LLaMA 3.3 vs GPT-5
Meta LLaMA 3.3 | OpenAI GPT-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Meta | OpenAI |
| Release date | Dec 6 2024 | Aug 7 2025 |
| Access | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | 70B | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 21% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | LLaMA 3.3 shipped 244 days before GPT-5 | |
Which is better: LLaMA 3.3 or GPT-5?
LLaMA 3.3 and GPT-5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. LLaMA 3.3 shipped 244 days before GPT-5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
LLaMA 3.3 is open weight, while GPT-5 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — LLaMA 3.3 and GPT-5 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
LLaMA 3.3 was released by Meta on Dec 6 2024.
GPT-5 was released by OpenAI on Aug 7 2025.
LLaMA 3.3 is an open weight model released by Meta. GPT-5 is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.