Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Wizardlm 70b

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Wizardlm 70b Microsoft

33.0

Rank #249 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Wizardlm 70b 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 34.8.
  • Wizardlm 70b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Wizardlm 70b specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index34.633.0
Released2024-06-20—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked6012

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
LMArena Coding13421081
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), Wizardlm 70b: —

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

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
LMArena Hard Prompts13051079
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Wizardlm 70b leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
LMArena Math13071116
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), Wizardlm 70b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
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), Wizardlm 70b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
LMArena Non-English12831078
LMArena Chinese12721052
LMArena German12971083
LMArena Russian13061155
LMArena French1305—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
LMArena Instruction Following12971093
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
LMArena Longer Query13111097

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetWizardlm 70b
LMArena Text12981120
LMArena Creative Writing12921149
LMArena Multi-Turn13261108
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Wizardlm 70b?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Wizardlm 70b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.

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