Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Llama 3.2 90B

Claude 3.5 Haiku is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.2 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Llama 3.2 90B leads 21.7 to 17.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GeoBench: 34% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 52% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
Claude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index29.227.5
Released2024-10-222024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked499

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
Aider Polyglot28%—
SciCode27.4%—
WeirdML30.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1286—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
BALROG19.3%27.3%

Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15125.5
CritPt0%—
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1251—
DTBench56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%2.6%
MATH Level 546.4%39.4%
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
LMArena Math1244—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Llama 3.2 90B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond38.1%41%
MMLU74.3%80.3%
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
LMArena Expert1208—

Multimodal Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision10921000
GeoBench34%52%

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1238—
LMArena Chinese1229—
LMArena French1264—
LMArena German1237—
LMArena Japanese1175—
LMArena Korean1173—
LMArena Russian1253—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1241—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1261—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuLlama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1255—
LMArena Creative Writing1233—
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1146—
WildBench76%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1265—
LiveBench Language35.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Claude 3.5 Haiku is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.2 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Llama 3.2 90B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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