Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Llama 3.1-405B

Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.7

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o 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 writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 to 38.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 17.8% for GPT-4o and 23% for Llama 3.1-405B.
  • Llama 3.1-405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
GPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index28.630.7
Released2024-05-132024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7242

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3.1-405B leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
WeirdML25.1%21.4%
LMArena Coding12971291
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
TheAgentCompany8.6%7.4%
Cybench12.5%7.5%
GDPval9.9%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1-405B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
SimpleBench17.8%23%
LMArena Hard Prompts12811269
DTBench64.5%61.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97128.75
ForecastBench57.759.9
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—45%
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
HellaSwag—89.2%
LiveBench55.3%—
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math Llama 3.1-405B leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%9.7%
Omni-MATH29.3%24.9%
LMArena Math12851281
MATH Level 553.3%49.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Llama 3.1-405B leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
GPQA Diamond49.2%50.9%
MMLU-Pro71.3%72.3%
Confabulations15.3%17.6%
GPQA (HELM)52%52.2%
LMArena Expert12501243
MMLU88.1%84.5%
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Llama 3.1-405B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English12831248
LMArena Chinese12771242
LMArena French13041279
LMArena German12821252
LMArena Japanese12571208
LMArena Korean12341184
LMArena Russian12861265
LMArena Spanish12921260

Instruction Following Too close to call

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
IFEval81.7%81.1%
LMArena Instruction Following12781259
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query12891266
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text13001284
LMArena Creative Writing12921262
WildBench82.8%78.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn13021297
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—870
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

Llama 3.1-405B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.1 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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