Claude 3 Opus vs Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
Compare Claude 3 Opus by Anthropic against Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) by Meta AI, context windows of 200K vs 128K, tested across 11 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude 3 Opus
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude 3 Opus has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window.
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) is 95x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3 Opus
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
Input
$0.59
25× cheaper
Output
$0.79
95× cheaper
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) is cheaper on both — 25× input, 95× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
54%
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) uses 342.8x more bold
Claude 3 Opus
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
54%Vocabulary51%
14wSentence Length18w
0.48Hedging0.46
0.0Bold3.4
3.0Lists5.6
0.00Emoji0.00
0.00Headings0.00
0.06Transitions0.06
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