Model comparison
GPT-4o mini vs Llama 3-70B
Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o mini scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3-70B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Llama 3-70B leads 35.8 to 22.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 52.6% for GPT-4o mini and 22.6% for Llama 3-70B.
- Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 28.8 |
| Released | 2024-07-18 | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3-70B leads
GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | 43.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1290 | 1206 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | 54.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 83.5% | 72% |
| MBPP+ | 72.2% | 69% |
| Aider Polyglot | 3.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 11.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 43.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4o mini leads
GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)
Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads
GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 35.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1195 |
| DTBench | 54.4% | 54.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.56 | 122.93 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 10.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 12% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50% | — |
| LMCA | 10.4% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | 41.3% | — |
| PIQA | 88.7% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 83.5% |
Math Llama 3-70B leads
GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.9% | 4.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1267 | 1218 |
| MATH Level 5 | 52.6% | 22.6% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.3% | — |
| GSM8K | 91.3% | — |
Knowledge Llama 3-70B leads
GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 37.7% | 40.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1235 | 1149 |
| MMLU | 81.8% | 79.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 8.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 37.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122), Llama 3-70B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1066 | — |
| Video-MME | 64.8% | — |
| GeoBench | 64% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
Multilingual GPT-4o mini leads
GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1266 | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1265 | 1114 |
| LMArena French | 1297 | 1232 |
| LMArena German | 1272 | 1169 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1216 | 1017 |
| LMArena Korean | 1195 | 1017 |
| LMArena Russian | 1275 | 1159 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1276 | 1241 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1194 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 56.8% | — |
| IFEval | 78.2% | — |
Long Context GPT-4o mini leads
GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | 1174 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads
GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1286 | 1221 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1268 | 1210 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1285 | 1223 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 67.2% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 873 | — |
| WildBench | 79.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 28.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4o mini better than Llama 3-70B?
Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-4o mini or Llama 3-70B better for coding?
Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4o mini and Llama 3-70B share?
28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.