Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 4 Scout

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 5 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 20.5 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 62.3% for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index29.027.7
Released2024-02-292025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked3043

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Coding12231286
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%43.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9.1%
SciCode—17%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Hard Prompts11971266
DTBench53.6%57.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7129.64
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36.9%
ARC-AGI-1—0.5%
CritPt—0%
LMCA—12%
ForecastBench—57.5
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%7.8%
LMArena Math12131287
MATH Level 518.2%62.3%
Omni-MATH—37.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0%

Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond40.6%51.8%
LMArena Expert11731235
MMLU-Pro—74.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.7%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision9841118
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English12051252
LMArena Chinese11891255
LMArena French12291282
LMArena German12041272
LMArena Japanese11311206
LMArena Korean11281207
LMArena Russian12271263
LMArena Spanish12041278

Instruction Following Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Instruction Following11991248
IFEval—81.8%

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Longer Query12111265
Fiction.LiveBench—36%

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Text12181279
LMArena Creative Writing11861249
LMArena Multi-Turn12271280
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783
WildBench—78%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Llama 4 Scout?

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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