Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 33.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.2 3B Instruct. Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is $17.97 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
Meta
Llama 3.2 3B was created as an ultra-compact open-source model, designed to enable on-device and edge deployment scenarios. Built with just 3 billion parameters while retaining instruction-following abilities, it brings Meta's language technology to mobile devices, IoT applications, and resource-constrained environments.
5 months newer

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
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