Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 3.2 90B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 62.7 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.4% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index58.327.1
Released2026-02-042024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked689

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
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 90B: 29.7 (#73)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
BALROG—27.3%
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 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
EnigmaEval7.6%0.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.36125.5
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond90.5%41%
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision13161000
GeoBench—52%
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
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 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.2 90B
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 90B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 3.2 90B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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