Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Llama 2-70B

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 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-5.5 leads 81.7 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for GPT-5.5 and 0% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Llama 2-70B specifications
GPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index63.424.4
Released2026-04-232023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$30—
Results tracked7135

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14941079
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
LMArena WebDev1513—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
WeirdML84.9%—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
Terminal-Bench84.7%—
APEX-Agents55.1%—
OSWorld 2.013%—
Remote Labor Index6.3%—
τ²-bench Banking44.6%—
DeepResearch Bench54%—
PostTrainBench27.2%—
ExploitBench47.4%—
GBAEval53.2%—
GDP.pdf26%—
LMArena Search1242—
Vending-Bench 27,524—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14891073
DTBench96%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index159.1113.79
ForecastBench60.651.4
ARC-AGI-285%—
SimpleBench69%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
ARC-AGI-195%—
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
EBR-Bench34.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond94%26.3%
LMArena Expert15081039
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English14671045
LMArena Chinese1533995
LMArena French14861090
LMArena German14801041
LMArena Japanese1498927
LMArena Korean1460964
LMArena Russian14731083
LMArena Spanish14681143

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14791071

Long Context GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query14841062
CL-bench Life22.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text14721115
LMArena Creative Writing14551075
LMArena Multi-Turn14761088
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than Llama 2-70B?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.5 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Llama 2-70B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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