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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.0 to 4.8.

Anthropic · NVIDIA · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 58.0 to 4.8, ranking #3 overall.

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

Choose Claude Sonnet 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 58.0 and ranks #3 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
NVIDIA
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
58.0
#3
4.8
#308
Reasoning
56.6
#3
5.3
#303
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
$2.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$10.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Math
36.9#34
8.8#259
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

47 reported for Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 7 for Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

No common benchmarks found

Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Tue Sep 29 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 does not.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 uses Llama 3.1 Community License.

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

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Sonnet 5.5 was released on 2026-09-28, while Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 was released on 2025-03-18.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 19 months newer than Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Sep 28, 2026

1 days ago

1.5yr newer
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Mar 18, 2025

1.5 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has a knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 has a cutoff of 2023-12-31.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has more recent training data (up to 2026-06-01), making it potentially better informed about events through that date compared to Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 (2023-12-31).

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Jun 2026

2.5 yr newer
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Dec 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Sonnet 5.5
✓ Preferred
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1.

Which is better, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.0 to 4.8. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is made by Anthropic and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 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 Sonnet 5.5 compare to Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 in benchmarks?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores BenchCAD (with Python tool): 96.3%, ArXivMath (with tools): 95.2%, Global-MMLU: 92.1%, MILU: 91.6%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 90.3%. Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 scores MATH-500: 95.4%, MBPP: 84.6%, MT-Bench: 81.0%, IFEval: 79.3%, BFCL v2: 63.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 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 Sonnet 5.5 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (58.0 vs 4.8), 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 Sonnet 5.5 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is developed by NVIDIA.

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