Mostly Basic Python Problems.

974 crowd-sourced Python programming problems suitable for beginners. Covers programming fundamentals and standard library.

Best published scores.

19 results indexed across 1 metric. Shaded row marks current SOTA; ties broken by submission date.

Primary

pass@1 · higher is better

5 steps
of state of the art.

Each row below marks a model that broke the previous record on pass@1. Intermediate submissions are kept in the leaderboard above; only SOTA-setting entries are re-listed here.

Higher scores win. Each subsequent entry improved upon the previous best.

1. Feb 29, 2024StarCoder2 15BBigCode54.40
2. May 29, 2024Codestral 22BMistral75.40
3. Jun 17, 2024DeepSeek-Coder-V2-InstructDeepSeek89.40
4. Sep 19, 2024Qwen2.5-Coder 32BAlibaba90.20
5. Mar 27, 2026o4-miniOpenAI94.90

3 papers
tied to this benchmark.

Every paper below corresponds to at least one row in the leaderboard above. Click through for the arXiv preprint and, when available, the reference implementation.

Neighbouring benchmarks.

Other Code Generation datasets on Codesota.

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• 04One row per metric declared by this dataset
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