GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini vs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini leads Llama 3.2 3B Instruct on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 20.4 to 5.7, and Llama 3.2 3B Instruct costs 6.0x less per output token ($0.3325 vs $2.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 10 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini or Llama 3.2 3B Instruct: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini for a larger context window (400K against 131K tokens).
- Shared results
- 10
- GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini only
- 12
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct only
- 25
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini leads, 20.4 against 5.7.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini has a Design Arena: websites result, 1111.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini takes 400K tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini $0.0013, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini not benchmarked, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 88.4 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- AA Math Index: GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini 91.7 against Llama 3.2 3B Instruct 3.3, 88.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini $2.00 against Llama 3.2 3B Instruct $0.3325 per million output tokens, 6.0x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini takes 400K tokens, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct 131K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Bars | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 0 | ||
| General | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 10 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1244 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.6% | 8.3% | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 33.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 61.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1098 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1103 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1253 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 20.4 | 5.7 | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 62.9% | 21.1% | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| BALROG | Not measured | 10.1% | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | Not measured | 21.9% | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 81.3% | 25.5% | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 18.5% | 5.3% | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1095 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1090 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1141 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 91.7 | 3.3 | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 91.7% | 3.3% | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1126 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1128 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 82.0% | 34.7% | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1106 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1104 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1115 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1074 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1111 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1081 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1092 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1097 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 988 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1094 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 978 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1105 | Not measured | Only GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 67.9% | 26.2% | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 66.7% | 4.3% | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1110 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1089 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1094 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1180 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1019 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1017 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1056 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 949 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1105 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1100 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1096 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1083 | Only Llama 3.2 3B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini | Meta Llama 3.2 3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Meta Llama |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | November 13, 2025 | September 25, 2024 |
| Context window | 400K | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.25 | $0.0505 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.3325 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini better than Llama 3.2 3B Instruct for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini for a larger context window (400K against 131K tokens).
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini or Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens; Llama 3.2 3B Instruct costs $0.0505 and $0.3325. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini or Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini, with 400K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini vs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct comparison based on?
10 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Llama 3.2 3B Instruct's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.