Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Llama 3.2 3B
Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 24.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.4% for Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 28.9 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.33 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 23.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1098 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | 28.3% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 21.9% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| BALROG | — | 10.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1095 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Llama 3.2 3B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1126 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Llama 3.2 3B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1090 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Llama 3.2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1019 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1017 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 949 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1089 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1100 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1094 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1105 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 595 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Llama 3.2 3B?
Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?
Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3.2 3B share?
15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.