Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs o4-mini

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

o4-mini OpenAI

41.6

Rank #132 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 0 categories and o4-mini in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o4-mini leads 54.0 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 77.6% for o4-mini.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and o4-mini specifications
Llama 2-13Bo4-mini
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index29.641.6
Released2023-07-182025-04-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.10
Output $ / M tokens—$4.40
Results tracked3260

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Category by category

Coding o4-mini leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), o4-mini: 40.9 (#127)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
LMArena Coding10621368
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—45%
Aider Polyglot—72%
GSO—3.6%
WeirdML—52.6%
CadEval—62%
ALE-Bench—826.17
AlgoTune—1.72

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, o4-mini: 32.6 (#61)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—53.2%
GDPval—25.3%
METR Time Horizons—63.9%

Reasoning o4-mini leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), o4-mini: 24.6 (#162)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
Chess Puzzles0%26%
LMArena Hard Prompts10511351
DTBench42.2%77.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index106.17145.64
ARC-AGI-2—6.1%
SimpleBench—38.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67.6%
ARC-AGI-1—58.7%
CritPt—0.6%
EnigmaEval—9.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
LMCA—26.5%
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%—
ForecastBench—61.8
HellaSwag80.7%—
LAMBADA76.5%—
PIQA80.8%—
WinoGrande72.8%—

Math o4-mini leads

Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), o4-mini: 40.8 (#89)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
LMArena Math10651389
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—36.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.7%
Omni-MATH—72%
MATH Level 5—97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—24.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—6.3%
GSM8K36.9%—

Knowledge o4-mini leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), o4-mini: 43.6 (#91)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
LMArena Expert10301343
GPQA Diamond—79.6%
Humanity's Last Exam—18.1%
SimpleQA Verified—19.6%
MMLU-Pro—82%
Confabulations—15.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—18.6%
GPQA (HELM)—73.5%
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%—
BoolQ82.4%—
MMLU55.6%—
OpenBookQA57%—
TriviaQA79.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, o4-mini: 40.2 (#49)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
LMArena Vision—1194
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—57.5%
ScienceQA55.8%—

Multilingual o4-mini leads

Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), o4-mini: 47.0 (#154)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
LMArena Non-English10241337
LMArena Chinese10011354
LMArena French10441364
LMArena German10091336
LMArena Japanese8941308
LMArena Korean9531312
LMArena Russian10551334
LMArena Spanish10871347

Instruction Following o4-mini leads

Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), o4-mini: 75.2 (#68)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
LMArena Instruction Following10451321
IFEval—92.8%

Long Context o4-mini leads

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), o4-mini: 45.5 (#33)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
LMArena Longer Query10641315
Fiction.LiveBench—77.8%

Writing & Preference o4-mini leads

Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), o4-mini: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13Bo4-mini
LMArena Text10841353
LMArena Creative Writing10471294
LMArena Multi-Turn10501350
Short-Story Creative Writing—75%
WildBench—85.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than o4-mini?

o4-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.6 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-13B or o4-mini better for coding?

o4-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.9 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and o4-mini share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and o4-mini has 60.

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