Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs Llama 3.2 3B
Llama 3.2 3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 3.2 3B leads 32.4 to 9.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 50.1% for Claude 3 Haiku and 28.3% for Llama 3.2 3B.
- Llama 3.2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 28.9 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.33 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.2 3B leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | 23.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1098 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | 28.3% |
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 21.9% |
| BALROG | — | 10.1% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1095 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.35 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |
Math Llama 3.2 3B leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1126 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Llama 3.2 3B leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1090 |
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Llama 3.2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | — |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1019 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1017 |
| LMArena German | 1174 | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 949 |
| LMArena French | 1195 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1109 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1166 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1173 | 1089 |
Long Context Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1190 | 1100 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1094 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | 595 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1105 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Llama 3.2 3B?
Llama 3.2 3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Haiku or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?
Llama 3.2 3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 27.6 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Llama 3.2 3B share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.