Model comparison
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 vs o3-mini
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 and o3-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.7 vs 36.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 scores higher in 4 categories and o3-mini in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where o3-mini leads 29.6 to 15.7.
- Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 36.7 | 36.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 11 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding o3-mini leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 38.4 (#177), o3-mini: 40.8 (#132)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1312 | 1378 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 60.4% |
| SciCode | — | 39.8% |
| GSO | — | 1.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 82.7% |
| CadEval | — | 54% |
Agentic & Tool Use o3-mini leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 15.7 (#149), o3-mini: 29.6 (#84)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 10% | — |
| Cybench | — | 22.5% |
Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 26.3 (#134), o3-mini: 16.3 (#305)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1316 | 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 Ultra 253b v1 leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 37.5 (#152), o3-mini: 28.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1360 | 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 Not comparable
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: —, o3-mini: 38.3 (#146)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 77% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 15.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1364 |
Multilingual o3-mini leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 43.1 (#187), o3-mini: 45.7 (#164)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1282 | 1319 |
| LMArena Russian | 1284 | 1304 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1379 |
| LMArena French | — | 1334 |
| LMArena German | — | 1303 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1314 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1321 |
Instruction Following o3-mini leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 69.0 (#178), o3-mini: 75.1 (#72)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1308 | 1337 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 84.4% |
Long Context Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 39.5 (#177), o3-mini: 33.8 (#256)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1299 | 1343 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 50% |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 leads
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 52.2 (#175), o3-mini: 50.3 (#182)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1320 | 1337 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1314 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1317 | 1320 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 61.7% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 50.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 better than o3-mini?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 and o3-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.7 vs 36.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 or o3-mini better for coding?
o3-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 and o3-mini share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has 11 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.