Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 3-8B

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 25.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.3

Rank #338 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3-8B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Sonnet leads 21.1 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 36.9% for Llama 3-8B.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index28.825.3
Released2024-02-292024-04-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.14
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked3034

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-8B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Llama 3-8B: 30.5 (#285)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%31.9%
LMArena Coding12231152
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%36.9%
HumanEval+64%56.7%
MBPP+69.3%54.8%
WeirdML10.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Llama 3-8B: 13.8 (#321)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971133
DTBench53.6%43.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69116.33
WinoGrande75.1%75.7%
Chess Puzzles—0%
Adversarial NLI—57.3%
ForecastBench—58.6

Math Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Llama 3-8B: 8.3 (#317)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%1.9%
LMArena Math12131151
MATH Level 518.2%6.1%

Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#303)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
GPQA Diamond40.6%26.1%
LMArena Expert11731113
MMLU75.9%68.8%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—82.8%
OpenBookQA—82.6%
TriviaQA—67.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Llama 3-8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#256)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
LMArena Non-English12051098
LMArena Chinese11881076
LMArena French12281158
LMArena German12041104
LMArena Japanese1131967
LMArena Korean11281003
LMArena Russian12271109
LMArena Spanish12041172

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Llama 3-8B: 58.7 (#255)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
LMArena Instruction Following12001127

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#246)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
LMArena Longer Query12111128

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Llama 3-8B: 37.7 (#251)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetLlama 3-8B
LMArena Text12181166
LMArena Creative Writing11861150
LMArena Multi-Turn12271152

Frequently asked questions

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

Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 25.3 on the Noometry Index.

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

Llama 3-8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.

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