Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 2-7B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

28.6

Rank #315 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 73.7 to 28.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 17% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 0% for Llama 2-7B.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 2-7B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index58.328.6
Released2026-02-042023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6829

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Llama 2-7B: 28.7 (#302)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Coding15351002
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Llama 2-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Llama 2-7B: 15.1 (#309)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
Chess Puzzles17%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15271009
Epoch Capabilities Index155.3698.54
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
ForecastBench60—
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#231)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Llama 2-7B: 27.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Expert15461036
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
MMLU—45.8%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Llama 2-7B: 23.9 (#288)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1490973
LMArena Chinese1551973
LMArena French1513969
LMArena German1504978
LMArena Russian1497995
LMArena Spanish15121007
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1465—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Llama 2-7B: 51.0 (#293)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following15231006

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1520999
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Llama 2-7B: 28.1 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Text15041053
LMArena Creative Writing15061033
LMArena Multi-Turn15141029
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Llama 2-7B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 2-7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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