Model comparison

Llama 13b vs Llama 3-70B

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3-70B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Llama 3-70B leads 42.8 to 13.8.

Side by side

Llama 13b and Llama 3-70B specifications
Llama 13bLlama 3-70B
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index24.428.8
Released2023-02-242024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2131

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding6831206
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts7281195
Epoch Capabilities Index100.58122.93
WinoGrande73%83.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—35.1%
DTBench—54.2%
BIG-Bench Hard37.9%—
ForecastBench—57.1
HellaSwag79.2%—
LAMBADA75.2%—
PIQA80.1%—

Math Llama 13b leads

Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
LMArena Math8381218
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
MATH Level 5—22.6%
GSM8K20.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
MMLU47.7%79.3%
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
LMArena Expert—1149
ARC (AI2) Challenge52.7%—
BoolQ78.7%—
OpenBookQA56.4%—
TriviaQA77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Llama 3-70B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
ScienceQA43.3%—

Multilingual Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English8191142
LMArena Chinese—1114
LMArena French—1232
LMArena German—1169
LMArena Japanese—1017
LMArena Korean—1017
LMArena Russian—1159
LMArena Spanish—1241

Instruction Following Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following7811194

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query—1174

Writing & Preference Llama 3-70B leads

Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bLlama 3-70B
LMArena Text8341221
LMArena Creative Writing7941210
LMArena Multi-Turn7531223

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 13b better than Llama 3-70B?

Llama 3-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 13b or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 21.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and Llama 3-70B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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