Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Sol vs Llama 2-13B

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 74.8 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 64% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 0% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Sol and Llama 2-13B specifications
GPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index65.029.6
Released2026-07-092023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked6532

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding14981062
DeepSWE72.7%—
FrontierCode47.5%—
CursorBench41.7%—
LMArena WebDev1618—
FrontierSWE32.2%—
SciCode57.1%—
GSO76.5%—
WeirdML89.4%—
MirrorCode20%—
ALE-Bench2,177—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
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: 74.8 (#8), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles64%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14841051
DTBench96%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index161.66106.17
ARC-AGI-292.5%—
SimpleBench71.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark67%—
NYT Connections (extended)93.8%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt32.3%—
EnigmaEval37.1%—
EBR-Bench44.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles58%—
LMCA59.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench93.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
LMArena Math14741065
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)89.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 482.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench83%—
FrontierMath Erdős0%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
LMArena Expert15161030
GPQA Diamond93.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.4%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1281—
Blueprint-Bench 233.6%—
Furniture Assembly56.7%—
LMArena Document1483—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English14521024
LMArena Chinese15271001
LMArena French14771044
LMArena German14761009
LMArena Japanese1471894
LMArena Korean1442953
LMArena Russian14681055
LMArena Spanish14411087

Instruction Following GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following14821045

Long Context GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query14801064

Writing & Preference GPT-5.6 Sol leads

GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 SolLlama 2-13B
LMArena Text14571084
LMArena Creative Writing14481047
LMArena Multi-Turn14601050
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1972—
EQ-Bench 41250—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Llama 2-13B?

GPT-5.6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 65.0 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.6 Sol or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Sol and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Sol has 65 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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