Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct leads with 3.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.3 70B Instruct. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is $89.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Meta
Llama 3.3 70B was introduced with refinements to the Llama 3 architecture, designed to incorporate improvements in instruction-following and task performance. Built to continue the evolution of Meta's 70B tier, it provides enhanced quality while maintaining the deployment characteristics valued by the open-source community.
9 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-12-06
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Claude 3 Opus

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together