Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen3-1.7B

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.3

Rank #236 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.2

Rank #331 Reported

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Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.326.2
Released—2025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked74

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.0 (#189), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.5 (#108)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%

Reasoning Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 19.2 (#241), Qwen3-1.7B: 18.5 (#263)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 15.4 (#288)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond—38%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.9 (#283), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 52.1 (#288), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.6 (#272), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1057—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.3 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3-1.7B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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