Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 3.1-8B

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Llama 3.1-8B Meta

23.0

Rank #352 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3.1-8B in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 21.1 to 8.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 40.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 27% for Llama 3.1-8B.
  • Llama 3.1-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index29.023.0
Released2024-02-292024-07-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked3043

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Llama 3.1-8B: 20.2 (#340)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
WeirdML10.2%1.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%32.8%
LMArena Coding12231195
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%40.5%
HumanEval+64%62.8%
MBPP+69.3%55.6%
SciCode—13.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Llama 3.1-8B: 22.5 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—25.8%
BALROG—15.1%

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Llama 3.1-8B: 14.9 (#321)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971175
DTBench53.6%50.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7116.57
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMCA—5.4%
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Llama 3.1-8B: 10.2 (#317)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%1.7%
LMArena Math12131179
MATH Level 518.2%22.9%
Omni-MATH—13.7%
GSM8K—82.4%

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Llama 3.1-8B: 8.0 (#307)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
GPQA Diamond40.6%27%
LMArena Expert11731144
MMLU75.9%56.1%
MMLU-Pro—40.6%
GPQA (HELM)—24.7%
BoolQ—82.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Llama 3.1-8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Llama 3.1-8B: 34.0 (#249)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Non-English12051148
LMArena Chinese11891151
LMArena French12291177
LMArena German12041144
LMArena Japanese11311061
LMArena Korean11281053
LMArena Russian12271158
LMArena Spanish12041169

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Llama 3.1-8B: 58.9 (#258)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Instruction Following11991159
IFEval—74.3%

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Llama 3.1-8B: 35.8 (#238)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Longer Query12111182

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Llama 3.1-8B: 29.7 (#290)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3.1-8B
LMArena Text12181187
LMArena Creative Writing11861154
LMArena Multi-Turn12271172
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—713
WildBench—68.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Llama 3.1-8B?

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Llama 3.1-8B better for coding?

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Llama 3.1-8B share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-8B has 43.

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