Model comparison

GPT-5.1 vs Llama 2-13B

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5.1 leads 64.5 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 90.1% for GPT-5.1 and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1 and Llama 2-13B specifications
GPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index49.029.6
Released2025-11-132023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6332

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Coding14541062
SWE-bench Verified68%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1395—
SciCode43.3%—
GSO13.7%—
WeirdML60.8%—
LiveBench Coding72.5%—
ALE-Bench1,192—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
Terminal-Bench47.6%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
LMArena Search1199—
Vending-Bench 21,473—

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles32%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14571051
DTBench90.1%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.64106.17
ARC-AGI-217.6%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
ARC-AGI-172.8%—
CritPt4.9%—
EnigmaEval11.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning95.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
LiveBench Data Analysis72.1%—
LMCA43.9%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
ForecastBench58.1—
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
LiveBench78.8%—
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Math14471065
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math94.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)31%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Expert14701030
GPQA Diamond87.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam23.7%—
SimpleQA Verified48%—
MMLU-Pro57.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
GPQA (HELM)44.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1250—
VPCT58.7%—
LMArena Document1403—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English14311024
LMArena Chinese14951001
LMArena French14501044
LMArena German14381009
LMArena Japanese1453894
LMArena Korean1401953
LMArena Russian14351055
LMArena Spanish14331087

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following14431045
LiveBench Instruction Following93.3%—
IFEval93.5%—

Long Context GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query14471064
CL-bench23.7%—
CL-bench Life17.3%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-13B
LMArena Text14431084
LMArena Creative Writing14271047
LMArena Multi-Turn14501050
WildBench86.3%—
LiveBench Language80.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1 better than Llama 2-13B?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.1 or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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