Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Wizardlm 70b

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

Wizardlm 70b Microsoft

33.0

Rank #249 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 7 categories and Wizardlm 70b 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 34.8.
  • Wizardlm 70b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Wizardlm 70b specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index40.833.0
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5812

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Coding14141081
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), Wizardlm 70b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Hard Prompts13721079
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Math13751116
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Wizardlm 70b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—
LMArena Expert1372—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Wizardlm 70b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Non-English13331078
LMArena Chinese13501052
LMArena German13311083
LMArena Russian13551155
LMArena French1363—
LMArena Japanese1302—
LMArena Korean1291—
LMArena Spanish1357—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Instruction Following13761093
IFEval84%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Longer Query13981097
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Wizardlm 70b
LMArena Text13511120
LMArena Creative Writing13451149
LMArena Multi-Turn13761108
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Wizardlm 70b?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Wizardlm 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 Wizardlm 70b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.

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