Instruction Following benchmark

# LiveBench Instruction Following leaderboard

> LiveBench Instruction Following results for 39 AI models, led by GPT-5.1 at 93.3%. What the benchmark measures, who runs it, and a source for every score.
- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/benchmarks/livebench-if
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Title: LiveBench Instruction Following Leaderboard (October 2026): Scores by Model

As of October 2026, GPT-5.1 has the highest published LiveBench Instruction Following score on Noometry at 93.3%, out of 39 models with results.

Last verified October 10, 2026

## About LiveBench Instruction Following

LiveBench tasks that require following detailed formatting and content instructions.

- **Category:** [Instruction Following](https://noometry.com/best/instruction-following)
- **Introduced:** 2024
- **Unit:** Percent (random guessing ≈ 0%)
- **Official site:** [livebench.ai](https://livebench.ai)

## Top 15 models

Top models on LiveBench Instruction Following

1.  GPT-5.1 93.3%
2.  Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) 85.8%
3.  o3-mini 84.4%
4.  Gemini 2.0 Pro 83.4%
5.  Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 82.7%
6.  QwQ-32B 81.8%
7.  o1 81.5%
8.  DeepSeek-V3 81.5%
9.  Claude 3.7 Sonnet 81.3%
10.  Gemini 2.5 Pro 80.6%
11.  DeepSeek-R1 80.5%
12.  Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite 78.3%
13.  Sonar 76.2%
14.  Qwen2.5-Max 75.3%
15.  Gemma 3 27B 74.9%
16.  707580859095

