# Claude 2.1 vs Llama 4 Maverick

> Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-llama-4-maverick
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Llama 4 Maverick in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 33.3 to 15.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 67% for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 30.6 |
| Rank | 340 | 276 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.19 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.65 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | 24.5% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| SciCode | — | 33.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1302 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.4% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 172.97 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2.1: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.3% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 61.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.22 | 132.2 |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | 57.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1281 |
| LMCA | — | 15.9% |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 20.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1299 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 67% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1259 |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2.1: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1277 |
| LMArena French | — | 1258 |
| LMArena German | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1293 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2.1: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 90.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1267 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1280 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1266 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 860 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1289 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (25.8 vs 26.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Llama 4 Maverick share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.