# Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 3.2 1B

> Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-sonnet-vs-llama-3-2-1b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3.2 1B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 42.1 to 21.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 11.3% for Llama 3.2 1B.
- Llama 3.2 1B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 20.1 |
| Rank | 319 | 354 |
| Context | — | 60K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.027 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302)
- Llama 3.2 1B: 21.1 (#338)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 8.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1070 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 11.3% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Sonnet: —
- Llama 3.2 1B: 14.6 (#150)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 10.8% |
| BALROG | — | 6.6% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237)
- Llama 3.2 1B: 16.2 (#308)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1044 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 101.99 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310)
- Llama 3.2 1B: 10.4 (#313)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 0.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1086 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276)
- Llama 3.2 1B: 7.2 (#312)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 23.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1007 |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125)
- Llama 3.2 1B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234)
- Llama 3.2 1B: 23.8 (#292)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 973 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 959 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1014 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 941 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235)
- Llama 3.2 1B: 52.4 (#290)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1031 |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228)
- Llama 3.2 1B: 31.9 (#274)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1050 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238)
- Llama 3.2 1B: 21.3 (#310)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3.2 1B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1055 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1033 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1030 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 200 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Llama 3.2 1B?

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 20.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Llama 3.2 1B better for coding?

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 21.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 3.2 1B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 1B has 22.