Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Llama 2-7B

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 2-7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.4 to 28.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 7% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 0% for Llama 2-7B.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Llama 2-7B specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index41.029.1
Released2025-08-052023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4829

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
LMArena Coding14791002
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Llama 2-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
Chess Puzzles7%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431009
Epoch Capabilities Index144.1299.06
SimpleBench60%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
ForecastBench62—
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Llama 2-7B leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
LMArena Math14311042
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
LMArena Expert14391036
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
MMLU—45.8%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
VPCT35%—
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1405973
LMArena Chinese1427973
LMArena French1431970
LMArena German1413978
LMArena Russian1422995
LMArena Spanish14481007
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following14351006

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1455999

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 2-7B
LMArena Text14191053
LMArena Creative Writing14121033
LMArena Multi-Turn14441029
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Llama 2-7B?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Llama 2-7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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