Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Qwen1.5-32B

Llama 2-13B and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-32B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 2-13B leads 27.5 to 13.5.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
Llama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.130.0
Released2023-07-182024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3221

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding10621155
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333), Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts10511131
Chess Puzzles0%—
DTBench42.2%—
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index105.8—
HellaSwag80.7%—
LAMBADA76.5%—
PIQA80.8%—
WinoGrande72.8%—

Math Qwen1.5-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226), Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math10651155
GSM8K36.9%—

Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Expert10301126
MMLU55.6%74.4%
GPQA Diamond—30.7%
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%—
BoolQ82.4%—
OpenBookQA57%—
TriviaQA79.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Qwen1.5-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
ScienceQA55.8%—

Multilingual Qwen1.5-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English10241106
LMArena Chinese10011176
LMArena French10431100
LMArena German10091058
LMArena Japanese8941027
LMArena Korean9531007
LMArena Russian10551073
LMArena Spanish10861089

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282), Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following10461116

Long Context Qwen1.5-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query10641146

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-32B leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text10851137
LMArena Creative Writing10471083
LMArena Multi-Turn10501140

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Llama 2-13B and Qwen1.5-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 2-13B or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (30.4 vs 31.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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