Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Llama 3.2 90B

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.5

Rank #26 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 66.1 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.7% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index54.527.1
Released2026-06-292024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked519

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#20), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
CursorBench34.1%—
LMArena WebDev1540—
SciCode53.6%—
GSO37.3%—
WeirdML68.8%—
LMArena Coding1483—
ALE-Bench1,463—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.7 (#16), Llama 3.2 90B: 29.7 (#73)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
APEX-Agents54.5%—
BALROG—27.3%
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 48.2 (#37), Llama 3.2 90B: 20.9 (#207)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
Epoch Capabilities Index156.34125.5
SimpleBench60.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)75.1%—
CritPt16.9%—
Chess Puzzles35%—
EnigmaEval—0.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1461—
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
DTBench92.5%—
LMCA50%—
Surface Evolver Bench60%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 66.1 (#21), Llama 3.2 90B: 10.4 (#302)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.7%2.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)65.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%—
ProofBench77%—
LMArena Math1467—
MATH Level 5—39.4%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.7 (#42), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#269)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond90.5%41%
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—
LMArena Expert1491—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#26), Llama 3.2 90B: 24.9 (#119)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision12751000
GeoBench—52%
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 54.0 (#55), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1475—
LMArena French1457—
LMArena German1448—
LMArena Japanese1422—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Russian1452—
LMArena Spanish1436—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.6 (#39), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Instruction Following1453—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#53), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1464—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.4 (#24), Llama 3.2 90B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1416—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794—
EQ-Bench 41236—
LMArena Multi-Turn1454—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Llama 3.2 90B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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