# Llama 2-70B vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-70b-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-70B scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1 leads 41.5 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 3.3% for Llama 2-70B and 94.7% for o1.
- Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 24.1 | 40.6 |
| Rank | 343 | 140 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $15 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281)
- o1: 45.7 (#64)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1079 | 1367 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 2-70B: —
- o1: 24.3 (#111)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324)
- o1: 27.5 (#103)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | 1372 |
| DTBench | 41.6% | 74.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.59 | 141.92 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 64.9% | — |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | 50% | — |
| ForecastBench | 51.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | 85.3% | — |
| LAMBADA | 78.9% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |
| PIQA | 82.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 80.2% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320)
- o1: 34.9 (#150)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0% | 73.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1091 | 1388 |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.3% | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |
| GSM8K | 69.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305)
- o1: 41.5 (#101)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 26.3% | 76.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1039 | 1362 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.6% | — |
| MMLU | 69.9% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 60.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 2-70B: —
- o1: 33.6 (#87)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269)
- o1: 48.8 (#137)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1045 | 1359 |
| LMArena Chinese | 994 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1089 | 1343 |
| LMArena German | 1041 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 927 | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | 964 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1083 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1142 | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273)
- o1: 75.0 (#82)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1071 | 1368 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1062 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274)
- o1: 55.8 (#139)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1115 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1075 | 1347 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1088 | 1368 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-70B better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 2-70B or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.7 versus 30.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-70B and o1 share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-70B has 35 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.