# Claude Instant vs Llama 3.1-70B

> Llama 3.1-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#308); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-llama-3-1-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Llama 3.1-70B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 60% for Llama 3.1-70B.
- Llama 3.1-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.6 |
| Rank | — | 308 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1260 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.8% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 6.9% |
| BALROG | — | 27.9% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 60% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 125.92 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1241 |
| LMCA | — | 14.8% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 21% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1252 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 36.7% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 80.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 44.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 65.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1209 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1219 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1215 |
| LMArena French | — | 1261 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1253 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 82.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1231 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1241 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1261 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1232 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 784 |
| WildBench | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1256 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Llama 3.1-70B?

Llama 3.1-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#308); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Llama 3.1-70B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.