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GPT-5.3 Codex vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

GPT-5.3 Codex wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Supports vision
  • Has reasoning mode

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Faster response time
  • Better at math
Price Advantage
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Benchmark Advantage
GPT-5.3 Codex
Context Window
GPT-5.3 Codex
Speed
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricGPT-5.3 CodexLlama 3.3 70B InstructWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$1.75$0.10 Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Output (per 1M tokens)$14.00$0.32 Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Cache Read (per 1M)$0.17$0.13 Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is 97% cheaper overall.

GPT-5.3 Codex Providers

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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Providers

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Benchmark Comparison

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Benchmarks Compared
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GPT-5.3 Codex Wins
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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkGPT-5.3 CodexLlama 3.3 70B InstructWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
54.014.5
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
53.110.7
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
-7.7-
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
-71.3-
GPQA
Graduate-level science
91.549.8
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
-28.8-
Aider
Real-world code editing
-59.4-
AIME
Competition math
-30.0-
GPT-5.3 Codex significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

GPT-5.3 Codex
400,000
tokens
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
131,072
tokens
GPT-5.3 Codex has a 67% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricGPT-5.3 CodexLlama 3.3 70B InstructWinner
Tokens/second68.4 tok/s99.5 tok/s
Time to First Token87.36s0.54s
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct responds 46% faster on average.

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureGPT-5.3 CodexLlama 3.3 70B Instruct
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyGPT-5.3 CodexLlama 3.3 70B Instruct
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorOpenAIMeta-llama
ReleasedFeb 2026Dec 2024

GPT-5.3 Codex Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has cheaper input pricing at $0.10/M tokens. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has cheaper output pricing at $0.32/M tokens.
GPT-5.3 Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 53.1, compared to Llama 3.3 70B Instruct's score of 10.7.
GPT-5.3 Codex has a 400,000 token context window, while Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has a 131,072 token context window.
GPT-5.3 Codex supports vision. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct does not support vision.