PodBench - Thinking Mode - Instruction Following: leaderboard
Metric: Instruction Following (0-100; judge-derived checklist, items scored 0/0.5/1). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 12 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen 3 235B A22B (Thinking) | 94.32 |
| 2 | DeepSeek R1 0528 | 94.27 |
| 3 | Qwen 3 32B (Thinking) | 93.78 |
| 4 | Qwen 3 14B (Reasoning) | 91.79 |
| 5 | Qwen 3 30B A3B (Thinking) | 89.88 |
| 6 | Qwen 3 8B (Thinking) | 88.45 |
| 7 | DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | 85.67 |
| 8 | Qwen 3 4B (Reasoning) | 83.04 |
| 9 | DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | 80.12 |
| 10 | DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | 66.94 |
| 11 | Qwen 3 1.7B (Thinking) | 62.65 |
| 12 | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B | 42.59 |
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