LiveBench

Continuously refreshed questions to avoid benchmark contamination

What LiveBench does

  • Continuously refreshed questions to avoid benchmark contamination
  • Scores across reasoning, coding, math, data analysis and instruction following
  • Open-source code and free leaderboard

LiveBench — straight answers

What is LiveBench?

LiveBench is listed under Leaderboards & Benchmarks, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Continuously refreshed questions to avoid benchmark contamination. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at livebench.ai.

Is LiveBench free?

LiveBench is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can LiveBench do?

LiveBench does 3 things the catalog singles out: Continuously refreshed questions to avoid benchmark contamination; scores across reasoning, coding, math, data analysis and instruction following; open-source code and free leaderboard.

What is the best free alternative to LiveBench?

Design Arena is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Leaderboards & Benchmarks sub-category and is free. Epoch AI, LMArena (Arena.ai) and Open ASR Leaderboard (Hugging Face) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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LMArena (Arena.ai)

Leaderboards & Benchmarks
free
  • Crowd-voted 'Battle Mode' blind head-to-head comparisons across text, image, and coding/agent models
  • The most-cited human-preference leaderboard in the industry, referenced in nearly every model launch announcement
  • Rebranded from LMArena to Arena.ai in 2026, now also covering agent and design-to-code leaderboards

Artificial Analysis

Leaderboards & Benchmarks
freemium
  • Independent cross-provider benchmarking of intelligence, speed and price for the same model across different hosting APIs
  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index aggregates multiple benchmarks into one comparable score
  • Covers coding agents, image/video, speech and vertical (finance/legal/health) evaluations, not just chat

SWE-bench

Leaderboards & Benchmarks
free
  • The standard benchmark for evaluating autonomous coding agents on real GitHub issue resolution
  • Multiple official variants (Verified, Multimodal, Multilingual, Lite) for different evaluation needs
  • Companion tooling (SWE-agent, mini-SWE-agent) for running the benchmark yourself, fully open

Design Arena

Leaderboards & Benchmarks
free
  • Crowdsourced Bradley-Terry (Elo-style) ranking of AI models specifically on design/aesthetic quality, not raw capability
  • Separate leaderboards for Website, UI Component, Game Dev, Data Viz, 3D, Image, Video and Logo generation
  • Real-time rankings from user votes across 140+ countries rather than a fixed static benchmark

Epoch AI

Leaderboards & Benchmarks
free
  • Independent, non-vendor research institute tracking AI compute, training cost and capability trends over time
  • Maintains FrontierMath and the Epoch Capabilities Index, benchmarks designed to resist saturation/gaming
  • Interactive Data Explorers covering 3,200+ tracked models, data centers, chips and companies, free to browse

Open ASR Leaderboard (Hugging Face)

Leaderboards & Benchmarks
freeNew
  • Ranks speech-recognition models by word error rate and real-time speed across English and multilingual sets
  • Open, reproducible evaluation code
  • Free to browse

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