Model comparison

Llama 3.1-70B vs Llama 3-70B

Llama 3.1-70B and Llama 3-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.4 vs 28.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3.1-70B Meta

29.4

Rank #299 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.5

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1-70B scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3-70B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama 3-70B leads 43.0 to 35.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 36.7% for Llama 3.1-70B and 22.6% for Llama 3-70B.

Side by side

Llama 3.1-70B and Llama 3-70B specifications
Llama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index29.428.5
Released2024-07-232024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked3531

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 29.8 (#292), Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%43.6%
LMArena Coding12601206
BigCodeBench Complete54.8%54.5%
WeirdML9%—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.1-70B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 24.9 (#104), Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
TheAgentCompany6.9%—
Cybench—5%
BALROG27.9%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1-70B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 20.8 (#215), Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12411195
DTBench60%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index125.91122.91
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
LMCA14.8%—
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Too close to call

Llama 3.1-70B: 12.7 (#298), Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20253.6%4.3%
LMArena Math12521218
MATH Level 536.7%22.6%
Omni-MATH21%—

Knowledge Llama 3.1-70B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 24.1 (#264), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond44.2%40.6%
LMArena Expert12091149
MMLU80.1%79.3%
MMLU-Pro65.3%—
GPQA (HELM)42.6%—

Multilingual Llama 3.1-70B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 38.9 (#220), Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English12191142
LMArena Chinese12151114
LMArena French12601231
LMArena German12221169
LMArena Japanese11321017
LMArena Korean11401017
LMArena Russian12341159
LMArena Spanish12531241

Instruction Following Llama 3.1-70B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 65.5 (#218), Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following12311194
IFEval82.1%—

Long Context Llama 3.1-70B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#208), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query12411174

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 3.1-70B: 35.6 (#262), Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-70BLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text12611221
LMArena Creative Writing12321210
LMArena Multi-Turn12561223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing784—
WildBench75.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.1-70B better than Llama 3-70B?

Llama 3.1-70B and Llama 3-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.4 vs 28.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 3.1-70B or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 29.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1-70B and Llama 3-70B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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