1, instruction tuned (Instruction tuned models table) | Capabilities | |
| Apr 5, 2025 | | LiveCodeBench (10/01/2024-02/01/2025), 0-shot, pass@1, instruction tuned (Instruction tuned models table) | Capabilities | |
| Mar 26, 2025 | | 24.6 | LiveCodeBench2305-2409 (Table 1) | Capabilities |
| Mar 25, 2025 | | 12.6 | LiveCodeBench, IT, zero-shot (Table 6). Table 18 gives 23.0 | Capabilities |
| Mar 25, 2025 | | 29.7 | LiveCodeBench, IT, zero-shot (Table 6). Table 18 gives 39.0 | Capabilities |
| Mar 25, 2025 | | 1.9 | LiveCodeBench, IT, zero-shot (Table 6). Table 18 gives 5.0 | Capabilities |
| Mar 25, 2025 | | 24.6 | LiveCodeBench, IT, zero-shot (Table 6). Table 18 gives 32.0 | Capabilities |
| Mar 3, 2025 | | 19.9 | LCB (05-09-2024) (Table 8) | Capabilities |
| Jan 26, 2025 | | 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 | | 57.2 | LiveCodeBench pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B (Table 15) | Capabilities |
| Jan 20, 2025 | | 53.1 | LiveCodeBench pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B (Table 15) | Capabilities |
| Jan 20, 2025 | | 16.9 | LiveCodeBench pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B (Table 15) | Capabilities |
| Jan 20, 2025 | | 57.5 | LiveCodeBench pass@1, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B (Table 15) | Capabilities |
| Dec 26, 2024 | | LiveCodeBench (Pass@1-COT), questions Aug to Nov 2024, DeepSeek-V3 (Table 6). Plain Pass@1 37.6 | Capabilities | |
| Dec 19, 2024 | | 28.7 | LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Table 8) | Capabilities |
| Dec 19, 2024 | | 55.5 | LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Table 6) | Capabilities |
| Dec 19, 2024 | | 51.2 | LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct (Table 7) | Capabilities |
| Dec 19, 2024 | | 42.6 | LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct (Table 7) | Capabilities |
| Dec 19, 2024 | | 37.8 | LiveCodeBench, Qwen2.5-Turbo (Table 7) | Capabilities |
| Jul 15, 2024 | | 35.7 | LiveCodeBench v1, Qwen2-72B-Instruct (Table 6) | Capabilities |
| May 7, 2024 | | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| | 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.
- 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.
Source: Labs’ model cards
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