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Qwen3 8B

Alibaba · 8.2B · open weights

Strongest in Factual grounding (#9 of 101), weakest in Fairness (#290 of 300). Above par in 4 of 10 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Sonnet 5 and Grok 4.7 and ahead of Nova Pro and Nova Micro.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Agents45.2#179/268
Tool use53.4#29/81
Knowledge work36.7#152/178
Safety46.4#268/337
Factual grounding63.1#9/101
Toxicity avoidance56.4#62/272
Secure code53.2#129/274
Jailbreak resistance34.5#237/272
Harm refusal42.2#274/300
Fairness37.2#290/300

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Qwen3 8B, left for the other.

OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
OLMo 7B Instruct Hfwon 5 · lost 1
RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 5 · lost 1
PowerMoE 3Bwon 5 · lost 1
Phi 2won 5 · lost 1
PowerLM 3Bwon 5 · lost 1
LFM2 350Mwon 5 · lost 1
Laguna Xs 2.1won 5 · lost 1
OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1
DeepSeek R1won 7 · lost 2
Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Grok 3won 5 · lost 2
Jamba Mini 1.7won 5 · lost 2
Jamba Large 1.7won 5 · lost 2
Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 4 · lost 2
DBRX Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Qwen2.5 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Gemma 7B Itwon 4 · lost 2
GLM-4 9B Chatwon 4 · lost 2
Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 4 · lost 2
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Qwen2 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Laguna S 2.1won 4 · lost 2
Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 4 · lost 2
GPT-3.5 Turbowon 4 · lost 2
Mimo V2.6 Flashwon 4 · lost 2
DeepSeek V3won 6 · lost 3
Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 6 · lost 3
Command Awon 6 · lost 3
Command R7Bwon 5 · lost 3
Grok 4won 5 · lost 3
Gemma 3 27B Itwon 6 · lost 4
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 6 · lost 4
Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 6 · lost 4
Command R Pluswon 4 · lost 3
Gemma 3 4B Itwon 5 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 4
Nova Microwon 5 · lost 4
Nova Prowon 5 · lost 4
SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 3 · lost 3
Smollm2 1.7B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7b Dpowon 3 · lost 3
SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 3 · lost 3
CodeLlama 7B Instruct Hfwon 3 · lost 3
Gemma 2B Itwon 3 · lost 3
Magistral Smallwon 3 · lost 3
Aya 23 8Bwon 3 · lost 3
SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 3 · lost 3
Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 3 · lost 3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 3 · lost 3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bwon 3 · lost 3
H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 3 · lost 3
Zephyr 7B Betawon 3 · lost 3
Magistral Mediumwon 3 · lost 3
Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 3 · lost 3
Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 3 · lost 3
LFM2 700Mwon 3 · lost 3
SmolLM 360M Instructwon 3 · lost 3
NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 3 · lost 3
Open Codestral Mambawon 3 · lost 3
Gemma 4 E2Bwon 4 · lost 4
Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 4 · lost 4
Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 4 · lost 4
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 4 · lost 4
Gemma 3 12B Itwon 5 · lost 5
Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 4 · lost 5
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 4 · lost 5
Mistral Smallwon 4 · lost 5
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 4 · lost 5
Nova Litewon 3 · lost 4
Gemma 4 31Bwon 4 · lost 6
Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
O3 Miniwon 3 · lost 5
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 3 · lost 5
Grok Build 0.1won 3 · lost 5
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 3 · lost 5
Open Mixtral 8x7bwon 2 · lost 4
Jamba 1.5 Largewon 2 · lost 4
Gemma 2 9B Itwon 2 · lost 4
Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2won 2 · lost 4
Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 2 · lost 4
Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
LFM2 1.2Bwon 2 · lost 4
Aya 23 35Bwon 2 · lost 4
Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 2 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3p1won 2 · lost 4
QwQ 32Bwon 2 · lost 4
Jamba 1.6 Largewon 2 · lost 4
GLM-4.5won 2 · lost 4
Jamba Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Sarvam 1won 2 · lost 4
SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 2 · lost 4
DeepSeek Reasonerwon 2 · lost 4
Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Mistral Small 24B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Komodo 7B Basewon 2 · lost 4
WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 2 · lost 4
Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Gemini 2.0 Flash Litewon 2 · lost 4
Open Mixtral 8x22bwon 2 · lost 4
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 2 · lost 4
Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (405B)won 2 · lost 4
Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 2 · lost 4
Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 2 · lost 4
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (7B)won 2 · lost 4
Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 2 · lost 4
Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Llama 3 70B Chat HFwon 2 · lost 4
Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 2 · lost 4
Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Krutrim 2 Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 2 · lost 4
EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 2 · lost 4
Llama 3 8B Chat Hfwon 2 · lost 4
Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 2 · lost 4
Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct Turbowon 2 · lost 4
Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (72B)won 2 · lost 4
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingwon 2 · lost 4
Gemma 4 E4Bwon 3 · lost 6
Mistral Largewon 3 · lost 6
Kimi K2.6won 3 · lost 6
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 3 · lost 6
MiniMax M3won 3 · lost 6
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 3 · lost 6
Llama 3.3 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 2 · lost 5
Qwen3.5 27Bwon 2 · lost 5
Claude Opus 4won 2 · lost 5
