Model comparison

GPT-5.1 vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 22× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.1 leads 52.2 to 15.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 88.6% for GPT-5.1 and 5.1% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.1.
  • GPT-5.1 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1 and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
GPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index49.030.6
Released2025-11-132024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K128K
Max output128K4K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.32
Results tracked6343

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SciCode43.3%26%
WeirdML60.8%14.4%
LiveBench Coding72.5%36.6%
LMArena Coding14541268
SWE-bench Verified68%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1395—
GSO13.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
ALE-Bench1,192—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Terminal-Bench47.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
BALROG—23%
LMArena Search1199—
Vending-Bench 21,473—

Reasoning GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SimpleBench53.2%19.9%
CritPt4.9%0%
LiveBench Reasoning95.8%50.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14571257
DTBench90.1%59.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis72.1%49.5%
LMCA43.9%17.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index149.64127.33
ForecastBench58.158.6
LiveBench78.8%50.2%
ARC-AGI-217.6%—
ARC-AGI-172.8%—
Chess Puzzles32%—
EnigmaEval11.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—

Math GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.6%5.1%
LiveBench Math94.5%42.2%
LMArena Math14471267
Omni-MATH46.4%—
MATH Level 5—41.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)31%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
GPQA Diamond87.6%47.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%4.1%
LMArena Expert14701225
Humanity's Last Exam23.7%—
SimpleQA Verified48%—
MMLU-Pro57.9%—
Confabulations—22.8%
GPQA (HELM)44.2%—
MMLU—86.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Vision1250—
VPCT58.7%—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English14311236
LMArena Chinese14951217
LMArena French14501281
LMArena German14381251
LMArena Japanese14531150
LMArena Korean14011143
LMArena Russian14351252
LMArena Spanish14331270

Instruction Following GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following93.3%82.7%
LMArena Instruction Following14431242
IFEval93.5%—

Long Context GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14471256
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%
CL-bench23.7%—
CL-bench Life17.3%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text14431274
LMArena Creative Writing14271250
LMArena Multi-Turn14501280
LiveBench Language80.2%39.2%
WildBench86.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1 better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 22× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.1 or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; GPT-5.1 lists at $1.25 and $10.

Is GPT-5.1 or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.1 does, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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