Meta LLaMA 3.1 vs OpenAI o3-mini — side-by-side specs.
Meta LLaMA 3.1 | OpenAI o3-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Meta | OpenAI |
| Release date | Jul 23 2024 | Jan 31 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | LLaMA 3.1 shipped 192 days before o3-mini | |
LLaMA 3.1 and o3-mini do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. LLaMA 3.1 shipped 192 days before o3-mini, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
LLaMA 3.1 is an open-source / open-weight model; o3-mini is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.