Model comparison

GPT-4 vs Llama 2-70B

GPT-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4 leads 40.6 to 27.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 62.7% for GPT-4 and 41.6% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 and Llama 2-70B specifications
GPT-4Llama 2-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index29.124.4
Released2023-03-142023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window8K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$60—
Results tracked3835

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GPT-4: 31.6 (#283), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding12541079
WeirdML12.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.2%—
HumanEval+79.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4: —, Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Llama 2-70B
METR Time Horizons36.1%—

Reasoning GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 17.8 (#289), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12411073
DTBench62.7%41.6%
BIG-Bench Hard75.1%64.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index125.89113.79
ForecastBench57.851.4
HellaSwag95.3%85.3%
WinoGrande87.5%80.2%
Chess Puzzles4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
LMCA17.1%—
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%

Math GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 10.8 (#309), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Llama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%0%
LMArena Math12691091
MATH Level 523%3.3%
GSM8K92%69.6%

Knowledge GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 18.4 (#282), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond35.7%26.3%
LMArena Expert12111039
MMLU86.4%69.9%
TriviaQA84.8%87.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
OpenBookQA—60.2%

Multilingual GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 40.6 (#215), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English12461045
LMArena Chinese1242995
LMArena French12831090
LMArena German12511041
LMArena Japanese1209927
LMArena Korean1184964
LMArena Russian12511083
LMArena Spanish12611143

Instruction Following GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 65.3 (#222), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following12411071

Long Context GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 37.7 (#212), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query12441062

Writing & Preference GPT-4 leads

GPT-4: 34.9 (#268), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text12631115
LMArena Creative Writing12441075
LMArena Multi-Turn12571088
EQ-Bench Creative Writing752—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 better than Llama 2-70B?

GPT-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.6 vs 31.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Llama 2-70B share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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