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LiveCodeBench

A contamination-resistant coding benchmark that tests LLMs on recent competitive programming problems to gauge code generation ability.

Known aliases

  • LiveCodeBench v6

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

Fixing the deployment target splits the flash-tier coding leaderboard into three winners

GLM-5.3-Flash leads agentic terminal work, DeepSeek V4 Flash is billed as the cheapest per token, and a 2.52B MiniCPM5-2B runs locally under Apache 2.0. The comparison flags most of those numbers as vendor-reported.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption27
Hype gap+26
Incentives58
Confidence41
buildOne report1 publisher

JetBrains ships a 50/50 weight average of two Qwen checkpoints in Junie Local

The merged 27B finished 37 of 100 internal coding tasks against 34 for the fast checkpoint and 39 for the reasoning one, and it did that while emitting 71% fewer output tokens than the 39, with no post-training in the recipe.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+18
Incentives78
Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher

Re-graded on post-cutoff problems, the cheap model loses 30 points and routing triples its value

OmnisBench's author rebuilt his split from date-stamped LiveCodeBench problems. The cheap tier fell from 90% to 60%, and a 4,096-token cap had been marking the frontier model absent.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives78
Confidence48
productOne report1 publisher

A 27B laptop model scores like a rented one, and thinks three times as hard to do it

Alibaba's Apache-2.0 Qwen3.8-27B fits in about 17GB and matched near-frontier scores, per Artificial Analysis. It also burned 3.7x the median output tokens getting there.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption64
Hype gap+18
Incentives60
Confidence55