Model comparison
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct vs o3-mini
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct and o3-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 36.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and o3-mini in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where o3-mini leads 75.1 to 65.9.
- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 36.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-18 | 2024-12-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding o3-mini leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.9 (#216), o3-mini: 40.8 (#132)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1272 | 1378 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 60.4% |
| SciCode | — | 39.8% |
| GSO | — | 1.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 38.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 82.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 48.2% | — |
| CadEval | — | 54% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —, o3-mini: 29.6 (#84)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 22.5% |
Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 25.0 (#152), o3-mini: 16.3 (#305)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1266 | 1366 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 34.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 17% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 89.6% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 70.6% |
| LMCA | — | 19% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 140.34 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.6 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.9% |
Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.5 (#182), o3-mini: 28.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1271 | 1396 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 76.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 96.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 12.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge o3-mini leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 34.1 (#199), o3-mini: 38.3 (#146)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1242 | 1364 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 77% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 15.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.9% |
Multilingual o3-mini leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 40.5 (#217), o3-mini: 45.7 (#164)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1263 | 1379 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1304 |
| LMArena French | — | 1334 |
| LMArena German | — | 1303 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1314 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1321 |
Instruction Following o3-mini leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 65.9 (#213), o3-mini: 75.1 (#72)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1252 | 1337 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 84.4% |
Long Context Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#215), o3-mini: 33.8 (#256)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1238 | 1343 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 50% |
Writing & Preference o3-mini leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 48.4 (#203), o3-mini: 50.3 (#182)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1283 | 1337 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1320 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 61.7% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 50.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct better than o3-mini?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct and o3-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.6 vs 36.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct or o3-mini better for coding?
o3-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct and o3-mini share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.