# Claude Instant vs Llama 3-70B

> Llama 3-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#317); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-llama-3-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3-70B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 54.2% for Llama 3-70B.
- Llama 3-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 28.5 |
| Rank | — | 317 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3-70B: 35.3 (#215)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 72% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1206 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.5% |
| MBPP+ | — | 69% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3-70B: 20.9 (#132)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 5% |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Llama 3-70B: 17.4 (#284)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 54.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | 122.91 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 35.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1195 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| WinoGrande | — | 83.5% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3-70B: 12.0 (#299)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1218 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 22.6% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#272)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 79.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1149 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3-70B: 33.8 (#246)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1114 |
| LMArena French | — | 1231 |
| LMArena German | — | 1169 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1017 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1159 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1241 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3-70B: 62.8 (#233)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1194 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#235)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1174 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Llama 3-70B: 43.0 (#225)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Llama 3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1221 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1210 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1223 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Llama 3-70B?

Llama 3-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#317); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Llama 3-70B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.