Model comparison

GPT-5.1 vs Llama 2-70B

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.1 leads 52.2 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 88.6% for GPT-5.1 and 0% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1 and Llama 2-70B specifications
GPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index49.024.4
Released2025-11-132023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6335

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14541079
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 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
Terminal-Bench47.6%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
LMArena Search1199—
Vending-Bench 21,473—

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14571073
DTBench90.1%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.64113.79
ForecastBench58.151.4
ARC-AGI-217.6%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
ARC-AGI-172.8%—
CritPt4.9%—
Chess Puzzles32%—
EnigmaEval11.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning95.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
LiveBench Data Analysis72.1%—
LMCA43.9%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
LiveBench78.8%—
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.6%0%
LMArena Math14471091
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math94.5%—
MATH Level 5—3.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)31%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond87.6%26.3%
LMArena Expert14701039
Humanity's Last Exam23.7%—
SimpleQA Verified48%—
MMLU-Pro57.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
GPQA (HELM)44.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1250—
VPCT58.7%—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English14311045
LMArena Chinese1495995
LMArena French14501090
LMArena German14381041
LMArena Japanese1453927
LMArena Korean1401964
LMArena Russian14351083
LMArena Spanish14331143

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14431071
LiveBench Instruction Following93.3%—
IFEval93.5%—

Long Context GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query14471062
CL-bench23.7%—
CL-bench Life17.3%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text14431115
LMArena Creative Writing14271075
LMArena Multi-Turn14501088
WildBench86.3%—
LiveBench Language80.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1 better than Llama 2-70B?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.1 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Llama 2-70B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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