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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 50.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 8.0K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.2 3B Instruct. Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is $17.97 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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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.
1 year newer
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Input:$0.01
Output:$0.02($17.97 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Average Score:83.4%(+50.6%)
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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Average Score:32.8%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
2 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Avg Score:83.4%(+50.6%)
Providers:2
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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Avg Score:32.8%
Providers:1