Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Llama 3.2 90B

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 90B Meta

27.5

Rank #331 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 3.2 90B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 11.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.3% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 2.6% for Llama 3.2 90B.
  • Llama 3.2 90B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Llama 3.2 90B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index60.727.5
Released2026-05-282024-09-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked659

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
LMArena Coding1490—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
BALROG—27.3%
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
EnigmaEval23.5%0.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21125.5
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1482—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
GPQA Diamond91%41%
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1502—
MMLU—80.3%

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Vision12941000
GeoBench—52%
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Non-English1450—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1481—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1474—
LMArena Spanish1466—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Longer Query1483—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Llama 3.2 90B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Llama 3.2 90B
LMArena Text1461—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Llama 3.2 90B?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 27.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Llama 3.2 90B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 90B has 9.

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