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Meta-llama
Meta-llama

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.6 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Supports vision
  • Has reasoning mode
  • Supports tool calls

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
Price Advantage
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6
Speed
Claude Opus 4.6

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorAnthropicMeta-llama
ReleasedFeb 2026Unknown

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B Modalities

Input
Output

Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B has cheaper input pricing at $0.90/M tokens. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B has cheaper output pricing at $0.90/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window, while Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B has a 131,072 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct 1B does not support vision.