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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs LLaMA 3.2

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Meta
LLaMA 3.2
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMeta
Release dateSep 29 2025Sep 25 2024
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Specifications
Parameters
1B/3B
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 3.2 shipped 369 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or LLaMA 3.2?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and LLaMA 3.2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. LLaMA 3.2 shipped 369 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary, while LLaMA 3.2 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and LLaMA 3.2 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 3.2 was released by Meta on Sep 25 2024.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. LLaMA 3.2 is an open weight model released by Meta.

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