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Claude 3 Opus vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Claude 3 Opus leads the LLM Stats Score 10.0 to 0.7.

Anthropic · NVIDIA · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude 3 Opus leads the overall LLM Stats Score 10.0 to 0.7, ranking #256 overall.

In the 4 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Claude 3 Opus wins 4; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude 3 Opus

  • overall performance matters — it scores 10.0 and ranks #256 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 4 of 4 exact shared results

Choose Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2024
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
NVIDIA
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
10.0
#256
0.7
#312
Reasoning
9.9
#249
0.4
#304
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
4 of 4
0 of 4
Input price
$15.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$75.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

3 shared
Index
Claude 3 Opus
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Math
16.4#199
7.4#257
Finance
14.5#123
6.6#154
Legal
14.5#108
6.6#140
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

11 reported for Claude 3 Opus · 11 for Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

4 shared

Claude 3 Opus outperforms in 4 benchmarks (ARC-C, GSM8k, HellaSwag, MMLU), while Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Sat Sep 05 2026 • llm-stats.com

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3 Opus specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3 Opus specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sat Sep 05 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs, whereas Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct does not.

Claude 3 Opus can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3 Opus

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3 Opus is licensed under a proprietary license, while Llama 3.1 Nemotron 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 Opus

Proprietary

Closed source

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Opus was released on 2024-02-29, while Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct was released on 2024-10-01.

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct is 7 months newer than Claude 3 Opus.

Claude 3 Opus

Feb 29, 2024

2.5 years ago

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Oct 1, 2024

1.9 years ago

7mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-12-01, while Claude 3 Opus's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct's training data extends to 2023-12-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude 3 Opus's cutoff date.

Claude 3 Opus

—

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

Dec 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3 Opus
✓ Preferred
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3 Opus vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct.

Which is better, Claude 3 Opus or Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus leads the LLM Stats Score 10.0 to 0.7. Claude 3 Opus is made by Anthropic and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct is made by NVIDIA. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude 3 Opus compare to Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude 3 Opus scores ARC-C: 96.4%, HellaSwag: 95.4%, GSM8k: 95.0%, MGSM: 90.7%, BIG-Bench Hard: 86.8%. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct scores GSM8k: 91.4%, HellaSwag: 85.6%, Winogrande: 84.5%, GSM8K Chat: 81.9%, MMLU Chat: 80.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus supports 200K tokens and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (10.0 vs 0.7), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Llama 3.1 Community License). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3 Opus and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus is developed by Anthropic and Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct is developed by NVIDIA.

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