Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 2-70B

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

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 63.0 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.4% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 0% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 2-70B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index58.224.4
Released2026-02-042023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6835

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding15361079
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 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
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 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts15271073
DTBench91.2%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24113.79
ForecastBench6051.4
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%—
LMCA55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond90.5%26.3%
LMArena Expert15461039
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English14891045
LMArena Chinese1551995
LMArena French15131090
LMArena German15021041
LMArena Japanese1484927
LMArena Korean1464964
LMArena Russian14971083
LMArena Spanish15101143

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following15231071

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query15201062
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text15031115
LMArena Creative Writing15051075
LMArena Multi-Turn15131088
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Llama 2-70B?

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 2-70B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Llama 2-70B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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