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 2 · lost 5
GPT-4o Miniwon 2 · lost 6
GPT-4won 2 · lost 6
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 2 · lost 6
GPT OSS 20Bwon 2 · lost 6
Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 6
Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 6
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 2 · lost 6
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 6
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 2 · lost 6
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 2 · lost 6
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 2 · lost 6
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 2 · lost 7
Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 2 · lost 7
GPT OSS 120Bwon 2 · lost 7
GPT-5.1won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5won 2 · lost 7
Inklingwon 2 · lost 7
Kimi K2.5won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5 Nanowon 2 · lost 7
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 7
GPT-5.4won 2 · lost 7
O4 Miniwon 2 · lost 7
GPT-4.1won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5.2won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5.5won 2 · lost 7
Kimi K2won 2 · lost 7
GLM-5.2won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5.6 Solwon 2 · lost 7
GPT-6 Solwon 2 · lost 7
GPT-5 Miniwon 2 · lost 8
Claude Haiku 4.5won 2 · lost 8
DeepSeek V3.2won 2 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 2 · lost 8
GLM-4.6won 2 · lost 8
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 1 · lost 5
Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 1 · lost 5
Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 1 · lost 5
Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Gemma 2 2B Itwon 1 · lost 5
IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 1 · lost 5
Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Fuguwon 1 · lost 5
Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (8B)won 1 · lost 5
Starling Lm 7B Betawon 1 · lost 5
Dolphin 2.5 Mixtral 8x7bwon 1 · lost 5
Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
DeepSeek Chatwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 1 · lost 5
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 1 · lost 5
GLM-5 Turbowon 1 · lost 5
Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Sarvam 30Bwon 1 · lost 5
Claude 3 Haikuwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen3 Vl 235B A22B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Smaug Llama 3 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
GPT-5.6 Astrawon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3 Small 128k Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 1 · lost 5
GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 1 · lost 5
Apertus 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3 Small 8k Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3 Mini 128k Instructwon 1 · lost 5
K2 Chatwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen Maxwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)won 1 · lost 5
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct HFwon 1 · lost 5
Titan Text Express V1won 1 · lost 5
Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 1 · lost 5
Fugu Ultra V2won 1 · lost 5
Nova Premierwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 1 · lost 5
O1 Miniwon 1 · lost 5
O1won 1 · lost 5
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 5
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 1 · lost 5
Gemini 3 Prowon 1 · lost 5
C4ai Aya Expanse 32Bwon 1 · lost 6
C4ai Aya Expanse 8Bwon 1 · lost 6
Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 1 · lost 6
GPT-4owon 1 · lost 6
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 6
Gemma 4 12Bwon 1 · lost 7
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 1 · lost 7
Grok 4.3won 1 · lost 7
O3won 1 · lost 7
Kimi K2.7 Codewon 1 · lost 7
Hy3won 1 · lost 7
GLM-5.1won 1 · lost 7
Grok 4.5won 1 · lost 7
Muse Spark 1.1won 1 · lost 7
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 1 · lost 7
GPT-6 Lunawon 1 · lost 7
Grok 4.6won 1 · lost 7
Mimo V2.6 Prowon 1 · lost 7
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 1 · lost 7
Claude Opus 5won 1 · lost 7
Claude Opus 5.5won 1 · lost 7
Phi 4won 1 · lost 8
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 1 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 4won 1 · lost 8
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 1 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 8
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 1 · lost 8
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 1 · lost 8
Apertus 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen2 57B A14B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
SeaLLM 7B V2won 0 · lost 6
Granite 4.0 H Microwon 0 · lost 6
Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Llama 2 70B Chat Hfwon 0 · lost 6
Llama 2 13B Chat Hfwon 0 · lost 6
Llama 2 7B Chat Hfwon 0 · lost 6
Sarvam 105Bwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen2 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Claude 3 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 6
Cogito 671B V2 P1won 0 · lost 6
Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Gemma 2 27B Itwon 0 · lost 6
Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 0 · lost 6
Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 0 · lost 6
GPT-4 Turbowon 0 · lost 6
Mistral NeMo Minitron 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
MiniMax M2won 0 · lost 6
Claude 3 Opuswon 0 · lost 6
MiniMax M2.7won 0 · lost 8
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 8
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 9

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

4 publications, 9 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
GDPval-AA -63
BFCL ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
BFCL v4 42.57%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-09-26
Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 25.9%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 37.8%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 33%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 1.8%Enkrypt · Bias risk 97.7%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 27.1%
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
Vectara · Factual consistency 95.2%

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