# Claude Instant vs Llama 2-70B

> Llama 2-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#343); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-llama-2-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 6

## Summary

- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 18.8 to 13.7.
- Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 24.1 |
| Rank | — | 343 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1079 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 41.6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 113.59 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1073 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 64.9% |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | — | 50% |
| ForecastBench | — | 51.4 |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 78.9% |
| PIQA | — | 82.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.2% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 69.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1091 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.3% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | 78.3% |
| MMLU | 73.4% | 69.9% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | 87.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1039 |
| BoolQ | — | 88.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 60.2% |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1045 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 994 |
| LMArena French | — | 1089 |
| LMArena German | — | 1041 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 927 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 964 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1142 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1071 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1062 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1115 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1075 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1088 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Llama 2-70B?

Llama 2-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#343); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.