HELM NarrativeQA: leaderboard

Reading comprehension on full stories and movie scripts requiring free-form answers, scored by F1 overlap. Part of the Stanford HELM evaluation suite.

Metric: F1 (%). Source: huggingface.co. Source: crfm.stanford.edu. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 91 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o (2024-05-13)80.39#325
2Llama 3 70B79.82#631
3DeepSeek V379.63#321
4GPT-4o (2024-08-06)79.54#336
5Llama 3.3 70B Instruct79.13#534
6Nova Pro79.13#569
7Gemma 2 27B (IT)78.97#645
8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Preview)78.3#370
9Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)78.29#577
10Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)78.25#444
11Yi 34B (Base)78.22#972
12Mistral Large 2 (Jul)77.87#484
13Mixtral 8x22B77.87#766
14Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct77.69#622
15Llama 3.1 70B Instruct77.24#561

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

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