Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs Llama 2-13B

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 68.3% for GPT-4.1 and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 and Llama 2-13B specifications
GPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index35.929.6
Released2025-04-142023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$8—
Results tracked5232

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Coding13911062
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 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%—

Reasoning Llama 2-13B leads

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles6%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts13841051
DTBench68.3%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index136.78106.17
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
SimpleBench27%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
EnigmaEval2.2%—
LMCA25.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
ForecastBench61.5—
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Llama 2-13B leads

GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Math13701065
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—36.9%

Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Expert13641030
GPQA Diamond66.9%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
MMLU-Pro81.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%—
GPQA (HELM)65.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1211—
GeoBench72%—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English13701024
LMArena Chinese13821001
LMArena French13821044
LMArena German13811009
LMArena Japanese1319894
LMArena Korean1339953
LMArena Russian13771055
LMArena Spanish13761087

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following13671045
IFEval83.8%—

Long Context GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query13851064
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Text13831084
LMArena Creative Writing13631047
LMArena Multi-Turn13981050
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1420—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than Llama 2-13B?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4.1 or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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