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LiveCodeBench

Pass@1 on recent competitive-programming problems from LeetCode, AtCoder and Codeforces (Vals implementation).

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The best 15 · 34 models tested

Top 15 · best setting per model · 34 models, 38 results (25 independent)

Measured by independent testersIndependent Reported by the makerVendor-reported
LiveCodeBench leaderboard
Thinking levelSetting
1Qwen3.8 FlashQwen (Alibaba)91.9%Defaultthinking (setting not stated)Maker's own figureVendor-reportedQwen (Alibaba) ↗—26 Aug 2026
2DeepSeek V4 Flash (Preview, 0423)DeepSeek91.6%MaxThink MaxMaker's own figureVendor-reportedDeepSeek ↗—24 Apr 2026
3Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic90.5%Maxeffort=maxIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
4Qwen3.8 27BQwen (Alibaba)90.3%Defaultthinking (default reasoning_effort=xhigh; eval setting not stated)Maker's own figureVendor-reportedQwen (Alibaba) ↗—14 Aug 2026
5DeepSeek V4 Pro (Preview, 0423)DeepSeek89.8%HighThink HighMaker's own figureVendor-reportedDeepSeek ↗—24 Apr 2026
6Claude Fable 5Anthropic89.8%Maxeffort=maxIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
7Qwen3.7 PlusQwen (Alibaba)89.6%DefaultthinkingMaker's own figureVendor-reportedQwen (Alibaba) ↗—21 May 2026
8Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle (Gemini / DeepMind)89.5%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
9Claude Opus 5Anthropic89.0%Maxeffort=maxIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
10Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle (Gemini / DeepMind)88.7%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
11Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)Google (Gemini / DeepMind)88.5%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
12Grok 4.6SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)88.2%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
13Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle (Gemini / DeepMind)88.1%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
14GPT-5.2-CodexOpenAI88.0%DefaultIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
15Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Qwen (Alibaba)87.8%DefaultIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
16Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic87.8%Maxeffort=maxIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
17Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle (Gemini / DeepMind)87.6%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
18DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)DeepSeek87.5%Maxreasoning_effort=maxIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
19Grok 4.5SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)87.3%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
20GPT-5.3-CodexOpenAI87.3%Extra highreasoning_effort=xhighIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
21DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731)DeepSeek87.3%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
22Kimi K3Moonshot AI (Kimi)87.2%Maxreasoning_effort=maxIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
23Qwen3.7 MaxQwen (Alibaba)87.1%DefaultIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
24Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI (Kimi)86.8%DefaultIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
25GPT-5 MiniOpenAI86.6%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
26GPT-5.1OpenAI86.5%Highreasoning_effort=highIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
27Gemini 3 ProGoogle (Gemini / DeepMind)86.4%DefaultIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
28Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA86.0%DefaultIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
29Qwen3.6 PlusQwen (Alibaba)86.0%DefaultIndependent testIndependentVals.ai ↗—1 Sep 2026
30Qwen3.6 27BQwen (Alibaba)83.9%DefaultthinkingMaker's own figureVendor-reportedQwen (Alibaba) ↗—22 Apr 2026
31Gemma 4 31B ITGoogle (Gemini / DeepMind)80.0%DefaultThinkingMaker's own figureVendor-reportedGoogle ↗—2 Apr 2026
32Gemma 4 26B A4B ITGoogle (Gemini / DeepMind)77.1%DefaultThinkingMaker's own figureVendor-reportedGoogle ↗—2 Apr 2026
33Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGoogle (Gemini / DeepMind)72.0%HighMaker's own figureVendor-reportedGoogle ↗—3 Mar 2026
34Mistral Small 4Mistral AI63.6%HighMistral Small 4 - HighMaker's own figureVendor-reportedMistral AI ↗—16 Mar 2026