C-Eval
C-Eval is a comprehensive Chinese evaluation suite designed to assess advanced knowledge and reasoning abilities of foundation models in a Chinese context. It comprises 13,948 multiple-choice questions across 52 diverse disciplines spanning humanities, science, and engineering, with four difficulty levels: middle school, high school, college, and professional. The benchmark includes C-Eval Hard, a subset of very challenging subjects requiring advanced reasoning abilities.
Qwen3.6 Plus from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the C-Eval leaderboard with a score of 0.933 across 17 evaluated AI models.
Qwen3.6 Plus leads with 93.3%, followed by Qwen3.5-397B-A17B at 93.0% and 
Kimi K2 Base at 92.5%.
Progress Over Time
Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on C-Eval
C-Eval Leaderboard
| Context | Cost | License | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | — | 1.0M | $0.50 / $3.00 | ||
| 2 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 397B | 262K | $0.60 / $3.60 | ||
| 3 | Moonshot AI | 1.0T | — | — | ||
| 4 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 122B | 262K | $0.40 / $3.20 | ||
| 5 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 28B | 262K | $0.60 / $3.60 | ||
| 6 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 27B | 262K | $0.30 / $2.40 | ||
| 7 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 35B | 262K | $0.25 / $2.00 | ||
| 8 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 35B | — | — | ||
| 9 | Moonshot AI | — | — | — | ||
| 10 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 9B | — | — | ||
| 11 |  DeepSeek | 671B | — | — | ||
| 12 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 4B | — | — | ||
| 13 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 72B | — | — | ||
| 14 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 8B | — | — | ||
| 15 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 2B | — | — | ||
| 16 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 800M | — | — | ||
| 17 |  Baidu | 21B | — | — |
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