Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 27.2% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 137.9K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.1 8B Instruct. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is $17.94 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 8B 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 8B was developed as an efficient open-source model, designed to bring capable instruction-following to applications with limited computational resources. Built with 8 billion parameters, it provides a lightweight option for developers seeking reliable performance without the overhead of larger models.
3 months newer

Llama 3.1 8B 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 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
2023-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together