Reasoning benchmark

# HellaSwag leaderboard

> HellaSwag results for 29 AI models, led by GPT-4 at 95.3%. What the benchmark measures, who runs it, and a source for every score.
- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/benchmarks/hellaswag
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Title: HellaSwag Leaderboard (October 2026): Scores by Model

As of October 2026, GPT-4 has the highest published HellaSwag score on Noometry at 95.3%, out of 29 models with results.

Last verified October 10, 2026

## About HellaSwag

Commonsense sentence completion with adversarially filtered wrong endings.

- **Category:** [Reasoning](https://noometry.com/best/reasoning)
- **Introduced:** 2019
- **Format:** Multiple choice
- **Unit:** Percent (random guessing ≈ 25%)
- **Official site:** [rowanzellers.com](https://rowanzellers.com/hellaswag/)

## Top 15 models

Top models on HellaSwag

1.  GPT-4 95.3%
2.  GPT-4 95.3%
3.  Llama 3.1-405B 89.2%
4.  Falcon-180B 89%
5.  DeepSeek-V3 88.9%
6.  DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) 87.1%
7.  Mixtral 8x7B 86.7%
8.  Llama 2-70B 85.3%
9.  Falcon-40B 85.3%
10.  Qwen2.5 72B Instruct 84.8%
11.  Qwen2.5-Coder-32B 83%
12.  Falcon 2 11B 82.9%
13.  Nemotron-4 15B 82.4%
14.  phi-3-medium 14B 82.4%
15.  Gemma 7B 82.2%
16.  7580859095100

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## All results

HellaSwag results by model
| # | Model | Provider | Score | Setting | Source | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [GPT-4](https://noometry.com/models/gpt-4) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 95.3% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 2 | [GPT-4](https://noometry.com/models/gpt-4) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 95.3% |  | [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) | 89.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 4 | [Falcon-180B](https://noometry.com/models/falcon-180b) |  [![](/logos/tii.svg) Technology Innovation Institute](https://noometry.com/providers/tii) | 89% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 5 | [DeepSeek-V3](https://noometry.com/models/deepseek-v3) |  [![](/logos/deepseek.svg) DeepSeek](https://noometry.com/providers/deepseek) | 88.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 6 | [DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)](https://noometry.com/models/deepseek-v2) |  [![](/logos/deepseek.svg) DeepSeek](https://noometry.com/providers/deepseek) | 87.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 7 | [Mixtral 8x7B](https://noometry.com/models/mixtral-8x7b) |  [![](/logos/mistral.svg) Mistral AI](https://noometry.com/providers/mistral) | 86.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 8 | [Llama 2-70B](https://noometry.com/models/llama-2-70b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 85.3% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 9 | [Falcon-40B](https://noometry.com/models/falcon-40b) |  [![](/logos/tii.svg) Technology Innovation Institute](https://noometry.com/providers/tii) | 85.3% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 10 | [Qwen2.5 72B Instruct](https://noometry.com/models/qwen2-5-72b-instruct) |  [![](/logos/alibaba.svg) Alibaba (Qwen)](https://noometry.com/providers/alibaba) | 84.8% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 11 | [Qwen2.5-Coder-32B](https://noometry.com/models/qwen2-5-coder-32b) |  [![](/logos/alibaba.svg) Alibaba (Qwen)](https://noometry.com/providers/alibaba) | 83% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 12 | [Falcon 2 11B](https://noometry.com/models/falcon-2-11b) |  [![](/logos/tii.svg) Technology Innovation Institute](https://noometry.com/providers/tii) | 82.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 13 | [Nemotron-4 15B](https://noometry.com/models/nemotron-4-15b) |  [![](/logos/nvidia.svg) NVIDIA](https://noometry.com/providers/nvidia) | 82.4% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 14 | [phi-3-medium 14B](https://noometry.com/models/phi-3-medium-14b) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 82.4% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 15 | [Gemma 7B](https://noometry.com/models/gemma-7b) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 82.2% |  | [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) | 81% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 17 | [Llama 2-13B](https://noometry.com/models/llama-2-13b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 80.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 18 | [Llama 13b](https://noometry.com/models/llama-13b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 79.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 19 | [Falcon-7B](https://noometry.com/models/falcon-7b) |  [![](/logos/tii.svg) Technology Innovation Institute](https://noometry.com/providers/tii) | 78.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 20 | [Llama 2-7B](https://noometry.com/models/llama-2-7b) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 77.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 21 | [Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct](https://noometry.com/models/phi-3-small-8k-instruct) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 77% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 22 | [Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)](https://noometry.com/models/qwen2-5-coder) |  [![](/logos/alibaba.svg) Alibaba (Qwen)](https://noometry.com/providers/alibaba) | 76.8% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 23 | [Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct](https://noometry.com/models/phi-3-mini-4k-instruct) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 76.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 24 | [Yi 6B](https://noometry.com/models/yi-6b) | [01.AI](https://noometry.com/providers/01-ai) | 74.4% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 25 | [INTELLECT-1](https://noometry.com/models/intellect-1) |  [![](/logos/huggingface.svg) Hugging Face](https://noometry.com/providers/huggingface) | 71.4% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 26 | [Gemma 2B](https://noometry.com/models/gemma-2b) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 71.4% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 27 | [Dolly 2.0-12b](https://noometry.com/models/dolly-2-0-12b) |  [![](/logos/databricks.svg) Databricks](https://noometry.com/providers/databricks) | 70.8% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 28 | [Phi-2](https://noometry.com/models/phi-2) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 53.6% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 29 | [Phi-1.5](https://noometry.com/models/phi-1-5) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 47.6% | 5 | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |

## Compare the leaders

-   [GPT-4 vs GPT-4](https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-vs-gpt-4)
-   [GPT-4 vs Llama 3.1-405B](https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-vs-llama-3-1-405b)
-   [GPT-4 vs Falcon-180B](https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-gpt-4)
-   [GPT-4 vs DeepSeek-V3](https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v3-vs-gpt-4)
-   [GPT-4 vs Llama 3.1-405B](https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4-vs-llama-3-1-405b)
-   [GPT-4 vs Falcon-180B](https://noometry.com/compare/falcon-180b-vs-gpt-4)

## 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 HellaSwag measure?

Commonsense sentence completion with adversarially filtered wrong endings.

### Which model has the highest HellaSwag score?

As of October 2026, GPT-4 has the highest published HellaSwag score on Noometry at 95.3%, out of 29 models with results.

### What is the best open-weight model on HellaSwag?

Llama 3.1-405B has the highest HellaSwag accuracy among open-weight models at 89.2%, ranking 3 of 29 overall.

### Cite this page

Noometry. (2026). HellaSwag leaderboard. Retrieved October 10, 2026, from https://noometry.com/benchmarks/hellaswag

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