Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Llama 3-70B

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 leads 55.0 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for GPT-5 and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Llama 3-70B specifications
GPT-5Llama 3-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index50.928.8
Released2025-08-072024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6931

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14361206
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
SciCode42.9%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
Cybench—5%
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14161195
DTBench90.7%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index150122.93
ForecastBench61.457.1
ARC-AGI-29.9%—
SimpleBench56.7%—
ARC-AGI-165.7%—
CritPt12.6%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA40%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%4.3%
LMArena Math14071218
MATH Level 598.1%22.6%
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%—

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond86.2%40.6%
LMArena Expert14191149
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
MMLU-Pro86.3%—
Confabulations10.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)79.2%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1232—
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English13971142
LMArena Chinese14221114
LMArena French14101232
LMArena German14161169
LMArena Japanese14091017
LMArena Korean13601017
LMArena Russian14061159
LMArena Spanish13991241

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13881194
IFEval87.5%—

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query13991174
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 3-70B
LMArena Text14061221
LMArena Creative Writing13651210
LMArena Multi-Turn14261223
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627—
WildBench85.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Llama 3-70B?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5 or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and Llama 3-70B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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