# Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct vs o3

> o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-1-nemotron-70b-instruct-vs-o3
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and o3 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o3 leads 54.6 to 34.1.
- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | NVIDIA | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 47.5 |
| Rank | 203 | 61 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $8 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.9 (#216)
- o3: 46.8 (#64)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1272 | 1408 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 62.3% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 58.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 81.3% |
| GSO | — | 8.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 38.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 48.2% | — |
| CadEval | — | 74% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 933.55 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —
- o3: 34.5 (#44)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 63% |
| GDPval | — | 30.8% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 45.2% |
| OSWorld | — | 23% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1144 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 65.4% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 25.0 (#152)
- o3: 32.0 (#78)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1266 | 1402 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 6.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 53.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 60.8% |
| CritPt | — | 1.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 38% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 13.1% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 29% |
| DTBench | — | 84.8% |
| LMCA | — | 39.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.86 |
| ForecastBench | — | 62.5 |

## Math

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.5 (#182)
- o3: 50.2 (#58)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1271 | 1426 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 33.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 84.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 71.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 18.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 34.1 (#199)
- o3: 54.6 (#52)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1242 | 1402 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 81.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 20.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 49.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 75.3% |

## Multimodal

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —
- o3: 41.4 (#36)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1214 |
| GeoBench | — | 74% |
| VPCT | — | 52% |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 40.5 (#217)
- o3: 51.7 (#105)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1401 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1263 | 1437 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1406 |
| LMArena French | — | 1430 |
| LMArena German | — | 1420 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1403 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1370 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1395 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 65.9 (#213)
- o3: 72.8 (#127)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1252 | 1368 |
| IFEval | — | 86.9% |

## Long Context

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#215)
- o3: 53.3 (#6)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1238 | 1372 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 88.9% |
| CL-bench | — | 17.8% |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 48.4 (#203)
- o3: 63.5 (#64)

| Benchmark | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1283 | 1410 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1359 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1405 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1676 |
| WildBench | — | 86.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct better than o3?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct or o3 better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 35.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct and o3 share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.