Model comparison

GPT-4o mini vs Llama 3.1-405B

Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.5

Rank #343 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.7

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o mini scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 30.4 to 17.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Confabulations: 37.2% for GPT-4o mini and 17.6% for Llama 3.1-405B.
  • Llama 3.1-405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o mini and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
GPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index25.530.7
Released2024-07-182024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked6042

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3.1-405B leads

GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
WeirdML11.8%21.4%
LMArena Coding12901291
Aider Polyglot3.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding43.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+83.5%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101), Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
Cybench—7.5%
BALROG17.4%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1-405B leads

GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
SimpleBench10.7%23%
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%45%
LMArena Hard Prompts12671269
DTBench54.4%61.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.56128.75
PIQA88.7%85.9%
ARC-AGI-20%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning32.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
LiveBench Data Analysis50%—
LMCA10.4%—
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
ForecastBench—59.9
HellaSwag—89.2%
LiveBench41.3%—
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math Llama 3.1-405B leads

GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.9%9.7%
Omni-MATH28%24.9%
LMArena Math12671281
MATH Level 552.6%49.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
LiveBench Math36.3%—
GSM8K91.3%—

Knowledge Llama 3.1-405B leads

GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
GPQA Diamond37.7%50.9%
MMLU-Pro60.3%72.3%
Confabulations37.2%17.6%
GPQA (HELM)36.8%52.2%
LMArena Expert12351243
MMLU81.8%84.5%
SimpleQA Verified8.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
BoolQ88.7%—
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122), Llama 3.1-405B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Vision1066—
Video-MME64.8%—
GeoBench64%—
VPCT34%—

Multilingual GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English12661248
LMArena Chinese12651242
LMArena French12971279
LMArena German12721252
LMArena Japanese12161208
LMArena Korean11951184
LMArena Russian12751265
LMArena Spanish12761260

Instruction Following Llama 3.1-405B leads

GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
IFEval78.2%81.1%
LMArena Instruction Following12581259
LiveBench Instruction Following56.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query12891266

Writing & Preference Too close to call

GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text12861284
LMArena Creative Writing12681262
EQ-Bench Creative Writing873870
WildBench79.1%78.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn12851297
Short-Story Creative Writing67.2%—
LiveBench Language28.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o mini better than Llama 3.1-405B?

Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o mini or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

Llama 3.1-405B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.1 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o mini and Llama 3.1-405B share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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