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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 5.5 wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · math.

Category leads
general·Claude Opus 5.5knowledge·Claude Opus 5.5math·Claude Opus 5.5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 5.5
#3 by perf·#7 by attention
DESERVED
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
#216 by perf·#18 by attention
QUIET
Best value
13.2x better value than Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5
6.9 pts/$
$12.00/M
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
90.7 pts/$
$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 5.5Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Dtbench
Claude Opus 5.5 leads by +64.9
Claude Opus 5.5
98.2
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
33.3
GPQA diamond
Claude Opus 5.5 leads by +61.9
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Opus 5.5
87.5
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
25.6
Lmca
Claude Opus 5.5 leads by +62.8
Claude Opus 5.5
80.3
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
17.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Claude Opus 5.5 leads by +96.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Opus 5.5
100.0
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
3.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Dtbench
98.233.3
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
87.525.6
Lmca
80.317.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
100.03.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 5.5$4.00$20.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$80.00
Meta logoLlama 3.1 70B Instruct$0.40$0.40131K tokens (~66 books)$4.00