BlueBench - News Classification: leaderboard

BlueBench news classification task using 20 Newsgroups-style topical categorization of articles and forum posts.

Metric: Score (%). Source: huggingface.co. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 18 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o69.07#343
2O168.16#183
3O4 Mini67.37#180
4GPT-4.1 Mini66.67#355
5GPT-4.166.29#248
6Llama 3.3 70B Instruct59.89#534
7Mistral Medium 353.76#500
8Granite 3.3 8B Instruct46.07#825
9O3 Mini43.06#272
10GPT-4.1 Nano42.16#731
11Llama 3.2 3B Instruct36.47#1352
12Mistral Large29.01#710
13Pixtral-12B21.54#808
14Llama 3.2 1B Instruct20#1539

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=bluebench-news-classification · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.