Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4.6 vs Llama 3-70B

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4.6 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4.6 leads 67.0 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 99.2% for Grok 4.6 and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.6Llama 3-70B
ProviderxAIMeta
Noometry Index56.928.8
Released2026-08-122024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K—
Max output500K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked4931

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14651206
DeepSWE67.5%—
FrontierCode48%—
CursorBench41.4%—
LMArena WebDev1617—
FrontierSWE25.3%—
SciCode56.5%—
WeirdML67.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench1,508—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
APEX-Agents65.3%—
Cybench—5%
GDP.pdf17.2%—
Vending-Bench 29,047—

Reasoning Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14471195
DTBench97.3%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.44122.93
ARC-AGI-267.1%—
SimpleBench75.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
NYT Connections (extended)80%—
ARC-AGI-187.5%—
CritPt19.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
EBR-Bench30.5%—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
LMCA48.5%—
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.2%4.3%
LMArena Math14231218
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
ProofBench51%—
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond94%40.6%
LMArena Expert14671149
SimpleQA Verified49.3%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23), Llama 3-70B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1263—
Blueprint-Bench 233.2%—
Furniture Assembly40%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14201142
LMArena Chinese14801114
LMArena French14611232
LMArena German14311169
LMArena Japanese13761017
LMArena Korean13971017
LMArena Russian14221159
LMArena Spanish14041241

Instruction Following Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14311194

Long Context Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14541174

Writing & Preference Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Text14281221
LMArena Creative Writing14281210
LMArena Multi-Turn14251223

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than Llama 3-70B?

Grok 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4.6 or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Grok 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.5 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.6 and Llama 3-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4.6 has 49 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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