Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct Comparison

Comparing Claude 3.5 Haiku and Llama 3.1 70B Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

4 benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms in 2 benchmarks (DROP, HumanEval), while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is better at 2 benchmarks (GPQA, MMLU-Pro).

Both models are evenly matched across the benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct costs less

For input processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($0.80/1M tokens) is 4.0x more expensive than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct ($0.20/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($4.00/1M tokens) is 20.0x more expensive than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct ($0.20/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Claude 3.5 Haiku is more expensive than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input tokens$0.80

Output tokens$4.00

Best providerAWS Bedrock

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Input tokens$0.20

Output tokens$0.20

Best providerLambda

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Claude 3.5 Haiku accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to Llama 3.1 70B Instruct's 128,000 tokens. Claude 3.5 Haiku can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is limited to 128,000 tokens.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.5 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct uses Llama 3.1 Community License.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

Claude 3.5 Haiku is 3 months newer than Llama 3.1 70B Instruct.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.4 years ago

3mo newer

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

1.7 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Provider Availability

Claude 3.5 Haiku is available from Bedrock, Google, Anthropic. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available from Lambda, DeepInfra, Hyperbolic, Groq, Cerebras, Together, Fireworks, Bedrock, Sambanova. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.