Instructions following Model Ranking

See which AI models perform best on Instructions following, which ones stay reliable, and where the biggest gaps appear. Sort by: Response Time (avg) ↓.

Models Shown

Average Instructions following Score

0.8

Best Model

Command A+ 0.3

Failure Reasons

With failure reason Wrong answer118 With failure reason Did not follow instructions82 With failure reason API error25 With failure reason Extra formatting8 With failure reason Timed out5 With failure reason No answer2

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Rank	Model	Company	Instructions following Score	Score	Total Cost	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)
#60	Muse Spark 1.2 high	Meta	1.0	0.9	$2.018	2/2	5.43s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $2.018 Response Time (avg) 5.43s
#80	Muse Spark 1.1 low	Meta	0.7	0.9	$0.885	1/2	5.42s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 1 Total Cost $0.885 Response Time (avg) 5.42s
#196	Kimi K2.7 Code medium	Moonshot AI	1.0	0.7	$1.136	2/2	5.39s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $1.136 Response Time (avg) 5.39s
#278	GLM 5 Turbo medium	Z.ai	1.0	0.6	$0.323	2/2	5.38s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $0.323 Response Time (avg) 5.38s
#369	Ling 2.6 1t default	Inclusionai	0.6	0.5	$0.016	1/2	5.36s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 1 Total Cost $0.016 Response Time (avg) 5.36s
#150	Muse Glimmer 30B medium	Meta	1.0	0.8	$0.288	2/2	5.34s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $0.288 Response Time (avg) 5.34s
#18	Gemini 4 Argon high	Google	1.0	1.0	$1.802	2/2	5.32s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $1.802 Response Time (avg) 5.32s
#281	Claude Fable 5.1 low	Anthropic	0.7	0.6	$3.395	1/2	5.24s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 1 Total Cost $3.395 Response Time (avg) 5.24s
#82	Claude Sonnet 5.5 high	Anthropic	1.0	0.9	$1.175	2/2	5.13s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $1.175 Response Time (avg) 5.13s
#404	gpt-oss-120b none	OpenAI	1.0	0.4	$0.016	2/2	5.06s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $0.016 Response Time (avg) 5.06s
#34	Seed 2.1 Turbo low	Bytedance Seed	1.0	0.9	$1.645	2/2	5.05s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $1.645 Response Time (avg) 5.05s
#86	Muse Spark 1.3 low	Meta	1.0	0.9	$0.911	2/2	5.04s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $0.911 Response Time (avg) 5.04s
#373	Mimo V2 Omni medium	Xiaomi	0.8	0.5	$0.683	1/2	4.99s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 1 Total Cost $0.683 Response Time (avg) 4.99s
#348	Nemotron 3.5 Lightning high	NVIDIA	0.8	0.5	$0.168	1/2	4.98s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 1 Total Cost $0.168 Response Time (avg) 4.98s
#47	Pareto default	Unbiased	1.0	0.9	$1.520	2/2	4.95s
Total Tests 2 Wrong Tests 0 Total Cost $1.520 Response Time (avg) 4.95s

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