Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Llama 2-13B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 2 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads 71.1 to 53.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 59.5% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
Llama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index29.630.6
Released2023-07-182024-12-06
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.32
Results tracked3243

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Coding10621268
SciCode—26%
WeirdML—14.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
BALROG—23%

Reasoning Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10511257
DTBench42.2%59.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index106.17127.33
SimpleBench—19.9%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
LMCA—17.5%
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%—
ForecastBench—58.6
HellaSwag80.7%—
LAMBADA76.5%—
LiveBench—50.2%
PIQA80.8%—
WinoGrande72.8%—

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Math10651267
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.1%
LiveBench Math—42.2%
MATH Level 5—41.6%
GSM8K36.9%—

Knowledge Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Expert10301225
MMLU55.6%86.3%
GPQA Diamond—47.4%
Confabulations—22.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%—
BoolQ82.4%—
OpenBookQA57%—
TriviaQA79.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ScienceQA55.8%—

Multilingual Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English10241236
LMArena Chinese10011217
LMArena French10441281
LMArena German10091251
LMArena Japanese8941150
LMArena Korean9531143
LMArena Russian10551252
LMArena Spanish10871270

Instruction Following Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10451242
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%

Long Context Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Longer Query10641256
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text10841274
LMArena Creative Writing10471250
LMArena Multi-Turn10501280
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Llama 2-13B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 30.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 2-13B or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.9 vs 31.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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