Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Direct comparison between anthropic and meta for chat models. Specs, prices, strengths, weaknesses — decide on facts.
At a glance
- · Cheaper: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
- · Longer context window: Claude Opus 4.6 at 200,000 tokens
- · Claude Opus 4.6: Highest hit rate on SWE-bench among closed-source models
- · Llama 3.3 70B Instruct: Open weights available — no vendor lock-in
Spec comparison
| Spec | Claude Opus 4.6 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | anthropic | meta |
| Input per 1M tokens | $5.00 / 1M | $0.72 / 1M |
| Output per 1M tokens | $25.00 / 1M | $0.72 / 1M |
| Context window | 200,000 tok | 128,000 tok |
| Max output | 32,000 tok | 4,096 tok |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-07 | 2023-12 |
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Claude Opus 4.6 — strengths
- +Highest hit rate on SWE-bench among closed-source models
- +Excellent at multi-day agentic tasks without drift
- +Top performance on multi-repo code analysis
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct — strengths
- +Open weights available — no vendor lock-in
- +Very cheap per token, widely available across providers
- +Solid all-rounder for classification and simple generation
Claude Opus 4.6 — weaknesses
- −Substantially pricier per token than Sonnet — rarely worth the markup
- −Higher latency, especially with extended thinking enabled
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct — weaknesses
- −Knowledge cutoff December 2023 — outdated on recent facts
- −No native vision or audio input
- −Behind Claude Sonnet and GPT-5 across nearly all benchmarks