Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Llama 13b

GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 13b in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 to 13.8.
  • Llama 13b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Llama 13b specifications
GPT-4oLlama 13b
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index28.624.4
Released2024-05-132023-02-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7221

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
LMArena Coding1297683
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Llama 13b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Llama 13b leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1281728
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97100.58
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
ForecastBench57.7—
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
LiveBench55.3%—
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math Llama 13b leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
LMArena Math1285838
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—
GSM8K—20.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
MMLU88.1%47.7%
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
LMArena Expert1250—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
ScienceQA88.5%43.3%
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
LMArena Non-English1283819
LMArena Chinese1277—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1278781
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1289—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 13b
LMArena Text1300834
LMArena Creative Writing1292794
LMArena Multi-Turn1302753
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Llama 13b?

GPT-4o is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.6 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o or Llama 13b better for coding?

GPT-4o scores higher on coding benchmarks: 24.8 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Llama 13b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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