Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 34.1 to 15.7.
  • Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index39.536.7
Released2025-02-24—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked5811

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 38.4 (#177)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Coding13611312
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 15.7 (#149)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—10%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 26.3 (#134)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Hard Prompts13331316
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 37.5 (#152)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Math13371360
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 43.1 (#187)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Non-English12961282
LMArena Russian13111284
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Spanish1298—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 69.0 (#178)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Instruction Following13521308
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 39.5 (#177)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Longer Query13731299
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 52.2 (#175)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Text13141320
LMArena Creative Writing13321314
LMArena Multi-Turn13391317
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 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has 11.

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