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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

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

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Better at math
Price Advantage
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6
Speed
Claude Opus 4.6

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$5.00$0.90 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Output (per 1M tokens)$25.00$0.90 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Cache Read (per 1M)$0.50$0.45 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
Cache Write (per 1M)$6.25N/A Claude Opus 4.6
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct is 91% cheaper overall.

Claude Opus 4.6 Providers

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Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct Providers

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Benchmark Comparison

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Claude Opus 4.6 Wins
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Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
46.513.4
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
47.610.8
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
-11.0-
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
-69.0-
GPQA
Graduate-level science
84.046.5
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
-16.9-
Aider
Real-world code editing
-54.9-
AIME
Competition math
-24.7-
Claude Opus 4.6 significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

Claude Opus 4.6
1,000,000
tokens
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
131,072
tokens
Claude Opus 4.6 has a 87% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructWinner
Tokens/second48.1 tok/s35.5 tok/s
Time to First Token1.68s0.51s
Claude Opus 4.6 responds 35% faster on average.

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct
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 Nemotron 70B Instruct
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicNvidia
ReleasedFeb 2026Oct 2024

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

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Output
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Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct Modalities

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Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct has cheaper input pricing at $0.90/M tokens. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct has cheaper output pricing at $0.90/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 47.6, compared to Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct's score of 10.8.
Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window, while Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct has a 131,072 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision. Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct does not support vision.