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Claude 3 Sonnet vs Llama 3 70B Instruct
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Winner summary
Llama 3 70B Instruct wins on 4/5 benchmarks
Llama 3 70B Instruct wins 4 of 5 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math.
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Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude 3 Sonnet
#280 by perf·no signal
Llama 3 70B Instruct
#255 by perf·#19 by attention
Best value
Llama 3 70B Instruct
Claude 3 Sonnet
n/a
no price
Llama 3 70B Instruct
51.8 pts/$
$0.63/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Meta AI
$1.65T·Tier 1
Head to head
5 benchmarks · 2 models
Claude 3 SonnetLlama 3 70B Instruct
GPQA diamond
Claude 3 Sonnet leads by +0.9
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude 3 Sonnet
21.7
Llama 3 70B Instruct
20.8
MATH level 5
Llama 3 70B Instruct leads by +4.4
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Claude 3 Sonnet
18.2
Llama 3 70B Instruct
22.6
MMLU
Llama 3 70B Instruct leads by +4.5
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
Claude 3 Sonnet
67.9
Llama 3 70B Instruct
72.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Llama 3 70B Instruct leads by +1.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude 3 Sonnet
2.4
Llama 3 70B Instruct
4.2
Winogrande
Llama 3 70B Instruct leads by +16.8
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
Claude 3 Sonnet
50.2
Llama 3 70B Instruct
67.0
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Llama 3 70B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
GPQA diamond Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs. | 21.7 | 20.8 |
MATH level 5 MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics. | 18.2 | 22.6 |
MMLU Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge. | 67.9 | 72.4 |
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills. | 2.4 | 4.2 |
Winogrande WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs. | 50.2 | 67.0 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |
| $0.51 | $0.74 | 8K tokens (~4 books) | $5.67 |