Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat NVIDIA

31.8

Rank #268 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 52.9 to 31.6.
  • Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index34.631.8
Released2024-06-20—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked609

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 29.9 (#300)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Coding13421025
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 20.0 (#246)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Hard Prompts13051047
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 31.3 (#226)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Math13071072
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 28.8 (#270)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Non-English12831063
LMArena Chinese1272—
LMArena French1305—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1306—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 54.2 (#279)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Instruction Following12971060
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 30.4 (#288)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Longer Query1311998

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat: 31.6 (#283)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetLlama2 70b Steerlm Chat
LMArena Text12981098
LMArena Creative Writing12921091
LMArena Multi-Turn13261058
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Llama2 70b Steerlm Chat has 9.

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