Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs Llama 3-8B

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-8B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.2 leads 59.3 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 96.1% for GPT-5.2 and 1.9% for Llama 3-8B.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and Llama 3-8B specifications
GPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index54.125.5
Released2025-12-112024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked6734

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
LMArena Coding14471152
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1416—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
WeirdML72.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—31.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—36.9%
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—
HumanEval+—56.7%
MBPP+—54.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24), Llama 3-8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
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%—
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 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
Chess Puzzles49%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14451133
DTBench90.9%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45116.45
ForecastBench60.158.6
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
SimpleBench45.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
ARC-AGI-186.2%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA43.9%—
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
WinoGrande—75.7%

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
GPQA Diamond91.4%26.1%
LMArena Expert14451113
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7), Llama 3-8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English14251098
LMArena Chinese14601076
LMArena French14551159
LMArena German14481104
LMArena Japanese1420967
LMArena Korean13921004
LMArena Russian14401109
LMArena Spanish14331173

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following14171127

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query14281128
CL-bench18.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Llama 3-8B
LMArena Text14391166
LMArena Creative Writing14011150
LMArena Multi-Turn14581152
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than Llama 3-8B?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.2 or Llama 3-8B better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and Llama 3-8B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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