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LLaMA-13B vs Llama 3 70B Instruct

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Winner summary

Llama 3 70B Instruct wins 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

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arena·Llama 3 70B Instructknowledge·LLaMA-13B
Hype vs Reality
LLaMA-13B
#170 by perf·no signal
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Llama 3 70B Instruct
#181 by perf·no signal
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Best value
LLaMA-13B
no price
Llama 3 70B Instruct
51.8 pts/$
$0.63/M
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Meta AI
$1.50T·Tier 1
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$1.50T·Tier 1
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Head to head
LLaMA-13BLlama 3 70B Instruct
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Llama 3 70B Instruct leads by +304.3
LLaMA-13B
970.9
Llama 3 70B Instruct
1275.1
CMMLU
LLaMA-13B leads by +2.9
LLaMA-13B
39.8
Llama 3 70B Instruct
36.9
MMLU
Llama 3 70B Instruct leads by +42.1
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
LLaMA-13B
30.3
Llama 3 70B Instruct
72.4
OpenBookQA
LLaMA-13B leads by +11.7
OpenBookQA · science questions that require combining a given core fact with broad common knowledge, mimicking an open-book exam setting.
LLaMA-13B
41.9
Llama 3 70B Instruct
30.1
Winogrande
Llama 3 70B Instruct leads by +21.0
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
LLaMA-13B
46.0
Llama 3 70B Instruct
67.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkLLaMA-13BLlama 3 70B Instruct
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
970.91275.1
CMMLU
39.836.9
MMLU
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
30.372.4
OpenBookQA
OpenBookQA · science questions that require combining a given core fact with broad common knowledge, mimicking an open-book exam setting.
41.930.1
Winogrande
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
46.067.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Meta logoLLaMA-13B
Meta logoLlama 3 70B Instruct$0.51$0.748K tokens (~4 books)$5.67