Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs Llama 13b

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 13b in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 13.8.
  • Llama 13b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 and Llama 13b specifications
GPT-4.1Llama 13b
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index35.924.4
Released2025-04-142023-02-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$8—
Results tracked5221

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238), Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
LMArena Coding1391683
SWE-bench Verified48.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)39.6%—
Aider Polyglot52.4%—
WeirdML39%—
CadEval42%—
ALE-Bench558.1—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43), Llama 13b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%—

Reasoning Llama 13b leads

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339), Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1384728
Epoch Capabilities Index136.78100.58
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
SimpleBench27%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
EnigmaEval2.2%—
DTBench68.3%—
LMCA25.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
ForecastBench61.5—
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math Llama 13b leads

GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280), Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
LMArena Math1370838
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202538.3%—
Omni-MATH47.1%—
MATH Level 583%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—20.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
GPQA Diamond66.9%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
MMLU-Pro81.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%—
GPQA (HELM)65.9%—
LMArena Expert1364—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
MMLU—47.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67), Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
LMArena Vision1211—
GeoBench72%—
ScienceQA—43.3%

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133), Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
LMArena Non-English1370819
LMArena Chinese1382—
LMArena French1382—
LMArena German1381—
LMArena Japanese1319—
LMArena Korean1339—
LMArena Russian1377—
LMArena Spanish1376—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153), Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1367781
IFEval83.8%—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1385—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125), Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 13b
LMArena Text1383834
LMArena Creative Writing1363794
LMArena Multi-Turn1398753
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1420—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than Llama 13b?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4.1 or Llama 13b better for coding?

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Llama 13b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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