Model comparison

Sonar vs Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Sonar Perplexity

38.5

Rank #187 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Sonar leads 33.7 to 14.2.
  • Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Sonar and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B specifications
SonarTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
ProviderPerplexityAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index38.533.0
Released2024-01-012024-11-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$1—
Output $ / M tokens$1—
Results tracked714

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Sonar: 35.7 (#221), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 36.0 (#214)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkSonarTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LiveBench Coding35.1%—
LMArena Coding—1235

Reasoning Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B leads

Sonar: 21.1 (#227), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 23.9 (#169)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkSonarTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LiveBench Reasoning46.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1220
LiveBench Data Analysis37.9%—
LiveBench46.9%—

Math Sonar leads

Sonar: 33.7 (#200), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 14.2 (#303)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkSonarTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.4%
LiveBench Math41.6%—
LMArena Math—1242
MATH Level 5—42.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Sonar: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 25.0 (#264)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkSonarTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
GPQA Diamond—46.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Sonar: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 39.9 (#222)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkSonarTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Non-English—1236
LMArena Chinese—1249
LMArena Russian—1246

Instruction Following Sonar leads

Sonar: 71.4 (#150), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 64.8 (#227)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkSonarTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LiveBench Instruction Following76.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following—1233

Long Context Not comparable

Sonar: —, Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 37.1 (#222)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkSonarTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Longer Query—1224

Writing & Preference Sonar leads

Sonar: 52.6 (#167), Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B: 45.6 (#223)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkSonarTulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B
LMArena Text—1256
LMArena Creative Writing—1231
LMArena Multi-Turn—1252
LiveBench Language44.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Sonar better than Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B?

Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 33.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Sonar or Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.7 vs 36.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Sonar and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Sonar has 7 scored results on Noometry and Tulu 3 (Tülu 3) 70B has 14.

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