Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Llama 13b

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 13b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 57.1 to 13.8.
  • Llama 13b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Llama 13b specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index40.824.4
Released2025-05-222023-02-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5821

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
LMArena Coding1414683
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Llama 13b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1372728
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69100.58
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
ForecastBench60.2—
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
LMArena Math1375838
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—20.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—
LMArena Expert1372—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
MMLU—47.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—
ScienceQA—43.3%

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
LMArena Non-English1333819
LMArena Chinese1350—
LMArena French1363—
LMArena German1331—
LMArena Japanese1302—
LMArena Korean1291—
LMArena Russian1355—
LMArena Spanish1357—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1376781
IFEval84%—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1398—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 13b
LMArena Text1351834
LMArena Creative Writing1345794
LMArena Multi-Turn1376753
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Llama 13b?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Llama 13b better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Llama 13b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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