Model comparison

Llama 13b vs Qwen3-4B

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Llama 13b Meta

24.4

Rank #348 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-4B leads 19.2 to 14.0.

Side by side

Llama 13b and Qwen3-4B specifications
Llama 13bQwen3-4B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index24.431.9
Released2023-02-242025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked216

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3-4B
LMArena Coding683—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%

Reasoning Qwen3-4B leads

Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts728—
BIG-Bench Hard37.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index100.58—
HellaSwag79.2%—
LAMBADA75.2%—
PIQA80.1%—
WinoGrande73%—

Math Qwen3-4B leads

Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—52.2%
LMArena Math838—
GSM8K20.6%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond—52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
ARC (AI2) Challenge52.7%—
BoolQ78.7%—
MMLU47.7%—
OpenBookQA56.4%—
TriviaQA77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3-4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3-4B
ScienceQA43.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English819—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following781—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 13bQwen3-4B
LMArena Text834—
LMArena Creative Writing794—
LMArena Multi-Turn753—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 13b better than Qwen3-4B?

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 13b and Qwen3-4B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 13b has 21 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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