Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Llama 2-70B
Claude 2.1 and Llama 2-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (24.9 vs 24.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 2-70B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 2.1 leads 15.5 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 51% for Claude 2.1 and 41.6% for Llama 2-70B.
- Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Llama 2-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 24.1 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2023-07-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 2-70B leads
Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322), Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1079 |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216), Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 41.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.22 | 113.59 |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | 51.4 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1073 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 64.9% |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | — | 50% |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 78.9% |
| PIQA | — | 82.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.2% |
Math Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309), Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 0% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1091 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.3% |
| GSM8K | — | 69.6% |
Knowledge Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 26.3% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 69.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1039 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 88.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 60.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 87.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1045 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 994 |
| LMArena French | — | 1089 |
| LMArena German | — | 1041 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 927 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 964 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1142 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1071 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1062 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1115 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1075 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1088 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Llama 2-70B?
Claude 2.1 and Llama 2-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (24.9 vs 24.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 2.1 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?
Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.8 versus 25.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Llama 2-70B share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.