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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct 1042.0 smollm2-1.7b-instruct · 95% interval 1027.9–1056.1 · 2,199 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 / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,047.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,015.74 – 1,079.56

352 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,031.28 rating

Confidence interval: 997.18 – 1,065.38

341 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,092.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,073.95 – 1,111.22

1111 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

796.93 rating

Confidence interval: 766.00 – 827.87

1601 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,052.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,028.96 – 1,076.95

572 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,068.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,036.97 – 1,099.51

334 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

965.20 rating

Confidence interval: 922.25 – 1,008.16

252 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,007.64 rating

Confidence interval: 975.35 – 1,039.93

360 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,046.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,011.75 – 1,080.54

352 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,121.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,088.22 – 1,155.75

240 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,046.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,020.73 – 1,072.42

576 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,024.52 rating

Confidence interval: 998.43 – 1,050.61

627 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,029.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,008.09 – 1,050.02

859 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,056.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,024.21 – 1,087.93

328 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,104.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,071.93 – 1,137.46

271 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

992.98 rating

Confidence interval: 955.21 – 1,030.75

339 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

984.80 rating

Confidence interval: 964.95 – 1,004.64

1088 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

1,041.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,027.91 – 1,056.05

2199 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

981.23 rating

Confidence interval: 950.13 – 1,012.32

410 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
Apache 2.0