Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Llama 2-7B

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.2 to 15.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 42% for Claude Opus 5 and 0% for Llama 2-7B.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and Llama 2-7B specifications
Claude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index67.829.1
Released2026-07-242023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked5729

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Coding15341002
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Llama 2-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
Chess Puzzles42%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15261009
Epoch Capabilities Index162.7899.06
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Math15311042
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Expert15571036
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
MMLU—45.8%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1501973
LMArena Chinese1574973
LMArena French1519970
LMArena German1524978
LMArena Russian1507995
LMArena Spanish15191007
LMArena Japanese1516—
LMArena Korean1521—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following15171006

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1515999

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-7B
LMArena Text15071053
LMArena Creative Writing14911033
LMArena Multi-Turn14991029
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Llama 2-7B?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Llama 2-7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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