Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Llama 4 Scout

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.4

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude 3 Opus leads 32.4 to 19.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 62.3% for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Llama 4 Scout specifications
Claude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index29.327.4
Released2024-02-292025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked4643

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Llama 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Coding12641286
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%43.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9.1%
SciCode—17%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Hard Prompts12461266
DTBench61.6%57.9%
LMCA17%12%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91129.64
ForecastBench58.457.5
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36.9%
ARC-AGI-1—0.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%7.8%
LMArena Math12731286
MATH Level 537.5%62.3%
Omni-MATH—37.3%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0%

Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond47.2%51.8%
LMArena Expert12231236
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU-Pro—74.2%
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.7%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision10231118
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English12581253
LMArena Chinese12481256
LMArena French12741283
LMArena German12581274
LMArena Japanese12041209
LMArena Korean11871207
LMArena Russian12801263
LMArena Spanish12461277

Instruction Following Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Instruction Following12481248
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
IFEval—81.8%

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Longer Query12591265
Fiction.LiveBench—36%

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Text12621279
LMArena Creative Writing12351249
LMArena Multi-Turn12751281
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783
WildBench—78%
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Llama 4 Scout?

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.4 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Llama 4 Scout share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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