# Claude 2 vs Llama 2-13B

> Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-llama-2-13b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 2-13B leads 31.1 to 9.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 51.9% for Claude 2 and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
- Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 346 | 309 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1062 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 42.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 106.17 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1051 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 58.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 80.7% |
| LAMBADA | — | 76.5% |
| PIQA | — | 80.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.8% |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1065 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 36.9% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 78.5% | 55.6% |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | 79.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1030 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 82.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 57% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2: —
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | — | 55.8% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1001 |
| LMArena French | — | 1044 |
| LMArena German | — | 1009 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 894 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 953 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1055 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1087 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1045 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1064 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1047 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1050 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Llama 2-13B?

Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Llama 2-13B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.