# Claude 3 Haiku vs Llama 2-13B

> Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-haiku-vs-llama-2-13b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 2-13B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 2-13B leads 31.1 to 9.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 50.1% for Claude 3 Haiku and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
- Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 340 | 309 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325)
- Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1062 |
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307)
- Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1051 |
| DTBench | 50.1% | 42.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.35 | 106.17 |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | 72.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 58.2% |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 80.7% |
| LAMBADA | — | 76.5% |
| PIQA | — | 80.8% |

## Math

- Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319)
- Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1065 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 36.9% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285)
- Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1030 |
| MMLU | 73.8% | 55.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 82.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 57% |
| TriviaQA | — | 79.6% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128)
- Llama 2-13B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 72% | 55.8% |
| LMArena Vision | 950 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243)
- Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1024 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1001 |
| LMArena French | 1195 | 1044 |
| LMArena German | 1174 | 1009 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | 894 |
| LMArena Korean | 1109 | 953 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 1055 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1166 | 1087 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247)
- Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1173 | 1045 |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237)
- Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1190 | 1064 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291)
- Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1047 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1050 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Llama 2-13B?

Llama 2-13B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.6 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Haiku or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Llama 2-13B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.9 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Llama 2-13B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.