Model comparison

GPT-5 Mini vs Llama 13b

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.8

Rank #128 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Mini scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 13b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5 Mini leads 55.2 to 13.8.
  • Llama 13b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Mini and Llama 13b specifications
GPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index41.824.4
Released2025-08-072023-02-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$2—
Results tracked6021

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 40.1 (#146), Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
LMArena Coding1406683
SWE-bench Verified64.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)59.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual39.7%—
SciCode39.2%—
WeirdML52.7%—
ALE-Bench799.77—
AlgoTune1.38—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 31.1 (#70), Llama 13b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
Terminal-Bench34.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.5%—
Vending-Bench 2-31.18—

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 23.9 (#168), Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1380728
Epoch Capabilities Index145.52100.58
ARC-AGI-24.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark70.3%—
ARC-AGI-154.3%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
EnigmaEval8.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles10%—
DTBench80.5%—
LMCA34.2%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
ForecastBench61—
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 46.7 (#69), Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
LMArena Math1378838
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 412.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.7%—
ProofBench9%—
Omni-MATH72.2%—
MATH Level 597.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)27.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)6.3%—
GSM8K—20.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 45.6 (#86), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
GPQA Diamond75%—
Humanity's Last Exam19.4%—
SimpleQA Verified21.6%—
MMLU-Pro83.5%—
Confabulations13.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.9%—
GPQA (HELM)75.6%—
LMArena Expert1379—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
MMLU—47.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 35.6 (#85), Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
LMArena Vision1202—
VPCT40.2%—
ScienceQA—43.3%

Multilingual GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 48.9 (#137), Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
LMArena Non-English1363819
LMArena Chinese1385—
LMArena French1386—
LMArena German1366—
LMArena Japanese1341—
LMArena Korean1308—
LMArena Russian1362—
LMArena Spanish1355—

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 76.2 (#46), Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1357781
IFEval92.7%—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#132), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
Fiction.LiveBench69.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1355—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Mini leads

GPT-5 Mini: 55.2 (#148), Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 MiniLlama 13b
LMArena Text1373834
LMArena Creative Writing1325794
LMArena Multi-Turn1363753
Short-Story Creative Writing83.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1313—
WildBench85.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Mini better than Llama 13b?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 Mini or Llama 13b better for coding?

GPT-5 Mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Mini and Llama 13b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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