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Claude Opus 4.1 vs LLaMA 1

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1
Meta
LLaMA 1
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMeta
Release dateAug 5 2025Feb 24 2023
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
43%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
74.5%
Science
GPQA Diamond
80.9%
Timeline
Release gapLLaMA 1 shipped 893 days before Claude Opus 4.1

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.1 or LLaMA 1?

Claude Opus 4.1 and LLaMA 1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. LLaMA 1 shipped 893 days before Claude Opus 4.1, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Opus 4.1 is proprietary, while LLaMA 1 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Opus 4.1 and LLaMA 1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Opus 4.1 was released by Anthropic on Aug 5 2025.

LLaMA 1 was released by Meta on Feb 24 2023.

Claude Opus 4.1 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. LLaMA 1 is an open weight model released by Meta.

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