GSM8K: OpenAI's set of 8,500 grade school math word problems with worked solutions, used to test multi-step reasoning of language models. These 6 tools cover the same task (evaluation data). They are ranked by how many of GSM8K's strongest markets they share, then by how complete their profile is.
Targets companies under 50 employees and offers a free plan.
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What GSM8K does
GSM8K is a widely used evaluation dataset of 8,500 English math word problems at grade school level. It checks whether a language model can reason through several calculation steps.
Problems need two to eight reasoning steps with basic arithmetic
Natural-language solutions show each intermediate step
GSM8K was created and published by OpenAI in the United States; the problems are in English.
Before you switch: Many current models score very high on GSM8K, and the test problems are likely part of some training data, so the dataset separates weak models better than strong ones. Use it as a basic check and add harder or company-specific tests. The problems are in English only.
LegalBench is an open benchmark for evaluating legal reasoning in English language models. Legal and IT teams use it to see how well a model handles contracts, statutes and court decisions.
Key functions
Tests classification, extraction, generation and entailment on legal text
Few-shot training splits per task for prompting experiments
Compared with GSM8K
Strong in the same markets as GSM8K: United States.
Check before buying: All tasks are in English and largely based on US law, so results do not transfer to German or EU law. Check the license of each task you use, since sources differ. Model outputs on legal questions still need review by qualified lawyers.
SWE-bench tests whether AI coding systems can fix real issues from open-source GitHub repositories. Its leaderboards are a common reference when companies compare coding assistants and agents.
Key functions
Measures the share of real repository issues an AI agent resolves
Containerized evaluation harness with Docker for reproducible runs
SWE-bench Verified: 500 problems confirmed solvable by engineers
Compared with GSM8K
Strong in the same markets as GSM8K: United States.
Check before buying: Public issues and fixes may have been seen during model training, so strong scores can overstate performance on your own code base. Running the harness needs Docker and compute, or a cloud option. Most tasks come from Python projects; test agents on your own repositories before a purchase decision.
C-Eval is an evaluation dataset of Chinese multiple-choice exam questions. Companies serving Chinese-speaking customers use it to compare how well language models handle Chinese knowledge and reasoning.
Key functions
Tests Chinese-language knowledge and reasoning of language models
Few-shot examples with explanations per subject
Compared with GSM8K
Strongest elsewhere: Hong Kong, China.
Check before buying: The CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license excludes commercial use; check with legal whether internal model selection in a company counts as commercial before using it. Results only describe Chinese-language performance. Public questions may have leaked into training data. For German or English use cases, other benchmarks fit better.
MMLU-Pro is an evaluation dataset with about 12,000 hard multiple-choice questions across disciplines. Teams use it to compare how well language models reason and recall knowledge.
Key functions
Ten answer options per question, with distractors generated by GPT-4 and reviewed by experts
Leaderboard with results for current frontier and open models
Compared with GSM8K
Strongest elsewhere: Canada.
Check before buying: Public benchmark questions may have entered model training data, so high scores can overstate real ability; add your own task-specific tests. The questions are in English and say little about German-language performance. Compare results only within the same prompt setup.
FinanceBench is a test set for question answering on company financial reports. Finance and data teams use the open sample to check whether a model or RAG setup finds correct figures in filings.
Key functions
Questions with answers and evidence strings from financial documents
Designed to test retrieval and long-context setups for financial question answering
Check before buying: The open sample is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, which excludes commercial use; clarify internal use with legal and ask Patronus AI about the full set. With 150 cases the sample is small, so add your own questions on your company's reports. The filings are US company documents in English.
LiveBench is an open benchmark for language models designed to limit test set contamination. It regularly adds new questions and scores answers automatically against objective solutions.
Key functions
New questions from recent datasets, arXiv papers and news to limit contamination
Automatic scoring against verifiable answers
Agentic coding tasks run in Docker
Check before buying: Running the full benchmark costs API tokens for every model tested, and agentic coding tasks need Docker. The README notes that local model inference is unmaintained, so serve local models behind an OpenAI-compatible API. Questions are in English. The results say little about German-language performance.
All 6 alternatives by buying criteria
GSM8K alternatives by price, trial, hosting and security
Not stated means we found no statement on the vendor's site. Data as of each profile's last check.
The market around GSM8K: 7 tools for this task
0 % Publish a price (0/7)
100 % Free plan (7/7)
0 % Free trial (0/7)
0 % EU hosting option (0/7)
0 % Headquartered in Europe (0/7)
0 % Single sign-on (0/7)
GSM8K is among the tools that price on request. Most vendors in this category sell through demos and quotes, so ask two or three for an offer on the same scope before you compare.
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Why teams look beyond GSM8K
2 alternatives are strong in at least one of the same countries as GSM8K, so local support and compliance should be comparable.
It depends on your country and company size. In our data, LegalBench, SWE-bench and C-Eval share the most strong markets with GSM8K, so they are the closest fit if you work where GSM8K is strong. Filter the list by country and size to narrow it down.
Is there a free alternative to GSM8K?
LegalBench, SWE-bench, C-Eval, MMLU-Pro and FinanceBench offer a free plan or a free trial according to the vendors. Check the limits of free plans before you rely on them for employee data.
Which GSM8K alternatives can host data in the EU?
None of the listed alternatives states an EU hosting option in our data.
Which GSM8K alternatives publish their prices?
None of the 6 alternatives publishes a price in our data. Ask for quotes on the same scope to compare.
LegalBench
