Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Llama 2-7B

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.1

Rank #42 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

28.6

Rank #315 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 70.4 to 28.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 13% for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 0% for Llama 2-7B.
  • Llama 2-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Llama 2-7B specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index50.128.6
Released2026-02-172023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5729

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.0 (#62), Llama 2-7B: 28.7 (#302)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Coding15041002
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1521—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#26), Llama 2-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#40), Llama 2-7B: 15.1 (#309)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
Chess Puzzles13%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851009
Epoch Capabilities Index152.2598.54
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA46.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—39.2%
ForecastBench62—
HellaSwag—77.2%
LAMBADA—73.3%
PIQA—78.8%
WinoGrande—69.2%

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.9 (#41), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#231)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Math14631042
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—
GSM8K—16.7%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.6 (#60), Llama 2-7B: 27.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Expert15001036
GPQA Diamond87.4%—
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—45.9%
BoolQ—77.9%
MMLU—45.8%
OpenBookQA—58.6%
TriviaQA—73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#61), Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—
ScienceQA—43.1%

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.6 (#39), Llama 2-7B: 23.9 (#288)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1440973
LMArena Chinese1491973
LMArena French1465969
LMArena German1428978
LMArena Russian1440995
LMArena Spanish14651007
LMArena Japanese1419—
LMArena Korean1411—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.6 (#23), Llama 2-7B: 51.0 (#293)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following14761006

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#40), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1479999

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.4 (#22), Llama 2-7B: 28.1 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Llama 2-7B
LMArena Text14581053
LMArena Creative Writing14351033
LMArena Multi-Turn14641029
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
EQ-Bench 41207—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Llama 2-7B?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.0 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Llama 2-7B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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