Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs Llama 3.1-405B

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #31 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.4

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.2 leads 59.8 to 17.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 96.1% for GPT-5.2 and 9.7% for Llama 3.1-405B.
  • Llama 3.1-405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
GPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index54.130.4
Released2025-12-112024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked6742

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 52.2 (#32), Llama 3.1-405B: 32.7 (#257)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
WeirdML72.2%21.4%
LMArena Coding14471291
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1415—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 40.0 (#24), Llama 3.1-405B: 20.9 (#131)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Banking32.2%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
Cybench—7.5%
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 50.1 (#33), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.4 (#293)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
SimpleBench45.8%23%
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%45%
LMArena Hard Prompts14451270
DTBench90.9%61.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45128.76
ForecastBench60.159.9
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
ARC-AGI-186.2%—
Chess Puzzles49%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA43.9%—
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
HellaSwag—89.2%
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.8 (#32), Llama 3.1-405B: 17.3 (#283)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.2 (#29), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#221)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
GPQA Diamond91.4%50.9%
LMArena Expert14451243
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
MMLU-Pro—72.3%
Confabulations—17.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—52.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
MMLU—84.5%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 50.9 (#7), Llama 3.1-405B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 53.6 (#63), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.9 (#209)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English14251248
LMArena Chinese14601242
LMArena French14561278
LMArena German14481252
LMArena Japanese14211208
LMArena Korean13901184
LMArena Russian14401265
LMArena Spanish14331259

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 74.9 (#83), Llama 3.1-405B: 66.1 (#209)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Instruction Following14171259
IFEval—81.1%

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#74), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#192)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query14281266
CL-bench18.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 67.0 (#30), Llama 3.1-405B: 39.1 (#246)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text14391284
LMArena Creative Writing14021262
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703870
LMArena Multi-Turn14581297
WildBench—78.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than Llama 3.1-405B?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.2 or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.2 versus 32.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and Llama 3.1-405B share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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