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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct wins on 12/16 benchmarks

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct wins 12 of 16 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · arena · knowledge.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

4 / 16

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

12 / 16

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Attention vs performance

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

#216 by perf·#18 by attention

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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

#218 by perf·#18 by attention

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Best value

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

1.9x better value than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

90.7 pts/$

$0.40/M

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

171.9 pts/$

$0.21/M

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Head to head

16 benchmarks · 2 models

Llama 3.1 70B InstructLlama 3.3 70B Instruct

Aider · Code Editing

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +0.8

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

58.6

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

59.4

Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +24.5

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

1293.3

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

1317.8

Balrog

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads by +4.9

Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

27.9

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

23.0

Dtbench

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads by +0.9

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

33.3

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

32.5

GPQA diamond

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +4.3

Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

25.6

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

29.9

BBH (HuggingFace)

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +0.6

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

55.9

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

56.6

GPQA

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads by +3.7

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

14.2

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

10.5

IFEval

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +3.3

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

86.7

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

90.0

MATH Level 5

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +10.3

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

38.1

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

48.3

MMLU-PRO

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +0.3

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

47.9

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

48.1

MUSR

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads by +2.1

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

17.7

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

15.6

Lmca

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +3.1

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

17.5

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

20.6

MATH level 5

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +4.9

MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

36.7

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

41.6

MMLU

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +8.3

Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

73.5

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

81.7

OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +1.5

OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

3.5

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

5.0

WeirdML

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads by +5.5

WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

9.0

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

14.4

Full benchmark table

Benchmark	Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Aider · Code Editing	58.6	59.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall	1293.3	1317.8
Balrog Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.	27.9	23.0
Dtbench	33.3	32.5
GPQA diamond Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.	25.6	29.9
BBH (HuggingFace)	55.9	56.6
GPQA	14.2	10.5
IFEval	86.7	90.0
MATH Level 5	38.1	48.3
MMLU-PRO	47.9	48.1
MUSR	17.7	15.6
Lmca	17.5	20.6
MATH level 5 MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.	36.7	41.6
MMLU Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.	73.5	81.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.	3.5	5.0
WeirdML WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.	9.0	14.4

Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens

Model	Input	Output	Context	Projected $/mo
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	$0.40	$0.40	131K tokens (~66 books)	$4.00
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	$0.10	$0.32	131K tokens (~66 books)	$1.55

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