Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Nemotron 4 340b Instruct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.4 vs 35.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Nemotron 4 340b Instruct NVIDIA

35.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads 31.7 to 18.0.
  • Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index34.435.3
Released2024-06-202024-06-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6017

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 34.6 (#223)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Coding13431209
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: 32.1 (#61), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 22.4 (#180)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13051202
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.7 (#193)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Math13061216
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 Nemotron 4 340b Instruct leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 31.4 (#212)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Expert12641171
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 38.0 (#228)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12831206
LMArena Chinese12711214
LMArena French13041196
LMArena German12971192
LMArena Japanese12341128
LMArena Korean12001148
LMArena Russian13051219
LMArena Spanish12891195

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 63.3 (#227)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12971203
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 37.1 (#216)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13111225

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Nemotron 4 340b Instruct: 42.9 (#229)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetNemotron 4 340b Instruct
LMArena Text12981225
LMArena Creative Writing12921203
LMArena Multi-Turn13261214
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Nemotron 4 340b Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.4 vs 35.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Nemotron 4 340b Instruct better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 4 340b Instruct has 17.

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