Who ranks #1 on the IFBench leaderboard?
As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3.8 Max by Qwen ranks #1 on IFBench at 82.8%. API pricing is $2.00/M input and $6.00/M output.
As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3.8 Max is #1 for IFBench at 82.8%. Ranked by IFBench, a harder instruction-following set than IFEval. 25 models in this index have a published IFBench score. IFBench leaderboard: rank models by IFBench next to live API token prices.
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As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3.8 Max by Qwen is #1 for IFBench at 82.8%. Ranked by IFBench, a harder instruction-following set than IFEval. This board also tracks IFBench. Next on the same board: Inkling-Small and Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B). This ifbench leaderboard ranks models by IFBench. 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)
| Rank | Model | IFBench | Input /M | Output /M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen3.8 Max | 82.8% | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| 2 | Inkling-Small | 82.2% | $0.30 | $1.20 |
| 3 | Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) | 81.7% | $0.50 | $2.20 |
| 4 | Hermes 3 70B | 81.2% | $0.35 | $1.40 |
| 5 | Qwen3.8-27B | 79.5% | $0.45 | $3.20 |
| 6 | Qwen3.7-Plus | 79.1% | $0.32 | $1.28 |
| 7 | Qwen3.7 Max | 79.1% | $1.25 | $3.75 |
| 8 | Muse Glimmer-30B | 77% | $0.35 | $1.50 |
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As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3.8 Max by Qwen ranks #1 on IFBench at 82.8%. API pricing is $2.00/M input and $6.00/M output.
The current IFBench ranking as of August 20, 2026 is 1. Qwen3.8 Max at 82.8%; 2. Inkling-Small at 82.2%; 3. Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B) at 81.7%.
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B) is the cheapest scored model on this ifbench leaderboard at $0.05/M input and $0.20/M output ($0.25 blended). Qwen3.8 Max still leads IFBench at 82.8%.
Not automatically. Qwen3.8 Max leads IFBench, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh IFBench against input/output price, context window, and related evals.
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.
IFBench is a public LLM eval (IFBench, a harder instruction-following set than IFEval.). This page ranks models that have published a score, next to live API prices.
This page is the IFBench leaderboard. Models are sorted by IFBench, 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.
Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published IFBench score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.