Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Qwen3 14B

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

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Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Qwen3 14B Alibaba (Qwen)

35.5

Rank #225 Confirmed

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3 14B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.735.5
Released—2025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$1.40
Results tracked712

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
SciCode—31.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41%

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.1%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1052—
DTBench—64%
LMCA—18.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—138.23

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—66.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
GPQA Diamond—63.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Qwen3 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Non-English992—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Qwen3 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1024—

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.5%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Qwen3 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwen3 14B
LMArena Text1057—

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.6 vs 37.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Qwen3 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.

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