Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 3.2 90B
Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 4 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B.
- Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 27.5 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 27.3% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 125.5 |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 2.6% |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | 39.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 41% |
| MMLU | 75.9% | 80.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
Multimodal Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1000 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | — |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Llama 3.2 90B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 90B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Llama 3.2 90B?
Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 90B share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.