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Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 19.3% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.1 405B Instruct. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is $16.22 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is available on 8 providers. Overall, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents Anthropic's first hybrid reasoning model, capable of producing near-instant responses or extended step-by-step thinking that is visible to users. Developed with particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development, it allows users to control thinking budgets and balances real-world task performance with reasoning capabilities for enterprise applications.
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Meta
Llama 3.1 405B was developed as Meta's largest open-source language model, designed to provide frontier-level capabilities with 405 billion parameters. Built to demonstrate that open-source models can match proprietary systems in capability, it enables researchers and developers to experiment with and deploy a powerful foundation model without licensing restrictions.
7 months newer
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Input:$0.89
Output:$0.89($16.22 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Average Score:89.0%(+19.3%)
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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Average Score:69.7%
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
4 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
Bedrock
Throughput: 101 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Avg Score:89.0%(+19.3%)
Providers:4
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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Avg Score:69.7%
Providers:8