Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Llama 2-70B

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

47.8

Rank #49 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.1

Rank #343 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 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 Grok 4 leads 53.7 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 0% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 and Llama 2-70B specifications
Grok 4Llama 2-70B
ProviderxAIMeta
Noometry Index47.824.1
Released2025-07-092023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4835

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 49.9 (#44), Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14081079
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.1 (#62), Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.9 (#59), Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14091073
Epoch Capabilities Index146.46113.59
ForecastBench60.951.4
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
DTBench—41.6%
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 46.5 (#58), Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%0%
LMArena Math14221091
Omni-MATH60.3%—
MATH Level 5—3.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.7 (#50), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond87%26.3%
LMArena Expert14171039
MMLU-Pro85.1%—
Confabulations12.4%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.1 (#89), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1211—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 52.0 (#98), Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English14031045
LMArena Chinese1428994
LMArena French14181089
LMArena German14291041
LMArena Japanese1396927
LMArena Korean1376964
LMArena Russian14091083
LMArena Spanish14191142

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.4 (#4), Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13871071
IFEval94.9%—

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query14091062
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.7 (#111), Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text14121115
LMArena Creative Writing13971075
LMArena Multi-Turn14161088
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—
WildBench79.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Llama 2-70B?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.9 versus 30.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Llama 2-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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