Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.7 to 53.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 61.9% for Llama 4 Maverick.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
Llama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderMetaMeta
Noometry Index29.630.9
Released2023-07-182025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked3254

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Coding10621302
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
WeirdML—24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
ALE-Bench—172.97

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Hard Prompts10511281
DTBench42.2%61.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index106.17132.2
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles0%—
EnigmaEval—0.6%
LMCA—15.9%
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%—
ForecastBench—57.5
HellaSwag80.7%—
LAMBADA76.5%—
PIQA80.8%—
WinoGrande72.8%—

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Math10651299
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%
GSM8K36.9%—

Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Expert10301259
GPQA Diamond—67%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%—
BoolQ82.4%—
MMLU55.6%—
OpenBookQA57%—
TriviaQA79.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
ScienceQA55.8%—
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English10241269
LMArena Chinese10011277
LMArena French10441259
LMArena German10091291
LMArena Japanese8941207
LMArena Korean9531203
LMArena Russian10551286
LMArena Spanish10871293

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following10451267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Too close to call

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query10641280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text10841287
LMArena Creative Writing10471267
LMArena Multi-Turn10501289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-13B or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Llama 2-13B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.9 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Llama 4 Maverick share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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