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Claude 3 Opus vs Llama 3-70B

Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 28.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3-70B in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Claude 3 Opus leads 41.4 to 33.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 22.6% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index29.528.8
Released2024-02-292024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4631

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%43.6%
LMArena Coding12641206
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%54.5%
HumanEval+77.4%72%
MBPP+73.3%69%
WeirdML19.2%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
Cybench10%5%
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts12451195
DTBench61.6%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91122.93
ForecastBench58.457.1
WinoGrande88.5%83.5%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
LiveBench49.2%—

Math Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%4.3%
LMArena Math12731218
MATH Level 537.5%22.6%
LiveBench Math43.6%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond47.2%40.6%
LMArena Expert12231149
MMLU84.6%79.3%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Llama 3-70B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English12581142
LMArena Chinese12481114
LMArena French12751232
LMArena German12581169
LMArena Japanese12041017
LMArena Korean11871017
LMArena Russian12801159
LMArena Spanish12461241

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following12481194
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query12591174

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text12621221
LMArena Creative Writing12351210
LMArena Multi-Turn12751223
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Llama 3-70B?

Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3-70B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 28.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3-70B share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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