BFCL

    ๐Ÿ† Leaderboard

    As of August 20, 2026, Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is #1 for BFCL at 88.5%. Ranked by the BFCL score 42 models in this index have a published BFCL score. BFCL leaderboard with live API prices. Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard โ€” tests accuracy and reliability of LLM function/tool calling.

    Updated August 20, 2026282 models33 providers
    Llama 3.1 405B InstructOSS
    Meta ยท Open Source
    88.5%$1.78
    Llama 3.1 70B InstructOSS
    Meta ยท Open Source
    84.8%$0.40
    Claude Opus 4.5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    77.5%$30.00
    Llama 3.1 8B InstructOSS
    Meta ยท Open Source
    76.1%$0.06
    Nova 2 Sonic
    Amazon ยท Proprietary
    74.5%$3.08
    Claude Sonnet 4.5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    73.2%$18.00
    Gemini 3 Pro
    Google ยท Proprietary
    72.5%$14.00
    GLM-4.6OSS
    Z AI ยท Open Source
    72.4%$2.80
    Qwen3 235B A22BOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    70.8%$0.20
    Qwen3 32BOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    70.3%$0.54
    Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning
    xAI ยท Proprietary
    69.6%$0.70
    Qwen3 30B A3BOSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    69.1%$0.54
    Claude Haiku 4.5
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    68.7%$6.00
    Nova Pro
    Amazon ยท Proprietary
    68.4%$4.00
    Nova Lite
    Amazon ยท Proprietary
    66.6%$0.30
    o3-mini
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    65.1%$5.50
    o3
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    63.0%$10.00
    Gemini 2.0 Flash
    Google ยท Proprietary
    60.4%$0.50
    DeepSeek-V3OSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source
    58.5%$1.37
    Grok-4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning
    xAI ยท Proprietary
    58.3%$0.70
    DeepSeek-R1OSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source
    57.5%$2.74
    DeepSeek-V3.2-ExpOSS
    DeepSeek ยท Open Source
    56.7%$0.68
    Gemini 2.5 Flash
    Google ยท Proprietary
    56.2%$2.80
    Nova Micro
    Amazon ยท Proprietary
    56.2%$0.17
    GPT-5.2
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    55.9%$15.75
    GPT-5 mini
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    55.5%$2.25
    GPT-4.1
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    54.0%$10.00
    o4-mini
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    53.2%$5.50
    o1-mini
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    52.2%$15.00
    Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507OSS
    Qwen ยท Open Source
    52.1%$0.95
    GPT-5 nano
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    51.5%$0.45
    GPT-4.1 mini
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    50.5%$2.00
    Command A+OSS
    Cohere ยท Open Source
    46.5%$12.50
    Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteOSS
    Google ยท Open Source
    36.9%$0.50
    GPT-4.1 nano
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    33.0%$0.50
    Llama 3.3 70B InstructOSS
    Meta ยท Open Source
    31.9%$0.40
    Gemma 3 12BOSS
    Google ยท Open Source
    30.4%$0.15
    Gemma 3 27BOSS
    Google ยท Open Source
    29.5%$0.30
    Phi 4OSS
    Microsoft ยท Open Source
    28.8%$0.21
    Llama 3.2 3B InstructOSS
    Meta ยท Open Source
    21.9%$0.03lowest
    Gemma 3 4BOSS
    Google ยท Open Source
    19.6%$0.06
    Ministral 8B InstructOSS
    Mistral ยท Open Source ยท via Mistral AI
    11.1%$0.20
    ChatGPT-4o Latest
    OpenAI ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$12.50
    Claude 3 Haiku
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$1.50
    Claude 3 Opus
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$90.00
    Claude 3 Sonnet
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude 3.5 Haiku
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$4.80
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude 3.5 Sonnet
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
    Claude 3.7 Sonnet
    Anthropic ยท Proprietary
    โ€”$18.00
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    All Large Language Models

    282 models across 33 providers. Search or jump to a lab โ€” every model page stays linked here.

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    Which model leads BFCL right now?

    As of August 20, 2026, Llama 3.1 405B Instruct by Meta is #1 for BFCL at 88.5%. Ranked by the BFCL score This board also tracks BFCL. Next on the same board: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct and Claude Opus 4.5. This bfcl leaderboard ranks models by BFCL. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.

    Sources: OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)

    Top 8 for bfcl. Ranked by the BFCL score Input and output are dollars per million tokens.
    RankModelBFCLInput /MOutput /M
    1Llama 3.1 405B Instruct88.5%$0.89$0.89
    2Llama 3.1 70B Instruct84.8%$0.20$0.20
    3Claude Opus 4.577.5%$5.00$25.00
    4Llama 3.1 8B Instruct76.1%$0.03$0.03
    5Nova 2 Sonic74.5%$0.33$2.75
    6Claude Sonnet 4.573.2%$3.00$15.00
    7Gemini 3 Pro72.5%$2.00$12.00
    8GLM-4.672.4%$0.60$2.20

    BFCL FAQ

    Who ranks #1 on the BFCL leaderboard?

    As of August 20, 2026, Llama 3.1 405B Instruct by Meta ranks #1 on BFCL at 88.5%. API pricing is $0.89/M input and $0.89/M output.

    What are the top models on BFCL?

    The current BFCL ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct at 88.5%; 2. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct at 84.8%; 3. Claude Opus 4.5 at 77.5%.

    Which bfcl model is the cheapest?

    Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is the cheapest scored model on this bfcl leaderboard at $0.01/M input and $0.02/M output ($0.03 blended). Llama 3.1 405B Instruct still leads BFCL at 88.5%.

    Should I always pick the #1 BFCL model?

    Not automatically. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct leads BFCL, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh BFCL against input/output price, context window, and related evals.

    How often is the BFCL leaderboard updated?

    Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 20, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.

    What is BFCL?

    Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard โ€” tests accuracy and reliability of LLM function/tool calling. This page ranks models that have published a BFCL score, with live API token prices on the same row.

    Where is the BFCL leaderboard?

    This page is the BFCL leaderboard. Models are sorted by BFCL, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.

    How is this BFCL ranking different from the official board?

    Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published BFCL score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.