Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Llama 3.2 1B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 1B Meta

20.1

Rank #354 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3.2 1B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 54.4 to 21.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 0.6% for Llama 3.2 1B.
  • Llama 3.2 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 1B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index39.520.1
Released2025-02-242024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—60K
Max output—54K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.027
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked5822

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.1 (#338)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Coding13611070
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—8.2%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—11.3%
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Llama 3.2 1B: 14.6 (#150)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—10.8%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
BALROG—6.6%
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Llama 3.2 1B: 16.2 (#308)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331044
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16101.99
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Llama 3.2 1B: 10.4 (#313)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%0.6%
LMArena Math13371086
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#312)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
GPQA Diamond79.7%23.9%
LMArena Expert13211007
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Llama 3.2 1B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Llama 3.2 1B: 23.8 (#292)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Non-English1296973
LMArena Chinese1299959
LMArena German13011014
LMArena Russian1311941
LMArena French1303—
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Spanish1298—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Llama 3.2 1B: 52.4 (#290)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Instruction Following13521031
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#274)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Longer Query13731050
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.3 (#310)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Text13141055
LMArena Creative Writing13321033
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412200
LMArena Multi-Turn13391030
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Llama 3.2 1B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Llama 3.2 1B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 21.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 1B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 1B has 22.

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