Model comparison
Codellama 34b Instruct vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen3 8B leads 37.9 to 30.9.
Side by side
| Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 33.7 |
| Released | — | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.5 (#314), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1046 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 37.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 43.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 56.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Codellama 34b Instruct leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 19.6 (#255), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1032 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
Math Qwen3 8B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 31.0 (#230), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1056 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 25.8 (#284), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1011 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 976 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 52.2 (#291), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1028 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
Codellama 34b Instruct: 30.9 (#284), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1013 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codellama 34b Instruct: 28.2 (#297), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Codellama 34b Instruct | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1066 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1015 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codellama 34b Instruct better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Codellama 34b Instruct or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codellama 34b Instruct and Qwen3 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 34b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.