Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Llama 2-7B

Llama 2-13B and Llama 2-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Llama 2-7B Meta

29.1

Rank #317 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 2-7B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Llama 2-7B specifications
Llama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index29.629.1
Released2023-07-182023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3229

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Coding10621002

Reasoning Llama 2-7B leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
Chess Puzzles0%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts10511009
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%39.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index106.1799.06
HellaSwag80.7%77.2%
LAMBADA76.5%73.3%
PIQA80.8%78.8%
WinoGrande72.8%69.2%
DTBench42.2%—

Math Too close to call

Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Math10651042
GSM8K36.9%16.7%

Knowledge Too close to call

Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Expert10301036
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%45.9%
BoolQ82.4%77.9%
MMLU55.6%45.8%
OpenBookQA57%58.6%
TriviaQA79.6%73.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Llama 2-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
ScienceQA55.8%43.1%

Multilingual Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Non-English1024973
LMArena Chinese1001973
LMArena French1044970
LMArena German1009978
LMArena Russian1055995
LMArena Spanish10871007
LMArena Japanese894—
LMArena Korean953—

Instruction Following Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Instruction Following10451006

Long Context Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Longer Query1064999

Writing & Preference Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 2-7B
LMArena Text10841053
LMArena Creative Writing10471033
LMArena Multi-Turn10501029

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Llama 2-7B?

Llama 2-13B and Llama 2-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 2-13B or Llama 2-7B better for coding?

Llama 2-13B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.9 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Llama 2-7B share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-7B has 29.

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