Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 3-70B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.5

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 62.7 to 12.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.4% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.3% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 3-70B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index58.328.5
Released2026-02-042024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6831

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Coding15351206
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
Cybench93%5%
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
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 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts15271195
DTBench91.2%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.36122.91
ForecastBench6057.1
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
LMCA55.8%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond90.5%40.6%
LMArena Expert15461149
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English14901142
LMArena Chinese15511114
LMArena French15131231
LMArena German15041169
LMArena Japanese14841017
LMArena Korean14651017
LMArena Russian14971159
LMArena Spanish15121241

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following15231194

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query15201174
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3-70B
LMArena Text15041221
LMArena Creative Writing15061210
LMArena Multi-Turn15141223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Llama 3-70B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 35.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 3-70B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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