Model comparison

GPT-4o mini vs Llama 2-70B

GPT-4o mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 25.4 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.1

Rank #343 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o mini scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-70B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4o mini leads 42.2 to 27.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 52.6% for GPT-4o mini and 3.3% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o mini and Llama 2-70B specifications
GPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index25.424.1
Released2024-07-182023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked6035

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-70B leads

GPT-4o mini: 21.6 (#330), Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding12901079
Aider Polyglot3.6%—
WeirdML11.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding43.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+83.5%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o mini: 27.2 (#95), Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
BALROG17.4%—

Reasoning Llama 2-70B leads

GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#343), Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12671073
DTBench54.4%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.56113.59
PIQA88.7%82.8%
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench10.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning32.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
LiveBench Data Analysis50%—
LMCA10.4%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
LiveBench41.3%—
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 9.9 (#307), Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.9%0%
LMArena Math12671091
MATH Level 552.6%3.3%
GSM8K91.3%69.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
Omni-MATH28%—
LiveBench Math36.3%—

Knowledge GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#279), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond37.7%26.3%
LMArena Expert12351039
BoolQ88.7%88.6%
MMLU81.8%69.9%
SimpleQA Verified8.3%—
MMLU-Pro60.3%—
Confabulations37.2%—
GPQA (HELM)36.8%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o mini: 25.3 (#117), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1066—
Video-MME64.8%—
GeoBench64%—
VPCT34%—

Multilingual GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 42.2 (#194), Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English12661045
LMArena Chinese1264994
LMArena French12961089
LMArena German12721041
LMArena Japanese1216927
LMArena Korean1195964
LMArena Russian12751083
LMArena Spanish12761142

Instruction Following GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 62.1 (#234), Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following12591071
LiveBench Instruction Following56.8%—
IFEval78.2%—

Long Context GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#181), Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query12891062

Writing & Preference GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 39.7 (#243), Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text12861115
LMArena Creative Writing12681075
LMArena Multi-Turn12851088
Short-Story Creative Writing67.2%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing873—
WildBench79.1%—
LiveBench Language28.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o mini better than Llama 2-70B?

GPT-4o mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 25.4 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o mini or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.8 versus 21.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o mini and Llama 2-70B share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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