Reasoning benchmark

# BIG-Bench Hard leaderboard

> BIG-Bench Hard results for 27 AI models, led by Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) at 89.2%. What the benchmark measures, who runs it, and a source for every score.
- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/benchmarks/bbh
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Title: BIG-Bench Hard Leaderboard (October 2026): Scores by Model

As of October 2026, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has the highest published BIG-Bench Hard score on Noometry at 89.2%, out of 27 models with results.

Last verified October 10, 2026

## About BIG-Bench Hard

23 challenging BIG-Bench tasks where early models fell short of human raters.

- **Category:** [Reasoning](https://noometry.com/best/reasoning)
- **Introduced:** 2022
- **Format:** Mixed
- **Unit:** Percent (random guessing ≈ 25%)
- **Official site:** [github.com](https://github.com/suzgunmirac/BIG-Bench-Hard)

## Top 15 models

Top models on BIG-Bench Hard

1.  Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) 89.2%
2.  DeepSeek-V3 87.5%
3.  Llama 3.1-405B 82.9%
4.  phi-3-medium 14B 81.4%
5.  Qwen2.5 72B Instruct 79.8%
6.  Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct 79.1%
7.  DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 78.8%
8.  GPT-4 75.1%
9.  Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct 71.7%
10.  Yi-34B 71.7%
11.  Llama 2-70B 64.9%
12.  GPT-3.5-turbo 61.6%
13.  Phi-2 59.4%
14.  Nemotron-4 15B 58.7%
15.  Llama 2-13B 58.2%
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## All results

BIG-Bench Hard results by model
| # | Model | Provider | Score | Setting | Source | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)](https://noometry.com/models/gemini-1-5-pro) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 89.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 2 | [DeepSeek-V3](https://noometry.com/models/deepseek-v3) |  [![](/logos/deepseek.svg) DeepSeek](https://noometry.com/providers/deepseek) | 87.5% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 3 | [Llama 3.1-405B](https://noometry.com/models/llama-3-1-405b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 82.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 4 | [phi-3-medium 14B](https://noometry.com/models/phi-3-medium-14b) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 81.4% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 5 | [Qwen2.5 72B Instruct](https://noometry.com/models/qwen2-5-72b-instruct) |  [![](/logos/alibaba.svg) Alibaba (Qwen)](https://noometry.com/providers/alibaba) | 79.8% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 6 | [Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct](https://noometry.com/models/phi-3-small-8k-instruct) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 79.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 7 | [DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)](https://noometry.com/models/deepseek-v2) |  [![](/logos/deepseek.svg) DeepSeek](https://noometry.com/providers/deepseek) | 78.8% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 8 | [GPT-4](https://noometry.com/models/gpt-4) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 75.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 9 | [Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct](https://noometry.com/models/phi-3-mini-4k-instruct) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 71.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 10 | [Yi-34B](https://noometry.com/models/yi-34b) | [01.AI](https://noometry.com/providers/01-ai) | 71.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 11 | [Llama 2-70B](https://noometry.com/models/llama-2-70b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 64.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 12 | [GPT-3.5-turbo](https://noometry.com/models/gpt-3-5-turbo) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 61.6% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 13 | [Phi-2](https://noometry.com/models/phi-2) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 59.4% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 14 | [Nemotron-4 15B](https://noometry.com/models/nemotron-4-15b) |  [![](/logos/nvidia.svg) NVIDIA](https://noometry.com/providers/nvidia) | 58.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 15 | [Llama 2-13B](https://noometry.com/models/llama-2-13b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 58.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 16 | [Mistral 7B](https://noometry.com/models/mistral-7b) |  [![](/logos/mistral.svg) Mistral AI](https://noometry.com/providers/mistral) | 56.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 17 | [Gemma 7B](https://noometry.com/models/gemma-7b) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 55.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 18 | [Qwen-14B](https://noometry.com/models/qwen-14b) |  [![](/logos/alibaba.svg) Alibaba (Qwen)](https://noometry.com/providers/alibaba) | 55% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 19 | [Yi 6B](https://noometry.com/models/yi-6b) | [01.AI](https://noometry.com/providers/01-ai) | 47.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 20 | [Qwen-7B](https://noometry.com/models/qwen-7b) |  [![](/logos/alibaba.svg) Alibaba (Qwen)](https://noometry.com/providers/alibaba) | 45% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 21 | [Llama 2-34B](https://noometry.com/models/llama-2-34b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 44.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 22 | [Llama 2-7B](https://noometry.com/models/llama-2-7b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 39.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 23 | [Llama 13b](https://noometry.com/models/llama-13b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 37.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 24 | [Falcon-40B](https://noometry.com/models/falcon-40b) |  [![](/logos/tii.svg) Technology Innovation Institute](https://noometry.com/providers/tii) | 37.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 25 | [Gemma 2B](https://noometry.com/models/gemma-2b) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 35.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 26 | [INTELLECT-1](https://noometry.com/models/intellect-1) |  [![](/logos/huggingface.svg) Hugging Face](https://noometry.com/providers/huggingface) | 34.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 27 | [Falcon-7B](https://noometry.com/models/falcon-7b) |  [![](/logos/tii.svg) Technology Innovation Institute](https://noometry.com/providers/tii) | 28.8% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |

## Compare the leaders

-   [Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs DeepSeek-V3](https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v3-vs-gemini-1-5-pro)
-   [Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Llama 3.1-405B](https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-llama-3-1-405b)
-   [Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs phi-3-medium 14B](https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-phi-3-medium-14b)
-   [Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct](https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-qwen2-5-72b-instruct)
-   [DeepSeek-V3 vs Llama 3.1-405B](https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v3-vs-llama-3-1-405b)
-   [DeepSeek-V3 vs phi-3-medium 14B](https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v3-vs-phi-3-medium-14b)

## Other reasoning benchmarks

-   [ARC-AGI-2](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/arc-agi-2)
-   [SimpleBench](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/simplebench)
-   [Kagi LLM Benchmark](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/kagi-reasoning)
-   [NYT Connections (extended)](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/nyt-connections)
-   [ARC-AGI-1](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/arc-agi-1)
-   [CritPt](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/critpt)
-   [Chess Puzzles](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/chess-puzzles)
-   [EnigmaEval](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/enigmaeval)
-   [Thematic Generalization](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/thematic-generalization)
-   [LMArena Hard Prompts](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/arena-hard-prompts)
-   [EBR-Bench](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/ebr-bench)
-   [LiveBench Reasoning](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/livebench-reasoning)

## Frequently asked questions

### What does BIG-Bench Hard measure?

23 challenging BIG-Bench tasks where early models fell short of human raters.

### Which model has the highest BIG-Bench Hard score?

As of October 2026, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has the highest published BIG-Bench Hard score on Noometry at 89.2%, out of 27 models with results.

### What is the best open-weight model on BIG-Bench Hard?

DeepSeek-V3 has the highest BIG-Bench Hard accuracy among open-weight models at 87.5%, ranking 2 of 27 overall.

### Cite this page

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