Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Sonar Deep Research
Updated October 21, 2026. 0 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- 7.7
- Output $/M
- $0.72
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $8.00
Decision reading
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has the edge where output tokens cost 11.1x less, and where the context window is larger, 131K against 128K tokens.
- Shared results
- 0
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct only
- 51
- Sonar Deep Research only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 0 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has a AA Intelligence Index result, 7.7.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct takes 131K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct $0.0008, Sonar Deep Research $0.0060 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct not benchmarked, Sonar Deep Research not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- No category has a result for both models.
- Widest single gap
- No benchmark has a result for both models.
- Output price
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct $0.72 against Sonar Deep Research $8.00 per million output tokens, 11.1x apart.
- Context window
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct takes 131K tokens, Sonar Deep Research 128K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Sonar Deep Research | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Coding Index | 11.9 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 28.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 3.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| WeirdML | 14.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1268 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1273 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Sonar Deep Research | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.7 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.3 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Sonar Deep Research | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 26.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| BALROG | 23.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Sonar Deep Research | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 49.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 3.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 47.4% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| SimpleBench | 19.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1257 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1225 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1277 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Sonar Deep Research | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 7.7 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 7.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 5.1% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| MATH level 5 | 41.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1267 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1267 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Sonar Deep Research | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 71.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| MMLU | 86.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1284 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1275 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1284 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1243 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Sonar Deep Research | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 9 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Sonar Deep Research | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 47.1% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 15.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| DTBench | 59.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMCA | 17.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text | 1274 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1242 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1250 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1303 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1236 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1217 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1251 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1150 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1142 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1282 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1269 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1252 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1259 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1280 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1255 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1255 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1241 | Not measured | Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Sonar Deep Research | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Meta Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Perplexity Sonar Deep Research |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | Perplexity |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | December 6, 2024 | March 7, 2025 |
| Context window | 131K | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.45 | $2.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.72 | $8.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Llama 3.3 70B Instruct better than Sonar Deep Research for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has the edge where output tokens cost 11.1x less, and where the context window is larger, 131K against 128K tokens.
Which is cheaper, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Sonar Deep Research?
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct costs $0.45 per million input tokens and $0.72 per million output tokens; Sonar Deep Research costs $2.00 and $8.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Sonar Deep Research?
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Sonar Deep Research comparison based on?
0 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Sonar Deep Research's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.