Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 2-70B

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.1

Rank #343 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 2-70B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 21.1 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 3.3% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index28.824.1
Released2024-02-292023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked3035

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-70B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Llama 2-70B: 30.8 (#281)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding12231079
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Llama 2-70B: 13.7 (#324)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971073
DTBench53.6%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69113.59
WinoGrande75.1%80.2%
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%

Math Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Llama 2-70B: 7.5 (#320)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%0%
LMArena Math12131091
MATH Level 518.2%3.3%
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#305)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond40.6%26.3%
LMArena Expert11731039
MMLU75.9%69.9%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Llama 2-70B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Llama 2-70B: 27.9 (#269)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English12051045
LMArena Chinese1188994
LMArena French12281089
LMArena German12041041
LMArena Japanese1131927
LMArena Korean1128964
LMArena Russian12271083
LMArena Spanish12041142

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Llama 2-70B: 55.1 (#273)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following12001071

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Llama 2-70B: 32.2 (#265)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query12111062

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Llama 2-70B: 32.5 (#274)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text12181115
LMArena Creative Writing11861075
LMArena Multi-Turn12271088

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Llama 2-70B?

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 24.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Llama 2-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.8 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 2-70B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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