Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Llama 3.2 1B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 1B Meta

20.1

Rank #354 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.2 1B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 52.9 to 21.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 58.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 11.3% for Llama 3.2 1B.
  • Llama 3.2 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 1B specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index34.620.1
Released2024-06-202024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—60K
Max output—54K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.027
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked6022

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.1 (#338)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%8.2%
LMArena Coding13421070
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%11.3%
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Llama 3.2 1B: 14.6 (#150)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
BALROG32.6%6.6%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—10.8%
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Llama 3.2 1B: 16.2 (#308)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Hard Prompts13051044
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55101.99
SimpleBench41.4%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Llama 3.2 1B: 10.4 (#313)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%0.6%
LMArena Math13071086
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#312)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
GPQA Diamond55.3%23.9%
LMArena Expert12651007
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Llama 3.2 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Llama 3.2 1B: 23.8 (#292)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Non-English1283973
LMArena Chinese1272959
LMArena German12971014
LMArena Russian1306941
LMArena French1305—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Llama 3.2 1B: 52.4 (#290)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Instruction Following12971031
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#274)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Longer Query13111050

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.3 (#310)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Text12981055
LMArena Creative Writing12921033
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451200
LMArena Multi-Turn13261030
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Llama 3.2 1B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Llama 3.2 1B better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 21.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 1B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 1B has 22.

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