Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads with 25.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 8.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Overall, Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 75.8% across 9 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (89.1%), AIME 2025 (87.0%), TAU-bench Retail (86.2%). It supports a 264K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 2 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.
Meta
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is a language model developed by Meta. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 74.7% across 18 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM-8K (CoT) (95.1%), ARC-C (94.8%), API-Bank (90.0%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 9 API providers. Released in 2024, it represents Meta's latest advancement in AI technology.
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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 26 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4.5
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ZeroEval
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
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