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Claude Sonnet 4 vs LLaMA 2

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4
Meta
LLaMA 2
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMeta
Release dateMay 22 2025Jul 18 2023
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
30%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
72.7%
Science
GPQA Diamond
75.4%
Timeline
Release gapLLaMA 2 shipped 674 days before Claude Sonnet 4

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4 or LLaMA 2?

Claude Sonnet 4 and LLaMA 2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. LLaMA 2 shipped 674 days before Claude Sonnet 4, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 4 is proprietary, while LLaMA 2 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4 and LLaMA 2 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 4 was released by Anthropic on May 22 2025.

LLaMA 2 was released by Meta on Jul 18 2023.

Claude Sonnet 4 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. LLaMA 2 is an open weight model released by Meta.

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