Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 3.2 1B

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 1B Meta

20.1

Rank #354 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3.2 1B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 42.1 to 21.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 11.3% for Llama 3.2 1B.
  • Llama 3.2 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index29.020.1
Released2024-02-292024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—60K
Max output—54K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.027
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked3022

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.1 (#338)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%8.2%
LMArena Coding12231070
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%11.3%
WeirdML10.2%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Llama 3.2 1B: 14.6 (#150)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—10.8%
BALROG—6.6%

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Llama 3.2 1B: 16.2 (#308)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971044
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7101.99
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench53.6%—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Llama 3.2 1B: 10.4 (#313)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%0.6%
LMArena Math12131086
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#312)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
GPQA Diamond40.6%23.9%
LMArena Expert11731007
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Llama 3.2 1B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Llama 3.2 1B: 23.8 (#292)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Non-English1205973
LMArena Chinese1189959
LMArena German12041014
LMArena Russian1227941
LMArena French1229—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Llama 3.2 1B: 52.4 (#290)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Instruction Following11991031

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#274)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Longer Query12111050

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Llama 3.2 1B: 21.3 (#310)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.2 1B
LMArena Text12181055
LMArena Creative Writing11861033
LMArena Multi-Turn12271030
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—200

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Llama 3.2 1B?

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Llama 3.2 1B better for coding?

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 21.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 1B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 1B has 22.

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