Model comparison
Llama 2-13B vs Llama 3.2 3B
Llama 2-13B and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Llama 3.2 3B leads 21.0 to 12.8.
Side by side
| Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 28.9 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.33 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 2-13B leads
Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1062 | 1098 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 23.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 28.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 21.9% |
| BALROG | — | 10.1% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1051 | 1095 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 42.2% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 58.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 106.17 | — |
| HellaSwag | 80.7% | — |
| LAMBADA | 76.5% | — |
| PIQA | 80.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.8% | — |
Math Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1065 | 1126 |
| GSM8K | 36.9% | — |
Knowledge Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1030 | 1090 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 82.4% | — |
| MMLU | 55.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 57% | — |
| TriviaQA | 79.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 2-13B: —, Llama 3.2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | 55.8% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1024 | 1019 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1001 | 1017 |
| LMArena German | 1009 | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | 1055 | 949 |
| LMArena French | 1044 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 894 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 953 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1087 | — |
Instruction Following Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1045 | 1089 |
Long Context Llama 3.2 3B leads
Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1064 | 1100 |
Writing & Preference Llama 2-13B leads
Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-13B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1084 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1047 | 1094 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1050 | 1105 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 595 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-13B better than Llama 3.2 3B?
Llama 2-13B and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 2-13B or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?
Llama 2-13B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.9 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Llama 3.2 3B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.