Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Llama 3.2 3B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 3B Meta

28.9

Rank #321 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 54.4 to 24.7.
  • Llama 3.2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 3B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index39.528.9
Released2025-02-242024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.33
Results tracked5818

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Coding13611098
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—23.4%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—28.3%
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—21.9%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
BALROG—10.1%
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331095
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 Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Math13371126
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
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 3B: 29.7 (#235)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Expert13211090
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
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 3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Non-English12961019
LMArena Chinese12991017
LMArena German13011056
LMArena Russian1311949
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 3B: 56.0 (#275)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following13521089
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Longer Query13731100
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetLlama 3.2 3B
LMArena Text13141110
LMArena Creative Writing13321094
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412595
LMArena Multi-Turn13391105
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 3B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.

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