Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 24.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.3 70B Instruct. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. 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 3.3 70B was introduced with refinements to the Llama 3 architecture, designed to incorporate improvements in instruction-following and task performance. Built to continue the evolution of Meta's 70B tier, it provides enhanced quality while maintaining the deployment characteristics valued by the open-source community.
5 months newer

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-12-06

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

Claude Sonnet 4

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together