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Claude Opus 4 vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 4 wins 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · math.

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general·Claude Opus 4knowledge·Claude Opus 4math·Claude Opus 4coding·Claude Opus 4
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4
#150 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
#216 by perf·#18 by attention
QUIET
Best value
88.8x better value than Claude Opus 4
Claude Opus 4
1.0 pts/$
$45.00/M
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
90.7 pts/$
$0.40/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.87T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Dtbench
Claude Opus 4 leads by +36.0
Claude Opus 4
69.3
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
33.3
GPQA diamond
Claude Opus 4 leads by +42.8
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Opus 4
68.3
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
25.6
Lmca
Claude Opus 4 leads by +26.6
Claude Opus 4
44.0
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
17.5
MATH level 5
Claude Opus 4 leads by +48.4
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Claude Opus 4
85.0
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
36.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Claude Opus 4 leads by +60.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Opus 4
64.4
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
3.5
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4 leads by +34.8
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Opus 4
43.7
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
9.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Dtbench
69.333.3
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
68.325.6
Lmca
44.017.5
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
85.036.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
64.43.5
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
43.79.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4$15.00$75.00200K tokens (~100 books)$300.00
Meta logoLlama 3.1 70B Instruct$0.40$0.40131K tokens (~66 books)$4.00