Model comparison

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 169× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher in 1 category and o1 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 26.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 5.1% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and 73.3% for o1.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • o1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and o1 specifications
Llama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index30.640.9
Released2024-12-062024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K200K
Max output4K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$15
Output $ / M tokens$0.32$60
Results tracked4352

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
WeirdML14.4%47.6%
LiveBench Coding36.6%69.7%
LMArena Coding12681367
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
SciCode26%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard31.9%—
Cybench—10%
BALROG23%—
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
SimpleBench19.9%41.7%
LiveBench Reasoning50.8%91.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts12571371
DTBench59.5%74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis49.5%65.5%
LMCA17.5%22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.33141.91
LiveBench50.2%75.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
ForecastBench58.6—

Math o1 leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20255.1%73.3%
LiveBench Math42.2%80.3%
LMArena Math12671388
MATH Level 541.6%94.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge o1 leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
GPQA Diamond47.4%76.8%
Confabulations22.8%11.7%
LMArena Expert12251361
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.1%—
MMLU86.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
LMArena Non-English12361358
LMArena Chinese12171394
LMArena French12811344
LMArena German12511337
LMArena Japanese11501346
LMArena Korean11431396
LMArena Russian12521356
LMArena Spanish12701345

Instruction Following o1 leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
LiveBench Instruction Following82.7%81.5%
LMArena Instruction Following12421367

Long Context o1 leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%83.3%
LMArena Longer Query12561378

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama-3.3-70B-Instructo1
LMArena Text12741366
LMArena Creative Writing12501348
LMArena Multi-Turn12801369
LiveBench Language39.2%65.4%
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 169× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or o1?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

o1 does, with 200K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct and o1 share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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