Instruction Following Benchmark

IFBench

IFBench - instruction following benchmark. General score from Qwen3.8 model card.

Category

Instruction Following

Score type

percent

Scale

relative

higher is better

Models tested

32

What is IFBench?

IFBench measures how precisely a model follows verifiable instructions: constraints like 'exactly three paragraphs, no commas, answer only in the form of a JSON object'. Each constraint is machine-checkable, which removes all subjectivity from grading.

What does it test?

IFBench measures how precisely a model obeys the instructions it was given. In detail, it checks:

  • exact compliance with machine-checkable constraints
  • multiple constraints at the same time
  • instruction honesty when the constraints conflict
  • precision that general chat quality scores easily miss

How to read the score

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better.

Frequently asked questions

What is the IFBench benchmark?

IFBench measures how precisely a model follows verifiable instructions: constraints like 'exactly three paragraphs, no commas, answer only in the form of a JSON object'. Each constraint is machine-checkable, which removes all subjectivity from grading.

What does IFBench test?

IFBench mainly measures how precisely a model obeys the instructions it was given. Concretely, it checks: exact compliance with machine-checkable constraints; multiple constraints at the same time; instruction honesty when the constraints conflict.

How is the IFBench score calculated?

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better.

Where do I get IFBench data and scores?

The official benchmark page/reference is linked on this page. Every score on Open LLM Radar is also available as open data: download the scores JSON (http://open-llm-radar-api:8000/api/v1/benchmarks/ifbench/scores) or pull it directly from the Open LLM Radar API with any HTTP client.

Model scores 32 models tested

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# Model Score Date Source Verified
1 Raon-1 mini
KRAFTON AI
84.2%
21.10.2026 Report Verified
2 Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
Qwen
82.8%
18.08.2026 Report Verified
3 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16
NVIDIA
81.7%
— Report Unverified
4 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen Team (Alibaba)
81.3%
26.08.2026 Report Verified
5 Gemma4-26B-A4B
Google
80.9%
21.10.2026 Report Unverified
6 Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
79.5%
26.08.2026 Report Unverified
7 Ripple-65B Preview
Ricursive Intelligence
79.2%
— Report Verified
8 DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
DeepSeek
79.2%
26.08.2026 Report Unverified
9 Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B
Meta Superintelligence Lab
78.6%
— Report Unverified
10 Muse-Glimmer-30B
Meta Superintelligence Lab
77%
01.08.2026 Meta Superintelligence Lab (official model card); KRAFTON re-eval (Raon-1-mini-preview card, gpt-5.6-luna harness): 78.7 Verified
11 Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
76.5%
01.02.2026 Report Unverified
12 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
76.1%
01.02.2026 Report Verified
13 Gemma4-31B-it
Google
76%
01.08.2026 Meta Superintelligence Lab (official model card) Unverified
14 Spark-X2.5-4B
SparkLLM (XHToken)
75%
— Report Verified
15 LFM2.5-24B-A2B
LiquidAI
74.69%
13.10.2026 Report Verified
16 Gemma4-12B
Google
73.5%
— Report Verified
17 LFM3-1.7B
LiquidAI
73.03%
— Report Verified
18 granite-4.2-3B
IBM
73%
— Report Verified
19 Qwen3.6-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
70.8%
01.08.2026 Meta Superintelligence Lab (official model card) Unverified
20 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
70.2%
01.02.2026 Report Unverified
21 Xing4.0-29B-A4B
China Telecom AI
69.67%
16.09.2026 Report Verified
22 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
66.6%
21.10.2026 Report Unverified
23 Spark-X2.5-1.7B
SparkLLM (XHToken)
66.3%
— Report Verified
24 MiniCPM5-2B
OpenBMB
66.3%
— Report Verified
25 Qwen3.5-4B
Qwen
59.2%
01.02.2026 Report Verified
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