Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Llama 3-70B

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 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 leads 42.0 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 85% for Claude Opus 4 and 22.6% for Llama 3-70B.
  • Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Llama 3-70B specifications
Claude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index43.128.8
Released2025-05-222024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5631

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
LMArena Coding14421206
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
AlgoTune1.33—
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
Cybench38%5%
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts13991195
DTBench81.6%54.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67122.93
ForecastBench61.157.1
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%4.3%
LMArena Math13901218
MATH Level 585%22.6%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
GPQA Diamond76.3%40.6%
LMArena Expert13861149
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English13621142
LMArena Chinese13861114
LMArena French13721232
LMArena German13911169
LMArena Japanese13311017
LMArena Korean13211017
LMArena Russian13921159
LMArena Spanish13891241

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14061194
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query14221174
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3-70B
LMArena Text13771221
LMArena Creative Writing13871210
LMArena Multi-Turn13961223
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Llama 3-70B?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Llama 3-70B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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