Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and QwQ-32B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where QwQ-32B leads 72.6 to 51.9.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and QwQ-32B specifications
Codellama 70b InstructQwQ-32B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.739.8
Released—2024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked736

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwQ-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%44.6%
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%54.4%
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1333
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts10521325
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%
LMArena Math—1359

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
LMArena Expert—1324

Multilingual QwQ-32B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English9921305
LMArena Chinese—1378
LMArena French—1336
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279
LMArena Russian—1297
LMArena Spanish—1354

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following10241297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Text10571329
LMArena Creative Writing—1288
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and QwQ-32B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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