Model comparison

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B vs o3

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

o3 OpenAI

47.5

Rank #61 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B scores higher in 0 categories and o3 in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where o3 leads 54.6 to 30.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 51.4% for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B and 84.4% for o3.
  • DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B and o3 specifications
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index37.847.5
Released2025-01-202025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$8
Results tracked1363

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Category by category

Coding o3 leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.8 (#202), o3: 46.8 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
SWE-bench Verified—62.3%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—58.4%
Aider Polyglot—81.3%
GSO—8.8%
WeirdML—52.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct35.3%—
LiveBench Coding51.6%—
LMArena Coding—1408
BigCodeBench Complete49.9%—
CadEval—74%
ALE-Bench—933.55

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —, o3: 34.5 (#44)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—30.8%
DeepResearch Bench—45.2%
OSWorld—23%
LMArena Search—1144
METR Time Horizons—65.4%

Reasoning o3 leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 24.9 (#156), o3: 32.0 (#78)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%67.6%
ARC-AGI-2—6.5%
SimpleBench—53.1%
ARC-AGI-1—60.8%
CritPt—1.4%
Chess Puzzles—38%
EnigmaEval—13.1%
LiveBench Reasoning67.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1402
Mystery Game Puzzles—29%
DTBench—84.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis55.9%—
LMCA—39.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.86
ForecastBench—62.5
LiveBench54.5%—

Math o3 leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.0 (#176), o3: 50.2 (#58)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202551.4%84.4%
MATH Level 589.9%97.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—33.3%
Omni-MATH—71.4%
LiveBench Math58.1%—
LMArena Math—1426
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—18.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge o3 leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 30.7 (#225), o3: 54.6 (#52)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
GPQA Diamond55.7%81.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—20.3%
SimpleQA Verified—49.4%
MMLU-Pro—85.9%
Confabulations—14.4%
GPQA (HELM)—75.3%
LMArena Expert—1402

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —, o3: 41.4 (#36)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
LMArena Vision—1214
GeoBench—74%
VPCT—52%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —, o3: 51.7 (#105)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
LMArena Non-English—1401
LMArena Chinese—1437
LMArena French—1430
LMArena German—1420
LMArena Japanese—1403
LMArena Korean—1370
LMArena Russian—1406
LMArena Spanish—1395

Instruction Following o3 leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 68.2 (#190), o3: 72.8 (#127)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
LiveBench Instruction Following69.9%—
IFEval—86.9%
LMArena Instruction Following—1368

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —, o3: 53.3 (#6)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
Fiction.LiveBench—88.9%
CL-bench—17.8%
LMArena Longer Query—1372

Writing & Preference o3 leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 49.0 (#194), o3: 63.5 (#64)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70Bo3
LMArena Text—1410
LMArena Creative Writing—1359
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1676
WildBench—86.1%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1405
LiveBench Language23.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B better than o3?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B or o3 better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B and o3 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has 13 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.

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