Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-4.1 leads 40.0 to 26.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 83% for GPT-4.1 and 41.6% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for GPT-4.1.
  • GPT-4.1 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
GPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index35.930.6
Released2025-04-142024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output33K4K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$8$0.32
Results tracked5243

Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry

Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
WeirdML39%14.4%
LMArena Coding13911268
SWE-bench Verified48.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)39.6%—
Aider Polyglot52.4%—
SciCode—26%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
CadEval42%—
ALE-Bench558.1—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%31.9%
BALROG—23%

Reasoning Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SimpleBench27%19.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13841257
DTBench68.3%59.5%
LMCA25.6%17.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index136.78127.33
ForecastBench61.558.6
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles6%—
EnigmaEval2.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
LiveBench—50.2%

Math GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202538.3%5.1%
LMArena Math13701267
MATH Level 583%41.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6%—
Omni-MATH47.1%—
LiveBench Math—42.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
GPQA Diamond66.9%47.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%4.1%
LMArena Expert13641225
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
MMLU-Pro81.1%—
Confabulations—22.8%
GPQA (HELM)65.9%—
MMLU—86.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Vision1211—
GeoBench72%—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English13701236
LMArena Chinese13821217
LMArena French13821281
LMArena German13811251
LMArena Japanese13191150
LMArena Korean13391143
LMArena Russian13771252
LMArena Spanish13761270

Instruction Following Too close to call

GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13671242
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%
IFEval83.8%—

Long Context GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%33.3%
LMArena Longer Query13851256

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text13831274
LMArena Creative Writing13631250
LMArena Multi-Turn13981280
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1420—
WildBench85.4%—
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 lists at $2 and $8.

Is GPT-4.1 or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

Related comparisons

Go deeper