Model comparison

GPT-5.1-Codex vs Llama 3-70B

GPT-5.1-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1-Codex OpenAI

38.6

Rank #186 Reported

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.1-Codex leads 30.3 to 12.8.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1-Codex and Llama 3-70B specifications
GPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index38.628.8
Released2025-11-122024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked631

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1-Codex leads

GPT-5.1-Codex: 41.9 (#116), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1337—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
LMArena Coding—1206
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench1,245—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.1-Codex leads

GPT-5.1-Codex: 38.0 (#33), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
Terminal-Bench60.4%—
Cybench—5%
METR Time Horizons70.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1195
DTBench—54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.93
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math GPT-5.1-Codex leads

GPT-5.1-Codex: 30.3 (#235), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
ProofBench9%—
LMArena Math—1218
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
LMArena Expert—1149
MMLU—79.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English—1142
LMArena Chinese—1114
LMArena French—1232
LMArena German—1169
LMArena Japanese—1017
LMArena Korean—1017
LMArena Russian—1159
LMArena Spanish—1241

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following—1194

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query—1174

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.1-Codex: —, Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1-CodexLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text—1221
LMArena Creative Writing—1210
LMArena Multi-Turn—1223

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1-Codex better than Llama 3-70B?

GPT-5.1-Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.1-Codex or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

GPT-5.1-Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1-Codex and Llama 3-70B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1-Codex has 6 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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