HellaSwag

    🏆 Leaderboard

    As of August 31, 2026, Claude 3 Opus is #1 for HellaSwag at 95.4%. Ranked by HellaSwag, a sentence-completion quiz, not a writing sample. 29 models in this index have a published HellaSwag score. HellaSwag leaderboard with live API prices. Tests commonsense natural language inference — given a scenario, the model predicts the most likely continuation.

    Updated August 31, 2026345 models36 providers

    HellaSwag vs price

    29 models. Left is cheaper. Up is a higher score. The line is the best score you can buy at each price — a dot under it is a worse deal than something on the line.

    Best score at each price#1 on this board
    Claude 3 Opus
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    95.4%$90.00
    GPT-4
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    95.3%$90.00
    GPT-4o
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    95%$12.50
    Gemini 1.5 Pro
    Google · Proprietary
    93.3%$12.50
    Gemini 2.5 Pro
    Google · Proprietary
    90.9%$11.25
    MiMo-V2.5-ProOSS
    Xiaomi · Open Source
    89.8%$1.30
    Claude 3 Sonnet
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    89%$18.00
    DeepSeek-V3OSS
    DeepSeek · Open Source
    88.9%$1.37
    Command R+OSS
    Cohere · Open Source
    88.6%$1.25
    Hermes 3 70BOSS
    Nous Research · Open Source
    88.2%$1.75
    Qwen2 72B InstructOSS
    Qwen · Open Source
    87.6%$0.75
    Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
    Google · Proprietary
    87.1%$0.37
    Gemini 1.5 Flash
    Google · Proprietary
    86.5%$0.75
    Gemma 2 27BOSS
    Google · Open Source · via OpenRouter
    86.4%$1.30
    Claude 3 Haiku
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    85.9%$1.50
    Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructOSS
    NVIDIA · Open Source
    85.6%$2.40
    GPT-3.5 Turbo
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    85.5%$2.00
    Qwen2.5 32B InstructOSS
    Qwen · Open Source
    85.2%$3.50
    Phi-3.5-MoE-instructOSS
    Microsoft · Open Source
    83.8%$0.21
    Mistral NeMo InstructOSS
    Mistral · Open Source · via Mistral AI
    83.5%$0.30
    Qwen2.5-Coder 32B InstructOSS
    Qwen · Open Source
    83%$0.18
    Gemma 2 9BOSS
    Google · Open Source · via Groq
    81.9%$0.40
    Qwen2.5-Coder 7B InstructOSS
    Qwen · Open Source
    76.8%$0.60
    Llama 3.2 3B InstructOSS
    Meta · Open Source
    69.8%$0.03lowest
    Phi-3.5-mini-instructOSS
    Microsoft · Open Source
    69.4%$0.20
    Phi 4 MiniOSS
    Microsoft · Open Source · via OpenRouter
    69.1%$0.43
    Gemini 2.5 Flash
    Google · Proprietary
    50.4%$2.80
    ERNIE 4.5
    Baidu · Proprietary
    33%$4.40
    GLM-4.7OSS
    Z AI · Open Source
    24.8%$2.80
    ChatGPT-4o Latest
    OpenAI · Proprietary
    $12.50
    Claude 3.5 Haiku
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $4.80
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $18.00
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $18.00
    Claude 3.7 Sonnet
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $18.00
    Claude Fable 5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $60.00
    Claude Haiku 4.5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $6.00
    Claude Mythos 5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $60.00
    Claude Mythos Preview
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $60.00
    Claude Opus 4
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $90.00
    Claude Opus 4.1
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $90.00
    Claude Opus 4.5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Opus 4.6
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Opus 4.7
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Opus 4.8
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Opus 5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $30.00
    Claude Sonnet 4
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $18.00
    Claude Sonnet 4.5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $18.00
    Claude Sonnet 4.6
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $18.00
    Claude Sonnet 5
    Anthropic · Proprietary
    $12.00
    Codestral-22BOSS
    Mistral · Open Source · via Mistral AI
    $1.20
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    All Large Language Models

    345 models across 36 providers. Search or jump to a lab — every model page stays linked here.

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    1 models

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    1 models

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    1 models

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    2 models

    Nous Research

    1 models

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    1 models

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    2 models

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    1 models

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    1 models

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    1 models

    Upstage

    1 models

    Which model leads HellaSwag right now?

    As of August 31, 2026, Claude 3 Opus by Anthropic is #1 for HellaSwag at 95.4%. Ranked by HellaSwag, a sentence-completion quiz, not a writing sample. This board also tracks HellaSwag. Next on the same board: GPT-4 and GPT-4o. This hellaswag leaderboard ranks models by HellaSwag. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.

    Sources: OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)

    Top 8 for hellaswag. Ranked by HellaSwag, a sentence-completion quiz, not a writing sample. Input and output are dollars per million tokens.
    RankModelHellaSwagInput /MOutput /M
    1Claude 3 Opus95.4%$15.00$75.00
    2GPT-495.3%$30.00$60.00
    3GPT-4o95%$2.50$10.00
    4Gemini 1.5 Pro93.3%$2.50$10.00
    5Gemini 2.5 Pro90.9%$1.25$10.00
    6MiMo-V2.5-Pro89.8%$0.43$0.87
    7Claude 3 Sonnet89%$3.00$15.00
    8DeepSeek-V388.9%$0.27$1.10

    HellaSwag FAQ

    Who ranks #1 on the HellaSwag leaderboard?

    As of August 31, 2026, Claude 3 Opus by Anthropic ranks #1 on HellaSwag at 95.4%. API pricing is $15.00/M input and $75.00/M output.

    What are the top models on HellaSwag?

    The current HellaSwag ranking as of August 31, 2026 is 1. Claude 3 Opus at 95.4%; 2. GPT-4 at 95.3%; 3. GPT-4o at 95%.

    Which hellaswag model is the cheapest?

    Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is the cheapest scored model on this hellaswag leaderboard at $0.01/M input and $0.02/M output ($0.03 blended). Claude 3 Opus still leads HellaSwag at 95.4%.

    Should I always pick the #1 HellaSwag model?

    Not automatically. Claude 3 Opus leads HellaSwag, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh HellaSwag against input/output price, context window, and related evals.

    How often is the HellaSwag leaderboard updated?

    Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 31, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.

    What is HellaSwag?

    Tests commonsense natural language inference — given a scenario, the model predicts the most likely continuation. This page ranks models that have published a HellaSwag score, with live API token prices on the same row.

    Where is the HellaSwag leaderboard?

    This page is the HellaSwag leaderboard. Models are sorted by HellaSwag, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.

    How is this HellaSwag ranking different from the official board?

    Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published HellaSwag score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.