Model comparison

GPT-5 Pro vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 266× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Pro OpenAI

46.4

Rank #64 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 Pro leads 48.5 to 15.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 60.4% for GPT-5 Pro and 14.4% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $120 for GPT-5 Pro.
  • GPT-5 Pro accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Pro and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
GPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index46.430.6
Released2025-10-062024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K128K
Max output272K4K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$120$0.32
Results tracked1243

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 44.0 (#80), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
WeirdML60.4%14.4%
SciCode—26%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
LMArena Coding—1268
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
AlgoTune1.31—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
BALROG—23%

Reasoning GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 38.9 (#62), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SimpleBench61.6%19.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index150.28127.33
ARC-AGI-218.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark76.8%—
ARC-AGI-170.2%—
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval18.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1257
DTBench—59.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
LMCA—17.5%
ForecastBench—58.6
LiveBench—50.2%

Math GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 48.5 (#63), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 419.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.1%
LiveBench Math—42.2%
LMArena Math—1267
MATH Level 5—41.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 56.7 (#42), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
GPQA Diamond—47.4%
Humanity's Last Exam31.6%—
Confabulations—22.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.1%
LMArena Expert—1225
MMLU—86.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1236
LMArena Chinese—1217
LMArena French—1281
LMArena German—1251
LMArena Japanese—1150
LMArena Korean—1143
LMArena Russian—1252
LMArena Spanish—1270

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1242

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1256

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text—1274
LMArena Creative Writing—1250
LMArena Multi-Turn—1280
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Pro better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 266× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Pro or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Pro lists at $15 and $120.

Is GPT-5 Pro or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

GPT-5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Pro does, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Pro and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Pro has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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