Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs Llama 3.1-405B

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.7

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 leads 73.5 to 18.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 97.8% for GPT-5.4 and 9.7% for Llama 3.1-405B.
  • Llama 3.1-405B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and Llama 3.1-405B specifications
GPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index59.430.7
Released2026-03-052024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked6842

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
WeirdML77.7%21.4%
LMArena Coding14971291
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
LMArena WebDev1465—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
MirrorCode15.6%—
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
TheAgentCompany—7.4%
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
Cybench—7.5%
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
PostTrainBench19%—
GBAEval45.1%—
LMArena Search1197—
METR Time Horizons74.3%—
Vending-Bench 26,144—

Reasoning GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%45%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851269
DTBench94.4%61.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81128.75
ForecastBench59.559.9
ARC-AGI-274%—
SimpleBench—23%
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-193.7%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles44%—
EnigmaEval16%—
Thematic Generalization80%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
LMCA52%—
BIG-Bench Hard—82.9%
HellaSwag—89.2%
PIQA—85.9%
WinoGrande—89.2%

Math GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290)

Knowledge GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
GPQA Diamond93.3%50.9%
LMArena Expert15071243
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—
MMLU-Pro—72.3%
Confabulations—17.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
GPQA (HELM)—52.2%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
MMLU—84.5%
TriviaQA—82.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), Llama 3.1-405B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Vision1303—
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Non-English14651248
LMArena Chinese15191242
LMArena French14931279
LMArena German14721252
LMArena Japanese14851208
LMArena Korean14481184
LMArena Russian14801265
LMArena Spanish14541260

Instruction Following GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Instruction Following14691259
IFEval—81.1%

Long Context GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Longer Query14731266
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Llama 3.1-405B
LMArena Text14691284
LMArena Creative Writing14391262
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840870
LMArena Multi-Turn14821297
WildBench—78.3%
EQ-Bench 41272—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than Llama 3.1-405B?

GPT-5.4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.4 to 30.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.4 or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 33.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and Llama 3.1-405B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.

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