# Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Llama 2-70B

> Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-5-sonnet-vs-llama-2-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 28.6 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 56.9% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 3.3% for Llama 2-70B.
- Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 24.4 |
| Rank | 231 | 349 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165)
- Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1079 |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67)
- Llama 2-70B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183)
- Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1073 |
| DTBench | 67.8% | 41.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | 113.79 |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | 51.4 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 64.9% |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | — | 50% |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 78.9% |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
| PIQA | — | 82.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.2% |

## Math

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288)
- Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 0% |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1091 |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | 3.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 69.6% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245)
- Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 26.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1039 |
| MMLU | 87.3% | 69.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 88.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 60.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 87.6% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120)
- Llama 2-70B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185)
- Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1045 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 995 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | 1090 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1041 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 927 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 964 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1083 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | 1143 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182)
- Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1071 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167)
- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1062 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164)
- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1115 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1075 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1088 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Llama 2-70B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Llama 2-70B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.