Model comparison

GPT-5 Nano vs Llama 2-13B

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.4

Rank #234 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Nano scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 2-13B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-5 Nano leads 75.2 to 53.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 27% for GPT-5 Nano and 0% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Nano and Llama 2-13B specifications
GPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index33.429.1
Released2025-08-072023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.05—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked4832

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248), Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding13511062
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)34.8%—
WeirdML38.1%—
ALE-Bench718.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
Terminal-Bench21.8%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard51.5%—

Reasoning GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291), Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles27%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts13291051
DTBench62.7%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index139.39105.8
ARC-AGI-22.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark62.2%—
ARC-AGI-120.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles9%—
LMCA7.9%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
ForecastBench59.1—
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Too close to call

GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221), Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
LMArena Math13181065
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)20%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202581.1%—
ProofBench12%—
Omni-MATH54.6%—
MATH Level 595.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)8.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166), Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
LMArena Expert13211030
GPQA Diamond69.4%—
SimpleQA Verified11.7%—
MMLU-Pro77.8%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.5%—
GPQA (HELM)67.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1159—
VPCT37.2%—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167), Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English13131024
LMArena Chinese13551001
LMArena German13291009
LMArena Korean1269953
LMArena Russian12961055
LMArena Spanish13601086
LMArena French—1043
LMArena Japanese—894

Instruction Following GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72), Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following13061046
IFEval93.2%—

Long Context Llama 2-13B leads

GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query13131064
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 Nano leads

GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244), Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 NanoLlama 2-13B
LMArena Text13201085
LMArena Creative Writing12501047
LMArena Multi-Turn13111050
EQ-Bench Creative Writing705—
WildBench80.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Nano better than Llama 2-13B?

GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 Nano or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

GPT-5 Nano scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.3 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Nano and Llama 2-13B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Nano has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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