Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) by Meta AI, context windows of 1.0M vs 128K, tested across 51 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) is 32x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
Input
$0.59
8.5× cheaper
Output
$0.79
32× cheaper
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct) is cheaper on both — 8.5× input, 32× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
37%
Claude Opus 4.6 uses 20.7x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.6
Llama 3.1 70B (Instruct)
53%Vocabulary51%
35wSentence Length18w
0.68Hedging0.46
5.2Bold3.4
2.9Lists5.6
0.21Emoji0.00
1.34Headings0.00
0.03Transitions0.06
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