Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads 30.6 to 15.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 47.4% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 30.6 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.32 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | 14.4% |
| SciCode | — | 26% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1268 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 31.9% |
| BALROG | — | 23% |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 59.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 127.33 |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | 58.6 |
| SimpleBench | — | 19.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 50.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.5% |
| LiveBench | — | 50.2% |
Math Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 5.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1267 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 41.6% |
Knowledge Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 47.4% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 86.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1225 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1217 |
| LMArena French | — | 1281 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1143 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1270 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 82.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1242 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1256 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1274 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1250 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1280 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.0 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.