Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Llama 3.1-405B

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.7

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 leads 55.0 to 18.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for GPT-5 and 9.7% for Llama 3.1-405B.
  • Llama 3.1-405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
GPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index50.930.7
Released2025-08-072024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6942

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
WeirdML60.7%21.4%
LMArena Coding14361291
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
Cybench—7.5%
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
SimpleBench56.7%23%
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%45%
LMArena Hard Prompts14161269
DTBench90.7%61.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index150128.75
ForecastBench61.459.9
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA40%—
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
HellaSwag—89.2%
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%9.7%
Omni-MATH64.7%24.9%
LMArena Math14071281
MATH Level 598.1%49.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
ProofBench18%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
GPQA Diamond86.2%50.9%
MMLU-Pro86.3%72.3%
Confabulations10.3%17.6%
GPQA (HELM)79.2%52.2%
LMArena Expert14191243
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
MMLU—84.5%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Llama 3.1-405B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English13971248
LMArena Chinese14221242
LMArena French14101279
LMArena German14161252
LMArena Japanese14091208
LMArena Korean13601184
LMArena Russian14061265
LMArena Spanish13991260

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
IFEval87.5%81.1%
LMArena Instruction Following13881259

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query13991266
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text14061284
LMArena Creative Writing13651262
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627870
WildBench85.7%78.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn14261297
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Llama 3.1-405B?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Llama 3.1-405B share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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