Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base from JetBrains ranks #651 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (44.0), based on 3 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation
JetBrains
Type
Open-weight / local model
Open weights
Yes
Aggregate rank
#651 of 743 (score 44.0)

Relative to other models, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base is strongest on MMLU-Pro (#61 of 136) and weakest on GPQA Diamond (#246 of 275).

Across the 3 benchmarks where at least ten models are scored, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base benchmark results

Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
BenchmarkScoreRankSourceCaptured
MMLU-Pro59.3%#61 of 136HuggingFace MMLU-Pro leaderboard2026-10-13
GSM8K81.7%#13 of 17HuggingFace GSM8K leaderboard2026-10-13
GPQA Diamond31.3%#246 of 275HuggingFace GPQA Diamond leaderboard2026-10-13

About Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base

Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from JetBrains. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 3 benchmark results for it across 2 areas, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base stands

On our aggregate score, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base is #651 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 44.0; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 6.0 points below the typical model. That beats 12% of the ranked field. Among the 6 ranked JetBrains models it is #5. The next one up is Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct-SFT at 46.5. The next one down is Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base-Pretrain at 44.0.

Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base, benchmark by benchmark

MMLU-Pro puts Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base at 59.3%, #61 of 136. That beats 55% of the models tested, but 28.8 points short of Darwin-180B-RSI (88.1%). The results either side are Tencent-Hunyuan-Large (60.2%) and Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base-Pretrain (59.3%). It covers 57-subject knowledge + reasoning. The board median is 55.3%, so Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base is 4.1 points above it. Source: HuggingFace MMLU-Pro leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base lands below the middle on GSM8K: 81.7%, #13 of 17, with 71% of the field scoring higher. mimo-v2.5-pro leads at 99.6%; the closest result above is Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct at 85.7%. It covers grade-school math word problems. The board median is 86.9%, so Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base is 5.1 points below it. Source: HuggingFace GSM8K leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

GPQA Diamond is a weak spot. Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base scores 31.3%, #246 of 275, behind 89% of the models measured. The leader, GPT-6 Astra (max), reaches 95.8%. It covers expert-level science questions. The board median is 71.7%, so Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Base is 40.4 points below it. Source: HuggingFace GPQA Diamond leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Strengths and weaknesses

Reasoning, maths and science: uneven, ahead of 33% of the field on average across 2 benchmarks. Its best board here is MMLU-Pro (#61 of 136) and its weakest is GPQA Diamond (#246 of 275).

Reading these numbers

The 3 scores on this page come from 3 sources: HuggingFace GPQA Diamond leaderboard (1), HuggingFace GSM8K leaderboard (1), HuggingFace MMLU-Pro leaderboard (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 3 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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