Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 21.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.2 90B Instruct. Llama 3.2 90B Instruct is $17.25 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
Meta
Llama 3.2 90B was developed as a flagship-tier open-source model, designed to provide advanced capabilities with 90 billion parameters. Built to serve applications requiring high-quality reasoning and generation, it represents a powerful option within the Llama 3.2 series for demanding tasks.
7 months newer

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25

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

Claude Sonnet 4

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Bedrock
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
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