Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Llama 2-13B

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-5 leads 69.5 to 32.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 90.7% for GPT-5 and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Llama 2-13B specifications
GPT-5Llama 2-13B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index50.929.6
Released2025-08-072023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6932

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Coding14361062
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles37%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14161051
DTBench90.7%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index150106.17
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA40%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
ForecastBench61.4—
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Math14071065
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%—
ProofBench18%—
Omni-MATH64.7%—
MATH Level 598.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Expert14191030
GPQA Diamond86.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English13971024
LMArena Chinese14221001
LMArena French14101044
LMArena German14161009
LMArena Japanese1409894
LMArena Korean1360953
LMArena Russian14061055
LMArena Spanish13991087

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following13881045
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query13991064
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-13B
LMArena Text14061084
LMArena Creative Writing13651047
LMArena Multi-Turn14261050
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

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

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

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

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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