Llama 3.1 405BvsGPT-4o
Meta
Llama 3.1 405B
Meta's open-source frontier model
Arena ELO
1247
Context
128K
Speed
45 t/s
Input/1M
$0.9
OpenAI
🏆 Overall WinnerGPT-4o
OpenAI's flagship multimodal model
Arena ELO
1314
Context
128K
Speed
110 t/s
Input/1M
$2.5
Capability Radar
Category performance across 6 domains
Benchmark Scores
MMLU · HumanEval · MATH · GSM8K · GPQA · BBH
Llama 3.1 405B
Pros
✓Fully open-source and free to deploy
✓No data leaves your infrastructure
✓Competitive benchmarks
Cons
✗Requires significant compute to self-host
✗No official vendor support
GPT-4o
Pros
✓Best-in-class multimodal capabilities
✓Fastest major frontier model
✓Extensive third-party integrations
Cons
✗Higher cost than alternatives
✗Context window smaller than Gemini 1.5 Pro
🏆 Our Verdict
Based on overall benchmark averages, GPT-4o has the edge with an average score of 81.6% across all benchmarks. However, the best choice depends on your use case — Llama 3.1 405B excels in fully open-source and free to deploy, while GPT-4o stands out for best-in-class multimodal capabilities.