# Llama 3-8B vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-8b-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-8B 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 7.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 6.1% for Llama 3-8B and 94.7% for o1.
- Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 344 | 143 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $15 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)
- o1: 46.1 (#70)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1152 | 1367 |
| HumanEval+ | 56.7% | 89% |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | 80.2% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 31.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 36.9% | — |
| CadEval | — | 56% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3-8B: —
- o1: 24.6 (#117)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)
- o1: 27.9 (#111)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 15% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1133 | 1371 |
| DTBench | 43.9% | 74.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 116.45 | 141.91 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Adversarial NLI | 57.3% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.6 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |
| WinoGrande | 75.7% | — |

## Math

- Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)
- o1: 36.1 (#175)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 73.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1151 | 1388 |
| MATH Level 5 | 6.1% | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)
- o1: 41.5 (#110)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 26.1% | 76.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1113 | 1361 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 82.8% | — |
| MMLU | 68.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 82.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 67.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 3-8B: —
- o1: 34.2 (#93)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)
- o1: 48.6 (#142)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1098 | 1358 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1076 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1159 | 1344 |
| LMArena German | 1104 | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | 967 | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | 1004 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1109 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1173 | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)
- o1: 74.8 (#86)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1127 | 1367 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |

## Long Context

- Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1128 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)
- o1: 55.6 (#144)

| Benchmark | Llama 3-8B | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1166 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1150 | 1348 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1152 | 1369 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3-8B better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 3-8B or o1 better for coding?

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

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3-8B and o1 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-8B has 34 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.