Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Llama 3.2 90B

GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Llama 3.2 90B leads 21.7 to 9.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GeoBench: 71% for GPT-4o and 52% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
GPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index28.627.5
Released2024-05-132024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked729

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1297—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
BALROG32.3%27.3%
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
EnigmaEval0.8%0.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97125.5
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1281—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Too close to call

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%2.6%
MATH Level 553.3%39.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
LMArena Math1285—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond49.2%41%
MMLU88.1%80.3%
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
LMArena Expert1250—

Multimodal GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision11371000
GeoBench71%52%
Video-MME71.9%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1277—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1278—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1289—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1300—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1302—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Llama 3.2 90B?

GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Llama 3.2 90B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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