Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs Llama 3-70B

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.2 leads 60.0 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 96.1% for GPT-5.2 and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and Llama 3-70B specifications
GPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index54.128.8
Released2025-12-112024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked6731

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14471206
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1416—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
WeirdML72.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Banking32.2%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
Cybench—5%
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14451195
DTBench90.9%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45122.93
ForecastBench60.157.1
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
SimpleBench45.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
ARC-AGI-186.2%—
Chess Puzzles49%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA43.9%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond91.4%40.6%
LMArena Expert14451149
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14251142
LMArena Chinese14601114
LMArena French14551232
LMArena German14481169
LMArena Japanese14201017
LMArena Korean13921017
LMArena Russian14401159
LMArena Spanish14331241

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14171194

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14281174
CL-bench18.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-70B
LMArena Text14391221
LMArena Creative Writing14011210
LMArena Multi-Turn14581223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than Llama 3-70B?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.2 or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and Llama 3-70B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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