Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Llama 13b

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.4 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

64.4

Rank #6 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

23.9

Rank #344 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 13b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 74.7 to 13.4.
  • Llama 13b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Sol and Llama 13b specifications
GPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index64.423.9
Released2026-07-092023-02-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked6421

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 61.1 (#7), Llama 13b: 20.9 (#332)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
LMArena Coding1493683
DeepSWE72.7%—
FrontierCode47.5%—
CursorBench41.7%—
LMArena WebDev1619—
FrontierSWE32.2%—
SciCode57.1%—
WeirdML89.4%—
MirrorCode20%—
ALE-Bench2,177—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.2 (#7), Llama 13b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
APEX-Agents51.4%—
OSWorld 2.027.3%—
τ²-bench Banking46.9%—
PostTrainBench36.2%—
BALROG60%—
GBAEval52.6%—
GDP.pdf30.7%—
LMArena Search1257—
Vending-Bench 29,619—

Reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.7 (#6), Llama 13b: 13.4 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1481728
Epoch Capabilities Index161.99100.09
ARC-AGI-292.5%—
SimpleBench71.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67%—
NYT Connections (extended)93.8%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt32.3%—
Chess Puzzles64%—
EnigmaEval37.1%—
EBR-Bench44.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA59.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench93.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.5 (#7), Llama 13b: 24.4 (#259)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
LMArena Math1472838
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 482.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench83%—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—
GSM8K—20.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#16), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
GPQA Diamond93.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.4%—
LMArena Expert1517—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
MMLU—47.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.9 (#8), Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
LMArena Vision1281—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
Furniture Assembly56.7%—
LMArena Document1483—
ScienceQA—43.3%

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.4 (#32), Llama 13b: 16.8 (#292)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
LMArena Non-English1450819
LMArena Chinese1523—
LMArena French1475—
LMArena German1476—
LMArena Japanese1475—
LMArena Korean1434—
LMArena Russian1466—
LMArena Spanish1449—

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.8 (#16), Llama 13b: 36.9 (#300)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1480781

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.3 (#42), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
LMArena Longer Query1479—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.5 (#12), Llama 13b: 13.9 (#307)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 13b
LMArena Text1456834
LMArena Creative Writing1450794
LMArena Multi-Turn1456753
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1972—
EQ-Bench 41250—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Llama 13b?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 64.4 to 23.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.6 Sol or Llama 13b better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 61.1 versus 20.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Sol and Llama 13b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Sol has 64 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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