Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen1.5-32B

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-32B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Qwen1.5-32B leads 31.4 to 24.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 40.7% for Codellama 70b Instruct and 32.3% for Qwen1.5-32B.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-32B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.730.5
Released—2024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked721

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%42%
LMArena Coding—1155
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts10521130

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math—1155

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond—30.7%
LMArena Expert—1126
MMLU—74.4%

Multilingual Qwen1.5-32B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English9921106
LMArena Chinese—1177
LMArena French—1101
LMArena German—1058
LMArena Japanese—1027
LMArena Korean—1008
LMArena Russian—1073
LMArena Spanish—1089

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-32B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following10241116

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query—1146

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text10571137
LMArena Creative Writing—1083
LMArena Multi-Turn—1140

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen1.5-32B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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