Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads 35.5 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 48.2% for Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct.
- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-12-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.9 (#216)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 38.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1272 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 48.2% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 25.0 (#152)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1266 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 35.5 (#182)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1271 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 34.1 (#199)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1242 |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 40.5 (#217)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1245 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1263 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 65.9 (#213)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1252 |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#215)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1238 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct: 48.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1283 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1269 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1275 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct better for coding?
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70b Instruct has 14.