Llama 3 70B vs o1-pro

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

Llama 3 70B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 51 to 33. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-pro is the reasoning model in the pair, while Llama 3 70B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. o1-pro gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Llama 3 70B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 3 70B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1-pro only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Knowledge

o1-pro

Llama 3 70B

47.2

o1-pro

79

58
MMLU
-
58
GPQA
79
56
SuperGPQA
-
54
OpenBookQA
-
55
MMLU-Pro
-
2
HLE
-

Coding

Llama 3 70B
50
HumanEval
-
9
SWE-bench Verified
-
19
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

o1-pro

Llama 3 70B

58.8

o1-pro

86

58
AIME 2023
-
60
AIME 2024
86
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

Llama 3 70B
77
IFEval
-

Multilingual

Llama 3 70B
72
MGSM
-

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Llama 3 70B or o1-pro?

Llama 3 70B is ahead overall, 51 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is AIME 2024, where the scores are 60 and 86.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 3 70B or o1-pro?

o1-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 47.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Llama 3 70B or o1-pro?

o1-pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 58.8. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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