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llama-3-8b-instruct

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

llama-3-8b-instruct 1165.6 llama-3-8b-instruct · 95% interval 1161.8–1169.3 · 104,642 votes · 2026-10-15

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,076.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,066.26 – 1,085.83

10757 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,151.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,143.89 – 1,158.93

18374 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,149.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,141.56 – 1,157.76

15365 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,213.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,208.30 – 1,218.03

61703 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,029.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,024.00 – 1,035.95

67687 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,113.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,101.37 – 1,124.79

5360 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,158.82 rating

Confidence interval: 1,137.02 – 1,180.61

1624 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,104.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,089.60 – 1,119.24

3370 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,133.12 rating

Confidence interval: 1,127.05 – 1,139.19

30221 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,163.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,156.34 – 1,170.70

19891 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,127.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,118.10 – 1,136.12

10764 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,132.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,124.23 – 1,139.76

15413 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,167.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,155.88 – 1,179.14

5578 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,170.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,162.12 – 1,177.91

17322 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,153.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,145.06 – 1,161.52

12836 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,148.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,135.85 – 1,160.14

5400 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,156.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,149.57 – 1,162.52

29645 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,147.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,141.16 – 1,154.44

25481 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,127.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,121.39 – 1,132.69

37733 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

967.40 rating

Confidence interval: 949.21 – 985.60

1992 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,003.58 rating

Confidence interval: 984.36 – 1,022.79

2422 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,127.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,118.87 – 1,136.00

11165 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,151.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,143.31 – 1,159.01

14252 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,152.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,144.35 – 1,160.54

14815 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,097.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,092.19 – 1,102.89

42939 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,165.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,161.85 – 1,169.28

104642 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,136.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,083.86 – 1,190.12

257 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,109.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,100.24 – 1,118.25

10009 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

llama-3-8b-instruct

1,172.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,151.53 – 1,193.94

1744 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
llama-3-8b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference

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