Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Llama 2-70B

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

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-70B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4o leads 28.8 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 53.3% for GPT-4o and 3.3% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Llama 2-70B specifications
GPT-4oLlama 2-70B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index28.624.4
Released2024-05-132023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7235

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-70B leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding12971079
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 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Llama 2-70B leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12811073
DTBench64.5%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97113.79
ForecastBench57.751.4
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
LiveBench55.3%—
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%0%
LMArena Math12851091
MATH Level 553.3%3.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond49.2%26.3%
LMArena Expert12501039
MMLU88.1%69.9%
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English12831045
LMArena Chinese1277995
LMArena French13041090
LMArena German12821041
LMArena Japanese1257927
LMArena Korean1234964
LMArena Russian12861083
LMArena Spanish12921143

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following12781071
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query12891062
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text13001115
LMArena Creative Writing12921075
LMArena Multi-Turn13021088
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

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

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

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

Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.4 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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