Model comparison

Llama 3-70B vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where o1 leads 36.1 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 22.6% for Llama 3-70B and 94.7% for o1.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 3-70B and o1 specifications
Llama 3-70Bo1
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index28.840.9
Released2024-04-182024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked3152

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
LMArena Coding12061367
HumanEval+72%89%
MBPP+69%80.2%
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct43.6%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
BigCodeBench Complete54.5%—
CadEval—56%

Agentic & Tool Use o1 leads

Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
Cybench5%10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
LMArena Hard Prompts11951371
DTBench54.2%74.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index122.93141.91
SimpleBench—41.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%—
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench—75.7%
WinoGrande83.5%—

Math o1 leads

Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%73.3%
LMArena Math12181388
MATH Level 522.6%94.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
LiveBench Math—80.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge o1 leads

Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
GPQA Diamond40.6%76.8%
LMArena Expert11491361
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%
MMLU79.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 3-70B: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
LMArena Non-English11421358
LMArena Chinese11141394
LMArena French12321344
LMArena German11691337
LMArena Japanese10171346
LMArena Korean10171396
LMArena Russian11591356
LMArena Spanish12411345

Instruction Following o1 leads

Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
LMArena Instruction Following11941367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
LMArena Longer Query11741378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bo1
LMArena Text12211366
LMArena Creative Writing12101348
LMArena Multi-Turn12231369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-70B better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-70B or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and o1 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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