Model comparison

Codellama 34b Instruct vs Qwen3-1.7B

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 34b Instruct Meta

30.2

Rank #285 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Codellama 34b Instruct leads 28.5 to 15.4.

Side by side

Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Codellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.226.2
Released—2025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked144

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.0 (#310), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
BigCodeBench Instruct29%—
LMArena Coding1046—
BigCodeBench Complete37.1%—
HumanEval+43.9%—
MBPP+56.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 34b Instruct: 18.8 (#250), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1032—

Math Codellama 34b Instruct leads

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#227), Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
LMArena Math1056—

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond—38%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.9 (#279), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1011—
LMArena Chinese976—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.4 (#286), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1028—

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.8 (#279), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1014—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.4 (#292), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 34b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1066—
LMArena Creative Writing1032—
LMArena Multi-Turn1015—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Codellama 34b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen3-1.7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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