Benchmark Almanac

MT-Bench-101

GPT-4 (snapshot unspecified) 8.86 tops its leaderboard Qwen-14B 7.82 leads the models we track
InternLM3-8B-Instruct 8.59 leads since January 2025
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Models hold 1,388 multi-turn dialogues with 4,208 turns across 13 tasks from a three-tier ability taxonomy. GPT-4 scores each turn from 1 to 10.

Not the original MT-Bench from LMSYS. Accepted at ACL 2024.

Released
February 2024
Kind
Multi-turn conversation
Level
Everyday
Scored
Graded by a model
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
Qwen-14B #213 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
January 2025, dropped before it saturated
Last model added
January 2025
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026

In the authors’ words

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has drastically enhanced dialogue systems. However, comprehensively evaluating the dialogue abilities of LLMs remains a challenge. Previous benchmarks have primarily focused on single-turn dialogues or provided coarse-grained and incomplete assessments of multi-turn dialogues, overlooking the complexity and fine-grained nuances of real-life dialogues. To address this issue, we introduce MT-Bench-101, specifically designed to evaluate the fine-grained abilities of LLMs in multi-turn dialogues. By conducting a detailed analysis of real multi-turn dialogue data, we construct a three-tier hierarchical ability taxonomy comprising 4208 turns across 1388 multi-turn dialogues in 13 distinct tasks. We then evaluate 21 popular LLMs based on MT-Bench-101, conducting comprehensive analyses from both ability and task perspectives and observing differing trends in LLMs performance across dialogue turns within various tasks. Further analysis indicates that neither utilizing common alignment techniques nor chat-specific designs has led to obvious enhancements in the multi-turn abilities of LLMs. Extensive case studies suggest that our designed tasks accurately assess the corresponding multi-turn abilities. The data and code are available at https://github.com/mtbench101/mt-bench-101.

Abstract of MT-Bench-101: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Multi-Turn Dialogues (arXiv:2402.14762, CC0)
18
Entries on its own leaderboard, 6 models we track
1
Launch post lists it, from 1 lab

GPT-4 (snapshot unspecified) tops the leaderboard with 8.86

Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders. The best model we track is Qwen-14B, at 7.82.

InternLM3-8B-Instruct leads with 8.59, 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 December 2023, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 GPT-4 (snapshot unspecified) 8.86
  2. 2 Yi-34B-Chat 8.10
  3. 3 GPT-3.5 (snapshot unspecified) 7.99
  4. 4 Qwen-14B 7.82
  5. 5 Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 7.38
  6. 6 Llama2-13B-Chat 7.15
  7. 7 Qwen-7B-Chat 7.12
  8. 8 Baichuan2-13B-Chat 7.00
  9. 9 InternLM2-Chat-20B-SFT 6.95
  10. 10 Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 6.95
  11. 11 Yi-6B-Chat 6.93
  12. 12 InternLM2-Chat-7B-SFT 6.69
  13. 13 Llama2-7B-Chat 6.53
  14. 14 ChatGLM3-6B 6.47
  15. 15 Vicuna-13B-v1.5 6.37
  16. 16 Baize-13B-v2 6.12
  17. 17 chatglm2-6b 5.56
  18. 18 UltraLM-13B-v2.0 4.61

Source: Official MT-Bench-101 leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-4 (snapshot unspecified) 8.86 Official leaderboard
2 Yi-34B-Chat 8.10 Official leaderboard
3 GPT-3.5 (snapshot unspecified) 7.99 Official leaderboard
4 Qwen-14B 7.82 Sep 2023 Official leaderboard
5 Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 7.38 Official leaderboard
6 Llama2-13B-Chat 7.15 Official leaderboard
7 Qwen-7B-Chat 7.12 Official leaderboard
8 Baichuan2-13B-Chat 7.00 Sep 2023 Official leaderboard
9 InternLM2-Chat-20B-SFT 6.95 Official leaderboard
10 Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 6.95 Dec 2023 Official leaderboard
11 Yi-6B-Chat 6.93 Nov 2023 Official leaderboard
12 InternLM2-Chat-7B-SFT 6.69 Official leaderboard
13 Llama2-7B-Chat 6.53 Official leaderboard
14 ChatGLM3-6B 6.47 Oct 2023 Official leaderboard
15 Vicuna-13B-v1.5 6.37 Official leaderboard
16 Baize-13B-v2 6.12 Official leaderboard
17 chatglm2-6b 5.56 Jun 2023 Official leaderboard
18 UltraLM-13B-v2.0 4.61 Official leaderboard
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 InternLM3-8B-Instruct 8.59 Jan 2025 Lab model card
2 Qwen-14B 7.82 Sep 2023 Official leaderboard
3 Baichuan2-13B-Chat 7.00 Sep 2023 Official leaderboard
4 Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 6.95 Dec 2023 Official leaderboard
5 Yi-6B-Chat 6.93 Nov 2023 Official leaderboard
6 ChatGLM3-6B 6.47 Oct 2023 Official leaderboard
7 chatglm2-6b 5.56 Jun 2023 Official leaderboard

Labs report scores for 1 model in their cards. Switch the scores above to rank them together.

Number one over time 2 models have held number one with claims included since its release in February 2024

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

Qwen
Own leaderboard Not tested since Feb 2024
Qwen-14B 7.82

Source: Official MT-Bench-101 leaderboard

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
5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 2023 2024 2025 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 2023 2024 2025

Sources: Official MT-Bench-101 leaderboard and labs’ model cards

No launch post has listed it since January 2025

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.

Shanghai AI Lab
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
Jan 13, 2025 InternLM3-8B-Instruct 8.59 MT-Bench-101(Score 1-10)

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