Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Llama 2-70B

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 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 5 leads 86.2 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.9% for Claude Opus 5 and 0% for Llama 2-70B.
  • Llama 2-70B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and Llama 2-70B specifications
Claude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index67.824.4
Released2026-07-242023-07-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked5735

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Coding15341079
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts15261073
DTBench97.9%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78113.79
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%0%
LMArena Math15311091
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
ProofBench99%—
MATH Level 5—3.3%
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond93.9%26.3%
LMArena Expert15571039
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Llama 2-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English15011045
LMArena Chinese1574995
LMArena French15191090
LMArena German15241041
LMArena Japanese1516927
LMArena Korean1521964
LMArena Russian15071083
LMArena Spanish15191143

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following15171071

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query15151062

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Llama 2-70B
LMArena Text15071115
LMArena Creative Writing14911075
LMArena Multi-Turn14991088
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Llama 2-70B?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Llama 2-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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