Model comparison

Llama 13b vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Llama 13b scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 8B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 8B leads 34.0 to 21.4.

Side by side

Llama 13b and Qwen3 8B specifications
	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
Provider	Meta	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	24.4	33.7
Released	2023-02-24	2025-04
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	131K
Max output	—	8K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$0.18
Output $ / M tokens	—	$0.70
Results tracked	21	11

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 8B leads

Llama 13b: 21.4 (#337), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
SciCode	—	22.6%
LMArena Coding	683	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	42.6%

Reasoning Qwen3 8B leads

Llama 13b: 14.0 (#329), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
Epoch Capabilities Index	100.58	136.17
CritPt	—	0%
Chess Puzzles	—	5%
LMArena Hard Prompts	728	—
DTBench	—	59.7%
LMCA	—	8.8%
BIG-Bench Hard	37.9%	—
HellaSwag	79.2%	—
LAMBADA	75.2%	—
PIQA	80.1%	—
WinoGrande	73%	—

Math Qwen3 8B leads

Llama 13b: 26.7 (#256), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	56.1%
LMArena Math	838	—
GSM8K	20.6%	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond	—	56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	4.8%
ARC (AI2) Challenge	52.7%	—
BoolQ	78.7%	—
MMLU	47.7%	—
OpenBookQA	56.4%	—
TriviaQA	77.9%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3 8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
ScienceQA	43.3%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 13b: 16.6 (#297), Qwen3 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Non-English	819	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 13b: 36.7 (#305), Qwen3 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following	781	—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 13b: —, Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench	—	62.1%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 13b: 13.8 (#312), Qwen3 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Llama 13b	Qwen3 8B
LMArena Text	834	—
LMArena Creative Writing	794	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	753	—

Frequently asked questions

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