Model comparison

Llama 3.2 90B vs o1-mini

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 90B scores higher in 2 categories and o1-mini in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where o1-mini leads 35.4 to 11.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B and 89.2% for o1-mini.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 3.2 90B and o1-mini specifications
Llama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index27.534.0
Released2024-09-242024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
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Results tracked939

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
WeirdML—36.3%
LiveBench Coding—48%
LMArena Coding—1362
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
Cybench—10%
BALROG27.3%—

Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
Epoch Capabilities Index125.5135.82
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—18.1%
ARC-AGI-1—14%
EnigmaEval0.4%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1333
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LiveBench—57.8%

Math o1-mini leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.6%46.9%
MATH Level 539.4%89.2%
LiveBench Math—62%
LMArena Math—1358
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge o1-mini leads

Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
GPQA Diamond41%62.4%
Confabulations—18.6%
LMArena Expert—1316
MMLU80.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
LMArena Vision1000—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
LMArena Non-English—1289
LMArena Chinese—1314
LMArena French—1293
LMArena German—1278
LMArena Japanese—1245
LMArena Korean—1223
LMArena Russian—1283
LMArena Spanish—1303

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1304

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
LMArena Longer Query—1320

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3.2 90B: —, o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 90Bo1-mini
LMArena Text—1317
LMArena Creative Writing—1244
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.2 90B better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 90B and o1-mini share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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