Model comparison
GPT-5.1 vs Llama 3.2 90B
GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.1 leads 50.3 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 88.6% for GPT-5.1 and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
- Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 48.8 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2025-11-13 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 400K | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 63 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
GPT-5.1: 46.9 (#59), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 68% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 66% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1395 | — |
| SciCode | 43.3% | — |
| GSO | 13.7% | — |
| WeirdML | 60.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 72.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,192 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 32.5 (#55), Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 47.6% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 42.8% | — |
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |
| LMArena Search | 1199 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 1,473 | — |
Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 39.9 (#50), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | 11.2% | 0.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 149.66 | 125.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 17.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 53.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 72.8% | — |
| CritPt | 4.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 32% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 95.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1457 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| DTBench | 90.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 72.1% | — |
| LMCA | 43.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 78.8% | — |
Math GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 50.3 (#45), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.6% | 2.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 94.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1446 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 31% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 12.5% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 50.5 (#65), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.6% | 41% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 23.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 48% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 57.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1470 | — |
| MMLU | — | 80.3% |
Multimodal GPT-5.1 leads
GPT-5.1: 44.0 (#17), Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1250 | 1000 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| VPCT | 58.7% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1403 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-5.1: 54.0 (#51), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | — |
| LMArena French | 1451 | — |
| LMArena German | 1439 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1453 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1401 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1435 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1430 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-5.1: 84.0 (#1), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 93.3% | — |
| IFEval | 93.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1442 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | 23.7% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 17.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1448 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-5.1: 64.7 (#53), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1 | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1443 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1427 | — |
| WildBench | 86.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1449 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 80.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5.1 better than Llama 3.2 90B?
GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.8 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Llama 3.2 90B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.