GSM8K
Grade-school maths word problems. A 2021 benchmark, saturated for current models; kept for history.
As of 19 Sept 2026, Deepseek Coder v2 leads GSM8K on BenchLeader with 94.5%, ahead of Qwen2.5-Coder-14B at 94.2%, across 74 model configurations with a published result.
- Published by
- Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
- Category
- Maths
- Index weight
- Reference only
- Models
- 74
- Data as of
- 19 Sept 2026
CC BY 4.0 — Epoch AI, ‘AI Benchmarking Hub’, epoch.ai/benchmarks. Mirrored boards credit their original publishers.
What the test looks like
Grade-school maths word problems.
How it is scored
Accuracy, as compiled by Epoch AI from published results.
What to keep in mind
Saturated: frontier models score near the ceiling, so it separates only older or smaller models, and results are largely self-reported by developers.
- 1Deepseek Coder v294.5%
- 2Qwen2.5-Coder-14B94.2%
- 3Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct93.0%
- 4GPT 4 031492.0%
- 5GPT-4o mini91.3%
- 6GPT 4 061390.0%
- 7Phi-3.5-MoE88.7%
- 8DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct87.6%
- 9Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct86.7%
- 10Claude Instant86.7%
- 11Phi-3.5-mini86.2%
- 12DeepSeek-Coder-V2 236B85.8%
- 13Gemma 2 9B84.9%
- 14Mistral NeMo84.2%
- 15Llama 3.1 8B82.4%
74 of 74
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94.5% | 45.4 | 2024-06-17 | |
| 2 | 94.2% | – | 2024-11-06 | |
| 3 | 93.0% | 42.6 | 2024-11-21 | |
| 4 | 92.0% | 43.9 | 2023-03-14 | |
| 5 | 91.3% | 36.2 | 2024-07-18 | |
| 6 | 90.0% | 40.2 | 2023-06-13 | |
| 7 | 88.7% | – | 2024-08-17 | |
| 8 | 87.6% | – | 2024-06-13 | |
| 9 | 86.7% | – | 2024-09-17 | |
| 10 | 86.7% | – | 2023-08-09 | |
| 11 | 86.2% | – | 2024-08-16 | |
| 12 | 85.8% | – | 2024-06-17 | |
| 13 | 84.9% | 39.5 | – | |
| 14 | 84.2% | – | 2024-07-18 | |
| 15 | 82.4% | 36.8 | 2024-07-23 | |
| 16 | 82.4% | 36.7 | 2024-05-23 | |
| 17 | 80.9% | – | – | |
| 18 | 80.7% | – | 2024-11-06 | |
| 19 | 78.2% | – | 2022-11-28 | |
| 20 | 76.0% | 35.5 | 2023-11-22 | |
| 21 | 74.4% | 32.1 | 2023-12-11 | |
| 22 | 69.6% | 34.9 | 2023-07-18 | |
| 23 | 69.6% | – | 2023-07-20 | |
| 24 | 67.1% | – | 2024-06-13 | |
| 25 | 65.8% | – | 2024-09-18 | |
| 26 | 62.9% | – | 2023-09-18 | |
| 27 | 61.3% | – | 2023-09-28 | |
| 28 | 57.8% | – | 2023-06-13 | |
| 29 | 57.7% | – | 2024-02-20 | |
| 30 | 56.8% | – | 2022-03-15 | |
| 31 | 56.5% | – | 2022-04-04 | |
| 32 | 54.4% | 32.1 | 2023-09-27 | |
| 33 | 54.4% | – | 2023-09-06 | |
| 34 | 54.4% | – | 2023-02-24 | |
| 35 | 53.8% | – | 2024-05-09 | |
| 36 | 52.8% | – | 2023-09-06 | |
| 37 | 51.7% | – | 2023-09-28 | |
| 38 | 46.4% | – | 2024-02-21 | |
| 39 | 46.0% | – | 2024-02-26 | |
| 40 | 45.7% | – | 2023-09-06 | |
| 41 | 44.9% | – | 2023-11-22 | |
| 42 | 44.1% | – | 2023-02-24 | |
| 43 | 42.2% | – | 2023-07-18 | |
| 44 | 41.5% | – | 2022-03-15 | |
| 45 | 38.6% | – | 2024-11-29 | |
| 46 | CodeQwen1.5-7BUnknown | 37.7% | – | 2024-04-15 |
| 47 | 36.9% | 36.5 | 2023-07-18 | |
| 48 | 35.4% | – | 2023-11-02 | |
| 49 | 34.5% | – | 2024-09-18 | |
| 50 | 34.4% | – | 2023-06-22 | |
| 51 | 33.8% | – | 2023-05-25 | |
| 52 | 33.0% | – | 2022-04-04 | |
| 53 | 32.7% | – | 2024-02-20 | |
| 54 | 32.4% | – | 2023-06-24 | |
| 55 | 31.2% | – | 2023-07-05 | |
| 56 | 28.1% | – | 2023-04-12 | |
| 57 | 26.8% | – | 2023-07-11 | |
| 58 | 24.6% | – | 2023-09-20 | |
| 59 | 21.6% | – | 2024-02-22 | |
| 60 | 21.3% | – | 2023-11-02 |
Cite as: BenchLeader, “GSM8K leaderboard”, https://www.benchleader.com/benchmarks/gsm8k, data as of 19 Sept 2026.
GSM8K: questions
- What does GSM8K measure?
- Grade-school maths word problems. Scores are reported in percent of tasks solved; higher is better.
- Which AI model leads GSM8K?
- Deepseek Coder v2 leads GSM8K with 94.5% as of 19 Sept 2026, ahead of Qwen2.5-Coder-14B at 94.2%.
- How many models have GSM8K results?
- 74 model configurations have a GSM8K result on BenchLeader, all taken from Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub.
- Who runs GSM8K and how often is it updated?
- GSM8K is published by Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub. BenchLeader re-reads the published results every morning and records the date each result was published.
- Does GSM8K count toward the BenchLeader Index?
- No. GSM8K is shown for reference but left out of the composite index.