Model comparison
GPT-3.5-turbo vs Llama 2-7B
Llama 2-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-3.5-turbo scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 2-7B in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 2-7B leads 30.7 to 6.3.
- Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 23.2 | 29.1 |
| Released | 2023-03-01 | 2023-07-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 16K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 44 | 29 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 2-7B leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331), Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1136 | 1002 |
| WeirdML | 3.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 70.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.7% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-3.5-turbo: —, Llama 2-7B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 21.5% | — |
Reasoning Llama 2-7B leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332), Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1108 | 1009 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 61.6% | 39.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.55 | 99.06 |
| WinoGrande | 81.6% | 69.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 3% | — |
| DTBench | 48.5% | — |
| LMCA | 9.7% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 58.1% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 57% | — |
| ForecastBench | 50.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 77.2% |
| LAMBADA | — | 73.3% |
| PIQA | — | 78.8% |
Math Llama 2-7B leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327), Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1142 | 1042 |
| GSM8K | 57.8% | 16.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 15.9% | — |
Knowledge Llama 2-7B leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1070 | 1036 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 87.4% | 45.9% |
| BoolQ | 87% | 77.9% |
| MMLU | 71.4% | 45.8% |
| OpenBookQA | 86% | 58.6% |
| TriviaQA | 85.8% | 73.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | 28% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-3.5-turbo: —, Llama 2-7B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | — | 43.1% |
Multilingual GPT-3.5-turbo leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1108 | 973 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1075 | 973 |
| LMArena French | 1118 | 970 |
| LMArena German | 1090 | 978 |
| LMArena Russian | 1123 | 995 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1121 | 1007 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1043 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1019 | — |
Instruction Following GPT-3.5-turbo leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1119 | 1006 |
Long Context GPT-3.5-turbo leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1121 | 999 |
Writing & Preference Llama 2-7B leads
GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)
| Benchmark | GPT-3.5-turbo | Llama 2-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1125 | 1053 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1092 | 1033 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1117 | 1029 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 451 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-3.5-turbo better than Llama 2-7B?
Llama 2-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 23.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-3.5-turbo or Llama 2-7B better for coding?
Llama 2-7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.2 versus 23.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-3.5-turbo and Llama 2-7B share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-3.5-turbo has 44 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.