Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Llama 2-70B

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

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 43.3 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 84.4% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 3.3% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Llama 2-70B specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index40.824.4
Released2025-05-222023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5835

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14141079
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 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts13721073
DTBench77.1%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69113.79
ForecastBench60.251.4
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
LMCA29%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%0%
LMArena Math13751091
MATH Level 584.4%3.3%
Omni-MATH60.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond79.2%26.3%
LMArena Expert13721039
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English13331045
LMArena Chinese1350995
LMArena French13631090
LMArena German13311041
LMArena Japanese1302927
LMArena Korean1291964
LMArena Russian13551083
LMArena Spanish13571143

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13761071
IFEval84%—

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query13981062
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text13511115
LMArena Creative Writing13451075
LMArena Multi-Turn13761088
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Llama 2-70B?

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

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Llama 2-70B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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