Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Llama 2-7B

GPT-4o and Llama 2-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.6 vs 29.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 2-7B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 to 28.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 13% for GPT-4o and 0% for Llama 2-7B.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Llama 2-7B specifications
GPT-4oLlama 2-7B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index28.629.1
Released2024-05-132023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7229

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-7B leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
LMArena Coding12971002
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Llama 2-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Llama 2-7B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
Chess Puzzles13%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts12811009
Epoch Capabilities Index128.9799.06
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
ForecastBench57.7—
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
LiveBench55.3%—
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Llama 2-7B leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
LMArena Math12851042
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Too close to call

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
LMArena Expert12501036
MMLU88.1%45.8%
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
ScienceQA88.5%43.1%
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1283973
LMArena Chinese1277973
LMArena French1304970
LMArena German1282978
LMArena Russian1286995
LMArena Spanish12921007
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following12781006
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1289999
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-7B
LMArena Text13001053
LMArena Creative Writing12921033
LMArena Multi-Turn13021029
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Llama 2-7B?

GPT-4o and Llama 2-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.6 vs 29.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4o or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Llama 2-7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.2 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Llama 2-7B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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