Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Llama 3-70B
Llama 3-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#323); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 54.2% for Llama 3-70B.
- Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 28.8 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 72% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1206 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.5% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 5% |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 54.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 122.93 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 35.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1195 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| WinoGrande | — | 83.5% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1218 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 22.6% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 79.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1149 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1114 |
| LMArena French | — | 1232 |
| LMArena German | — | 1169 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1159 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1241 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1194 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1174 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1221 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1210 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1223 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Llama 3-70B?
Llama 3-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#323); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Llama 3-70B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.