Model comparison

Grok 4.5 vs Llama 2-7B

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #22 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

28.6

Rank #315 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.5 leads 56.0 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 36% for Grok 4.5 and 0% for Llama 2-7B.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.5 and Llama 2-7B specifications
Grok 4.5Llama 2-7B
ProviderxAIMeta
Noometry Index55.028.6
Released2026-07-082023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K—
Max output500K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked5229

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 51.7 (#34), Llama 2-7B: 28.7 (#302)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Coding14731002
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.4%—
LMArena WebDev1552—
SciCode54.1%—
WeirdML46.4%—
ALE-Bench1,309—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#15), Llama 2-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
APEX-Agents56.2%—
τ²-bench Banking47.9%—
PostTrainBench23.4%—
GBAEval65.4%—
GDP.pdf14%—
LMArena Search1213—
Vending-Bench 23,887—

Reasoning Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 56.0 (#23), Llama 2-7B: 15.1 (#309)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
Chess Puzzles36%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14621009
Epoch Capabilities Index154.0298.54
ARC-AGI-252.6%—
SimpleBench70%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)79.9%—
ARC-AGI-187.2%—
CritPt15.4%—
DTBench96.5%—
LMCA45.2%—
Surface Evolver Bench74.4%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 60.7 (#29), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Math14571042
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench31%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#21), Llama 2-7B: 27.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Expert14661036
GPQA Diamond93.4%—
SimpleQA Verified48.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
MMLU—45.8%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.5: 37.8 (#63), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Vision1287—
Blueprint-Bench 227.3%—
Furniture Assembly22.5%—
LMArena Document1452—
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 54.5 (#43), Llama 2-7B: 23.9 (#288)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1439973
LMArena Chinese1497973
LMArena French1458969
LMArena German1448978
LMArena Russian1447995
LMArena Spanish14521007
LMArena Japanese1425—
LMArena Korean1402—

Instruction Following Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 76.3 (#45), Llama 2-7B: 51.0 (#293)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following14461006

Long Context Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#54), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1463999

Writing & Preference Grok 4.5 leads

Grok 4.5: 65.9 (#40), Llama 2-7B: 28.1 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4.5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Text14481053
LMArena Creative Writing14421033
LMArena Multi-Turn14571029
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1579—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.5 better than Llama 2-7B?

Grok 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 55.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4.5 or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Grok 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.7 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.5 and Llama 2-7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.5 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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