Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 13b

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 13b in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 73.5 to 13.8.
  • Llama 13b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 13b specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index58.224.4
Released2026-02-042023-02-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6821

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
LMArena Coding1536683
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Llama 13b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
LMArena Hard Prompts1527728
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24100.58
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard—37.9%
ForecastBench60—
HellaSwag—79.2%
LAMBADA—75.2%
PIQA—80.1%
WinoGrande—73%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Llama 13b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—52.7%
BoolQ—78.7%
MMLU—47.7%
OpenBookQA—56.4%
TriviaQA—77.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Llama 13b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—
ScienceQA—43.3%

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
LMArena Non-English1489819
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
LMArena Instruction Following1523781

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Llama 13b: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 13b
LMArena Text1503834
LMArena Creative Writing1505794
LMArena Multi-Turn1513753
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Llama 13b?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Llama 13b better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 13b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Llama 13b has 21.

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