# Llama 3-70B vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-70b-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o1 leads 34.9 to 12.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 22.6% for Llama 3-70B and 94.7% for o1.
- Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 28.5 | 40.6 |
| Rank | 317 | 140 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $15 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)
- o1: 45.7 (#64)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1206 | 1367 |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | 89% |
| MBPP+ | 69% | 80.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.5% | — |
| CadEval | — | 56% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)
- o1: 24.3 (#111)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 5% | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)
- o1: 27.5 (#103)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1195 | 1372 |
| DTBench | 54.2% | 74.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.91 | 141.92 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 35.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |
| WinoGrande | 83.5% | — |

## Math

- Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)
- o1: 34.9 (#150)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | 73.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1218 | 1388 |
| MATH Level 5 | 22.6% | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)
- o1: 41.5 (#101)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 76.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1149 | 1362 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| MMLU | 79.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 3-70B: —
- o1: 33.6 (#87)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)
- o1: 48.8 (#137)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1142 | 1359 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1114 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1231 | 1343 |
| LMArena German | 1169 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1017 | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | 1017 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1159 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1241 | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)
- o1: 75.0 (#82)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1194 | 1368 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |

## Long Context

- Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1174 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)
- o1: 55.8 (#139)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1221 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1210 | 1347 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1223 | 1368 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3-70B better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 3-70B or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.7 versus 35.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and o1 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.