Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 12.8% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Overall, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
Meta
Llama 3.1 70B was created as a balanced open-source model, designed to provide strong performance with 70 billion parameters while remaining practical for many deployment scenarios. Built to serve as a versatile foundation for fine-tuning and application development, it combines capability with accessibility in the open-source ecosystem.
3 months newer

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together