Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Llama 3.2 11B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#225); Llama 3.2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 11B Meta

31.6

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 11B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 32.1 to 27.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BALROG: 32.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 16.8% for Llama 3.2 11B.
  • Llama 3.2 11B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 11B specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index34.431.6
Released2024-06-202024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked603

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1343—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Llama 3.2 11B: 27.0

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
BALROG32.6%16.8%
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1306—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
MMLU87.3%56.5%
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1264—

Multimodal Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Llama 3.2 11B: 23.8

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
LMArena Vision1125966
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1271—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1305—
LMArena Spanish1289—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 11B
LMArena Text1298—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1326—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Llama 3.2 11B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has enough public results to be ranked (#225); Llama 3.2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 11B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 11B has 3.

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