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Llama 2 70B vs Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Llama 2 70B wins:

  • No clear advantages in compared metrics

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Supports tool calls
Price Advantage
Llama 2 70B
Benchmark Advantage
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Context Window
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Speed
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricLlama 2 70BLlama 3.1 405B InstructWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$0.90$0.90Tie
Output (per 1M tokens)$0.90$0.90Tie
Cache Read (per 1M)$0.45$0.45Tie
Both models have similar overall pricing.

Llama 2 70B Providers

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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Providers

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Benchmark Comparison

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Benchmarks Compared
0
Llama 2 70B Wins
5
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkLlama 2 70BLlama 3.1 405B InstructWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
8.417.4
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
-14.5-
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
-3.0-
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
40.673.2
GPQA
Graduate-level science
32.751.5
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
9.830.5
Aider
Real-world code editing
-66.2-
AIME
Competition math
0.021.3
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Llama 2 70B
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Context & Performance

Context Window

Llama 2 70B
N/A
tokens
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
131,000
tokens

Speed Performance

MetricLlama 2 70BLlama 3.1 405B InstructWinner
Tokens/second0.0 tok/s30.4 tok/s
Time to First Token0.00s0.68s
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct responds Infinity% faster on average.

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureLlama 2 70BLlama 3.1 405B Instruct
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyLlama 2 70BLlama 3.1 405B Instruct
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorMeta-llamaMeta-llama
ReleasedUnknownJul 2024

Llama 2 70B Modalities

Input
Output

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 2 70B has cheaper input pricing at $0.90/M tokens. Llama 2 70B has cheaper output pricing at $0.90/M tokens.
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 14.5, compared to Llama 2 70B's score of N/A.
Llama 2 70B has a unknown token context window, while Llama 3.1 405B Instruct has a 131,000 token context window.
Llama 2 70B does not support vision. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct does not support vision.
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