PodBench - Thinking Mode: leaderboard
Metric: PodBench Score (0-100; mean of instruction following and script quality). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 12 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek R1 0528 | 77.71 |
| 2 | Qwen 3 235B A22B (Thinking) | 77.37 |
| 3 | Qwen 3 32B (Thinking) | 76.85 |
| 4 | Qwen 3 14B (Reasoning) | 74.33 |
| 5 | Qwen 3 30B A3B (Thinking) | 72.33 |
| 6 | Qwen 3 8B (Thinking) | 71.17 |
| 7 | DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 68.49 |
| 8 | Qwen 3 4B (Reasoning) | 67.1 |
| 9 | DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | 64.09 |
| 10 | DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | 56.08 |
| 11 | Qwen 3 1.7B (Thinking) | 52.47 |
| 12 | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B | 39.4 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=podbench-thinking-mode · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-25.