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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs LLaMA 1

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Meta
LLaMA 1
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMeta
Release dateSep 29 2025Feb 24 2023
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
79%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
77.2%
Next.js coding
Next.js Evals
50%
Science
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
Multimodal
MMMU
68%
Timeline
Release gapLLaMA 1 shipped 948 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or LLaMA 1?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 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 948 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary, while LLaMA 1 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and LLaMA 1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Sep 29 2025.

LLaMA 1 was released by Meta on Feb 24 2023.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. LLaMA 1 is an open weight model released by Meta.

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