Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Llama 3-70B

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3-70B in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 34.7 to 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 87.3% for GPT-4.1 mini and 22.6% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index33.628.8
Released2025-04-142024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$1.60—
Results tracked4731

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%43.6%
LMArena Coding13671206
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
CadEval16%—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts13491195
DTBench68.8%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01122.93
ARC-AGI-20%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
LMCA21.1%—
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%4.3%
LMArena Math13431218
MATH Level 587.3%22.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond65.8%40.6%
LMArena Expert13381149
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Llama 3-70B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English13181142
LMArena Chinese13291114
LMArena French13581232
LMArena German13511169
LMArena Japanese12901017
LMArena Korean12981017
LMArena Russian13241159
LMArena Spanish13191241

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13331194
IFEval90.4%—

Long Context Llama 3-70B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query13441174
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text13401221
LMArena Creative Writing13001210
LMArena Multi-Turn13541223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Llama 3-70B?

GPT-4.1 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.6 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Llama 3-70B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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