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Llama vs ChatGPT
Llama (Meta) vs ChatGPT (OpenAI) — scored across 9 dimensions by our editorial team. Last reviewed 2026-05-14 and 2026-05-20.
Llama
Meta
Meta's open-weights model family, the foundation of much of the OSS AI world.
Pick Llama over ChatGPT if you need: Self-hosted deployments or Fine-tuning.
ChatGPT
OpenAI
The most widely used AI chatbot, powered by GPT-4o and GPT-5.
Pick ChatGPT over Llama if you need: Writing or Coding.
Full comparison table
Dimension
Llama
Meta
ChatGPT
OpenAI
Basics
Company
Meta
OpenAI
Released
2023-02-24
2022-11-30
Latest Version
Llama 4
GPT-5
Capabilities
Text Generation
9.0
10.0
Code Generation
8.0
9.0
Image Understanding
8.0
9.0
Web Browsing
6.0
9.0
Multimodal
8.0
10.0
Long Context
9.0
8.0
Reasoning
8.0
9.0
Fit
Best Use Cases
Self-hosted deploymentsFine-tuningResearch
WritingCodingResearchBrainstorming
Best For
ML engineersPrivacy-sensitive enterprisesResearchers
General usersWritersStudentsMarketers
Pricing
Free Tier
Free open weights (with license)
GPT-5 mini access, limited messages
Paid Plan
Free
Plus: $20/month
API Pricing
Free weights; pay your own infra
From $1.25/M input tokens (gpt-5)
Enterprise
Free under Llama Community License
Team $25/user, Enterprise custom
Benchmarks
MMLU Score
87
91
HumanEval (Coding)
88
92
GSM8K (Math)
92
95
Context Window
1.0M tokens
256K tokens
Languages
English
high
high
Chinese
medium
high
Multilingual
high
high
Editorial
Overall Score
8.7
9.5
Value for Money
9.5
9.0
Accuracy
8.5
9.0
Ease of Use
6.0
10.0
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