# LiveCodeBench Pro

> A harder competitive-programming benchmark family built from Codeforces, ICPC, and IOI problems, with quarter-specific public leaderboards and difficulty-aware reporting.

Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/benchmarks/livecodebench-pro

- Category: [Coding](/coding)
- Last updated: September 27, 2026

## About LiveCodeBench Pro

- Year: 2025
- Tasks: Quarter-specific contest programming sets
- Format: Competitive programming
- Difficulty: High-end contest programming
- Paper: [LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11928)

LiveCodeBench Pro is distinct from the original LiveCodeBench family. It excludes LeetCode, emphasizes stronger contest difficulty, and the official site publishes quarter-specific leaderboards such as 25Q2 with hard, medium, and easy pass rates.

LiveCodeBench Pro is currently displayed on BenchLM for reference, but it is excluded from the weighted scoring formula.

## Leaderboard (8 models)

| Rank | Model | Creator | Score |
|------|-------|---------|-------|
| 1 | [Sakana Fugu-Ultra](/models/sakana-fugu-ultra) | Sakana AI | 90.8% |
| 2 | [Sakana Fugu](/models/sakana-fugu) | Sakana AI | 87.8% |
| 3 | [GPT-5.4](/models/gpt-5-4) | OpenAI | 87.5% |
| 4 | [Gemini 3.1 Pro](/models/gemini-3-1-pro) | Google | 82.9% |
| 5 | [Muse Spark](/models/muse-spark) | Meta | 80.0% |
| 6 | [Grok 4.20](/models/grok-4-20-beta) | xAI | 74.2% |
| 7 | [Claude Opus 4.6](/models/claude-opus-4-6) | Anthropic | 70.7% |
| 8 | [MiniCPM5-1B](/models/minicpm5-1b) | OpenBMB | 22.7% |

## FAQ

### What does LiveCodeBench Pro measure?

A harder competitive-programming benchmark family built from Codeforces, ICPC, and IOI problems, with quarter-specific public leaderboards and difficulty-aware reporting.

### Which model scores highest on LiveCodeBench Pro?

Sakana Fugu-Ultra by Sakana AI currently leads with a score of 90.8% on LiveCodeBench Pro.

### How many models are evaluated on LiveCodeBench Pro?

8 AI models have been evaluated on LiveCodeBench Pro on BenchLM.

### Does LiveCodeBench Pro affect BenchLM's overall score?

Not directly. LiveCodeBench Pro is still displayed on BenchLM for reference, but it is excluded from the weighted scoring formula.

## Compare Top Models on LiveCodeBench Pro

- [Sakana Fugu-Ultra vs Sakana Fugu](/compare/sakana-fugu-vs-sakana-fugu-ultra)
- [Sakana Fugu vs GPT-5.4](/compare/gpt-5-4-vs-sakana-fugu)
- [GPT-5.4 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro](/compare/gemini-3-1-pro-vs-gpt-5-4)
- [Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Muse Spark](/compare/gemini-3-1-pro-vs-muse-spark)