Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4 leads with 37.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4 offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is $89.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4 supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Overall, Claude Opus 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 was developed as the flagship model in the Claude 4 generation, designed to push the boundaries of AI capability in complex reasoning, analysis, and multi-step problem-solving. Built to handle the most demanding enterprise tasks, it represents Anthropic's highest tier of intelligence and capability.
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.
10 months newer

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Opus 4

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Opus 4

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Claude Opus 4

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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