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MMLU Leaderboard

100 models
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1
OpenAI
OpenAI
2
OpenAI
OpenAI
3
3
OpenAI
OpenAI
5
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B
5
Sarvam AI
Sarvam AI
105B
7
7
9
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
1.0T
9
OpenAI
OpenAI
1.0M$2.00 / $8.00
11117B131K$0.09 / $0.45
12560B
13
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
1.0T
131.0T
151.0T1.0M$0.43 / $0.87
16
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B
17
OpenAI
OpenAI
128K$2.50 / $10.00
17
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
19
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
671B
20
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
235B
21
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
1.0T
22
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
231.0M$0.40 / $1.60
23
25
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
26405B
27
OpenAI
OpenAI
28
Anthropic
Anthropic
29128K$10.00 / $30.00
30
OpenAI
OpenAI
30
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
32
3370B
3390B
35
Amazon
Amazon
35
37
OpenAI
OpenAI
128K$2.50 / $10.00
3869B256K$0.10 / $0.40
39400B
4021B
41
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.18 / $2.09
41
OpenAI
OpenAI
43
Sarvam AI
Sarvam AI
30B
44
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
45
Microsoft
Microsoft
15B
46
Mistral AI
Mistral AI
123B
4770B
48
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
49
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
72B
50
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About this benchmark

What is MMLU?

Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmark testing knowledge across 57 diverse subjects including STEM, humanities, social sciences, and professional domains

MMLU is a text benchmark evaluating models on math, reasoning, language, legal, finance, general, and healthcare tasks. LLM Stats tracks 100 models on this benchmark, scored on a 0–1 scale. The current average is 0.8, with the leader at 0.9.

Compare leaders on the best AI for math, best AI for reasoning, best AI for language, best AI for legal, best AI for finance, best AI for general and best AI for healthcare leaderboards.

Current leaders

GPT-5 from OpenAI currently leads the MMLU leaderboard with a score of 0.925 across 100 evaluated AI models.

1GPT-5OpenAI92.5%
2o1OpenAI91.8%
3o1-previewOpenAI90.8%
OSSQwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking#5 open-weight90.6%

Source paper

Title
Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding
Authors
Dan Hendrycks, Collin Burns, Steven Basart, Andy Zou, and 3 others
Published
Abstract

We propose a new test to measure a text model's multitask accuracy. The test covers 57 tasks including elementary mathematics, US history, computer science, law, and more. To attain high accuracy on this test, models must possess extensive world knowledge and problem solving ability. We find that while most recent models have near random-chance accuracy, the very largest GPT-3 model improves over random chance by almost 20 percentage points on average. However, on every one of the 57 tasks, the best models still need substantial improvements before they can reach expert-level accuracy. Models also have lopsided performance and frequently do not know when they are wrong. Worse, they still have near-random accuracy on some socially important subjects such as morality and law. By comprehensively evaluating the breadth and depth of a model's academic and professional understanding, our test can be used to analyze models across many tasks and to identify important shortcomings.

FAQ

Common questions about the MMLU benchmark and leaderboard.

What is the MMLU benchmark?

Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmark testing knowledge across 57 diverse subjects including STEM, humanities, social sciences, and professional domains

What is the MMLU leaderboard?

The MMLU leaderboard ranks 100 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, GPT-5 by OpenAI leads with a score of 0.925. The average score across all models is 0.802.

What is the highest MMLU score?

The highest MMLU score is 0.925, achieved by GPT-5 from OpenAI.

How many models are evaluated on MMLU?

100 models have been evaluated on the MMLU benchmark, with 0 verified results and 99 self-reported results.

Where can I find the MMLU paper?

The MMLU paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03300. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does MMLU cover?

MMLU is categorized under math, reasoning, language, legal, finance, general, and healthcare. The benchmark evaluates text models.

What is the best open-source model on MMLU?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team is the top-ranked open-source model on MMLU, with a score of 0.906 (rank #5).

Which model offers the best value on MMLU?

Among models scoring within 10% of the leader, GPT OSS 120B from OpenAI is the cheapest, at $0.09 per million input tokens with a score of 0.900.

How recent are the MMLU leaderboard results?

The MMLU leaderboard was last updated in July 2026 and currently includes 100 evaluated models.