Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 3.2 11B

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#18); Llama 3.2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 11B Meta

31.6

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.2 11B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 51.0 to 27.0.
  • Llama 3.2 11B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 3.2 11B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index58.331.6
Released2026-02-042024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked683

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LMArena Coding1535—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Llama 3.2 11B: 27.0

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
BALROG—16.8%
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.36—
ForecastBench60—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—
MMLU—56.5%

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Llama 3.2 11B: 23.8

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Vision1316966
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Non-English1490—
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1504—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1465—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1512—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Text1504—
LMArena Creative Writing1506—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1514—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Llama 3.2 11B?

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#18); Llama 3.2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 3.2 11B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 11B has 3.

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