Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Llama 3.2 90B

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.5

Rank #232 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini and 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index33.527.1
Released2025-04-142024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$1.60—
Results tracked479

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding1367—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52), Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—
BALROG—27.3%

Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01125.5
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1349—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—

Math GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%2.6%
MATH Level 587.3%39.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
LMArena Math1343—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond65.8%41%
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
LMArena Expert1338—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77), Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision11811000
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1318—
LMArena Chinese1329—
LMArena French1357—
LMArena German1349—
LMArena Japanese1291—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Russian1324—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
IFEval90.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1332—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1344—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1341—
LMArena Creative Writing1300—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1354—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Llama 3.2 90B?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Llama 3.2 90B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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