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Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Llama 3.2 90B

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 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 leads 40.2 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 64.4% for Claude Opus 4 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 4Llama 3.2 90B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index42.927.1
Released2025-05-222024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked569

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
LMArena Coding1442—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
BALROG—27.3%
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
EnigmaEval5.6%0.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67125.5
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1399—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%2.6%
MATH Level 585%39.4%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
LMArena Math1391—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond76.3%41%
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
LMArena Expert1384—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision11921000
GeoBench49%52%
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1362—
LMArena Chinese1386—
LMArena French1370—
LMArena German1391—
LMArena Japanese1332—
LMArena Korean1318—
LMArena Russian1392—
LMArena Spanish1388—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
IFEval91.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1406—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1422—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1377—
LMArena Creative Writing1386—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1396—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Llama 3.2 90B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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