Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Llama 2-70B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.8 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 91.2% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 3.3% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 2-70B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index39.524.4
Released2025-02-242023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked5835

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding13611079
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331073
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16113.79
ForecastBench61.851.4
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
DTBench—41.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
LiveBench76.1%—
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%0%
LMArena Math13371091
MATH Level 591.2%3.3%
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond79.7%26.3%
LMArena Expert13211039
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English12961045
LMArena Chinese1299995
LMArena French13031090
LMArena German13011041
LMArena Japanese1267927
LMArena Korean1249964
LMArena Russian13111083
LMArena Spanish12981143

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13521071
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query13731062
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text13141115
LMArena Creative Writing13321075
LMArena Multi-Turn13391088
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Llama 2-70B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 2-70B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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