Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Llama 2-70B

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.1

Rank #343 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4 leads 43.9 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 85% for Claude Opus 4 and 3.3% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Llama 2-70B specifications
Claude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index42.924.1
Released2025-05-222023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5635

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14421079
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts13991073
DTBench81.6%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67113.59
ForecastBench61.151.4
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
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 leads

Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%0%
LMArena Math13911091
MATH Level 585%3.3%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond76.3%26.3%
LMArena Expert13841039
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English13621045
LMArena Chinese1386994
LMArena French13701089
LMArena German13911041
LMArena Japanese1332927
LMArena Korean1318964
LMArena Russian13921083
LMArena Spanish13881142

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14061071
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query14221062
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text13771115
LMArena Creative Writing13861075
LMArena Multi-Turn13961088
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Llama 2-70B?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 30.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Llama 2-70B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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