Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Llama 2-7B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 54.4 to 28.0.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 2-7B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index39.529.1
Released2025-02-242023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked5829

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Coding13611002
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 2-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
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 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331009
Epoch Capabilities Index141.1699.06
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
ForecastBench61.8—
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
LiveBench76.1%—
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Math13371042
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Expert13211036
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
MMLU—45.8%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
ScienceQA—43.1%
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1296973
LMArena Chinese1299973
LMArena French1303970
LMArena German1301978
LMArena Russian1311995
LMArena Spanish12981007
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following13521006
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1373999
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 2-7B
LMArena Text13141053
LMArena Creative Writing13321033
LMArena Multi-Turn13391029
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 2-7B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 2-7B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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