Llama 3 70B vs GPT-4.1 mini

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.

Llama 3 70B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 51 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Llama 3 70B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 58.8 against 23.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is AIME 2024, 60 to 23.1. GPT-4.1 mini does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-4.1 mini gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Llama 3 70B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 3 70B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4.1 mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Knowledge

GPT-4.1 mini

Llama 3 70B

47.2

GPT-4.1 mini

75.9

58
MMLU
87.5
58
GPQA
64.2
56
SuperGPQA
-
54
OpenBookQA
-
55
MMLU-Pro
-
2
HLE
-

Coding

Llama 3 70B

Llama 3 70B

26

GPT-4.1 mini

23.6

50
HumanEval
-
9
SWE-bench Verified
23.6
19
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Llama 3 70B

Llama 3 70B

58.8

GPT-4.1 mini

23.1

58
AIME 2023
-
60
AIME 2024
23.1
59
AIME 2025
-
54
HMMT Feb 2023
-
56
HMMT Feb 2024
-
55
HMMT Feb 2025
-
57
BRUMO 2025
-
71
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Llama 3 70B
56
SimpleQA
-
54
MuSR
-
74
BBH
-

Instruction Following

GPT-4.1 mini

Llama 3 70B

77

GPT-4.1 mini

88.5

77
IFEval
88.5

Multilingual

Llama 3 70B
72
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Llama 3 70B or GPT-4.1 mini?

Llama 3 70B is ahead overall, 51 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 60 and 23.1.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 3 70B or GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.9 versus 47.2. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Llama 3 70B or GPT-4.1 mini?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 26 versus 23.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Llama 3 70B or GPT-4.1 mini?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 58.8 versus 23.1. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Llama 3 70B or GPT-4.1 mini?

GPT-4.1 mini has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88.5 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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