Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Llama 2-70B

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.3% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 0% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Llama 2-70B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index60.724.4
Released2026-05-282023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6535

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14901079
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14821073
DTBench94.9%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21113.79
ForecastBench59.951.4
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond91%26.3%
LMArena Expert15021039
SimpleQA Verified53%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English14501045
LMArena Chinese1507995
LMArena French14811090
LMArena German14721041
LMArena Japanese1440927
LMArena Korean1432964
LMArena Russian14741083
LMArena Spanish14661143

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14761071

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query14831062

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text14611115
LMArena Creative Writing14541075
LMArena Multi-Turn14761088
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Llama 2-70B?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Llama 2-70B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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