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## All results

LiveBench Instruction Following results by model
| # | Model | Provider | Score | Setting | Source | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [GPT-5.1](https://noometry.com/models/gpt-5-1) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 93.3% | high | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 2 | [Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)](https://noometry.com/models/gemini-2-0-flash) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 85.8% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 3 | [o3-mini](https://noometry.com/models/o3-mini) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 84.4% | high | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 4 | [Gemini 2.0 Pro](https://noometry.com/models/gemini-2-0-pro) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 83.4% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 5 | [Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct](https://noometry.com/models/llama-3-3-70b-instruct) |  [![](/logos/meta.svg) Meta](https://noometry.com/providers/meta) | 82.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 6 | [QwQ-32B](https://noometry.com/models/qwq-32b) |  [![](/logos/alibaba.svg) Alibaba (Qwen)](https://noometry.com/providers/alibaba) | 81.8% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 7 | [o1](https://noometry.com/models/o1) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 81.5% | high | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 8 | [DeepSeek-V3](https://noometry.com/models/deepseek-v3) |  [![](/logos/deepseek.svg) DeepSeek](https://noometry.com/providers/deepseek) | 81.5% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 9 | [Claude 3.7 Sonnet](https://noometry.com/models/claude-3-7-sonnet) | [Anthropic](https://noometry.com/providers/anthropic) | 81.3% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 10 | [Gemini 2.5 Pro](https://noometry.com/models/gemini-2-5-pro) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 80.6% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 11 | [DeepSeek-R1](https://noometry.com/models/deepseek-r1) |  [![](/logos/deepseek.svg) DeepSeek](https://noometry.com/providers/deepseek) | 80.5% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 12 | [Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite](https://noometry.com/models/gemini-2-0-flash-lite) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 78.3% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 13 | [Sonar](https://noometry.com/models/sonar) |  [![](/logos/perplexity.svg) Perplexity](https://noometry.com/providers/perplexity) | 76.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 14 | [Qwen2.5-Max](https://noometry.com/models/qwen2-5-max) |  [![](/logos/alibaba.svg) Alibaba (Qwen)](https://noometry.com/providers/alibaba) | 75.3% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 15 | [Gemma 3 27B](https://noometry.com/models/gemma-3-27b) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 74.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 16 | [GPT-4.5](https://noometry.com/models/gpt-4-5) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 72.3% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 17 | [DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B](https://noometry.com/models/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b) |  [![](/logos/deepseek.svg) DeepSeek](https://noometry.com/providers/deepseek) | 69.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 18 | [Grok-2 (Dec 2024)](https://noometry.com/models/grok-2) | [xAI](https://noometry.com/providers/xai) | 69.6% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 19 | [Claude 3.5 Sonnet](https://noometry.com/models/claude-3-5-sonnet) | [Anthropic](https://noometry.com/providers/anthropic) | 69.3% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 20 | [GPT-4o](https://noometry.com/models/gpt-4o) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 68.6% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 21 | [Mistral Large](https://noometry.com/models/mistral-large) |  [![](/logos/mistral.svg) Mistral AI](https://noometry.com/providers/mistral) | 67.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 22 | [Amazon Nova Pro](https://noometry.com/models/amazon-nova-pro) | [Amazon](https://noometry.com/providers/amazon) | 67.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 23 | [o1-mini](https://noometry.com/models/o1-mini) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 65.4% | medium | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 24 | [Claude 3 Opus](https://noometry.com/models/claude-3-opus) | [Anthropic](https://noometry.com/providers/anthropic) | 63.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 25 | [Mistral Small](https://noometry.com/models/mistral-small) |  [![](/logos/mistral.svg) Mistral AI](https://noometry.com/providers/mistral) | 63.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 26 | [Claude 3.5 Haiku](https://noometry.com/models/claude-3-5-haiku) | [Anthropic](https://noometry.com/providers/anthropic) | 61.9% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 27 | [OLMo 2 Furious 13B](https://noometry.com/models/olmo-2-furious-13b) |  [![](/logos/ai2.svg) Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)](https://noometry.com/providers/ai2) | 60.6% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 28 | [Qwen2.5-Coder-32B](https://noometry.com/models/qwen2-5-coder-32b) |  [![](/logos/alibaba.svg) Alibaba (Qwen)](https://noometry.com/providers/alibaba) | 58.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 29 | [Phi-4](https://noometry.com/models/phi-4) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 58.4% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 30 | [Gemma 2 27B](https://noometry.com/models/gemma-2-27b) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 58.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 31 | [Command R+](https://noometry.com/models/command-r-plus) |  [![](/logos/cohere.svg) Cohere](https://noometry.com/providers/cohere) | 57.6% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 32 | [GPT-4o mini](https://noometry.com/models/gpt-4o-mini) | [OpenAI](https://noometry.com/providers/openai) | 56.8% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 33 | [DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B](https://noometry.com/models/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b) |  [![](/logos/deepseek.svg) DeepSeek](https://noometry.com/providers/deepseek) | 55.7% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 34 | [Command R](https://noometry.com/models/command-r) |  [![](/logos/cohere.svg) Cohere](https://noometry.com/providers/cohere) | 55.6% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 35 | [Amazon Nova Lite](https://noometry.com/models/amazon-nova-lite) | [Amazon](https://noometry.com/providers/amazon) | 54.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 36 | [Gemma 2 9B](https://noometry.com/models/gemma-2-9b) |  [![](/logos/google.svg) Google](https://noometry.com/providers/google) | 52.6% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 37 | [Amazon Nova Micro](https://noometry.com/models/amazon-nova-micro) | [Amazon](https://noometry.com/providers/amazon) | 48% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 38 | [Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct](https://noometry.com/models/phi-3-small-8k-instruct) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 47.2% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |
| 39 | [Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct](https://noometry.com/models/phi-3-mini-4k-instruct) |  [![](/logos/microsoft.svg) Microsoft](https://noometry.com/providers/microsoft) | 39.1% |  | [Epoch AI](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks) |  |

## Compare the leaders

-   [GPT-5.1 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)](https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-vs-gpt-5-1)
-   [GPT-5.1 vs o3-mini](https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-1-vs-o3-mini)
-   [GPT-5.1 vs Gemini 2.0 Pro](https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-pro-vs-gpt-5-1)
-   [GPT-5.1 vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct](https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-5-1-vs-llama-3-3-70b-instruct)
-   [Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs o3-mini](https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-vs-o3-mini)
-   [Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemini 2.0 Pro](https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-vs-gemini-2-0-pro)

## Other instruction following benchmarks

-   [LMArena Instruction Following](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/arena-instruction-following)
-   [IFEval](https://noometry.com/benchmarks/ifeval)

## Frequently asked questions

### What does LiveBench Instruction Following measure?

LiveBench tasks that require following detailed formatting and content instructions.

### Which model has the highest LiveBench Instruction Following score?

As of October 2026, GPT-5.1 has the highest published LiveBench Instruction Following score on Noometry at 93.3%, out of 39 models with results.

### What is the best open-weight model on LiveBench Instruction Following?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has the highest LiveBench Instruction Following accuracy among open-weight models at 82.7%, ranking 5 of 39 overall.

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