Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

30.1

Rank #297 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.730.1
Released—2024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked77

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%45%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%52.3%
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—
Epoch Capabilities Index—128.52

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1057—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 37.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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