Claude 3.5 SonnetvsLlama 3.1 405B
Anthropic
🏆 Overall WinnerClaude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic's most intelligent model
Arena ELO
1298
Context
200K
Speed
85 t/s
Input/1M
$3
Meta
Llama 3.1 405B
Meta's open-source frontier model
Arena ELO
1247
Context
128K
Speed
45 t/s
Input/1M
$0.9
Capability Radar
Category performance across 6 domains
Benchmark Scores
MMLU · HumanEval · MATH · GSM8K · GPQA · BBH
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Pros
✓Best coding (SWE-bench leader)
✓200K context window
✓Exceptional instruction following
Cons
✗Slower than GPT-4o
✗No native audio capabilities
Llama 3.1 405B
Pros
✓Fully open-source and free to deploy
✓No data leaves your infrastructure
✓Competitive benchmarks
Cons
✗Requires significant compute to self-host
✗No official vendor support
🏆 Our Verdict
Based on overall benchmark averages, Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the edge with an average score of 84.6% across all benchmarks. However, the best choice depends on your use case — Claude 3.5 Sonnet excels in best coding (swe-bench leader), while Llama 3.1 405B stands out for fully open-source and free to deploy.