Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Llama 2-70B
Llama 2-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#349); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 14.4.
- Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 24.4 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2023-07-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1079 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 41.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 113.79 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1073 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 64.9% |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | — | 50% |
| ForecastBench | — | 51.4 |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 78.9% |
| PIQA | — | 82.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.2% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 69.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1091 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 78.3% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 69.9% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | 87.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1039 |
| BoolQ | — | 88.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 60.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1045 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 995 |
| LMArena French | — | 1090 |
| LMArena German | — | 1041 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 927 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 964 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1143 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1071 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1062 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1115 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1075 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1088 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Llama 2-70B?
Llama 2-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#349); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Llama 2-70B share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.