Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 2-13B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 91.2% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.
  • Llama 2-13B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 2-13B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index58.229.6
Released2026-02-042023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6832

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
LMArena Coding15361062
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 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
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 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles17%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15271051
DTBench91.2%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24106.17
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
LMCA55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
ForecastBench60—
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
LMArena Expert15461030
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English14891024
LMArena Chinese15511001
LMArena French15131044
LMArena German15021009
LMArena Japanese1484894
LMArena Korean1464953
LMArena Russian14971055
LMArena Spanish15101087

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following15231045

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query15201064
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-13B
LMArena Text15031084
LMArena Creative Writing15051047
LMArena Multi-Turn15131050
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Llama 2-13B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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