Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Llama 2-70B

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5 leads 56.6 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 98.1% for GPT-5 and 3.3% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Llama 2-70B specifications
GPT-5Llama 2-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index50.924.4
Released2025-08-072023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6935

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14361079
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 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
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 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14161073
DTBench90.7%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index150113.79
ForecastBench61.451.4
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA40%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%0%
LMArena Math14071091
MATH Level 598.1%3.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
ProofBench18%—
Omni-MATH64.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond86.2%26.3%
LMArena Expert14191039
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English13971045
LMArena Chinese1422995
LMArena French14101090
LMArena German14161041
LMArena Japanese1409927
LMArena Korean1360964
LMArena Russian14061083
LMArena Spanish13991143

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13881071
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query13991062
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text14061115
LMArena Creative Writing13651075
LMArena Multi-Turn14261088
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Llama 2-70B?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Llama 2-70B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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