Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.7

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Llama 2-13B leads 28.7 to 15.3.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Llama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.129.7
Released2023-07-182024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked327

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1062—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles0%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index105.8128.52
LMArena Hard Prompts1051—
DTBench42.2%—
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%—
HellaSwag80.7%—
LAMBADA76.5%—
PIQA80.8%—
WinoGrande72.8%—

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
LMArena Math1065—
MATH Level 5—56.1%
GSM8K36.9%—

Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%
LMArena Expert1030—
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%—
BoolQ82.4%—
MMLU55.6%—
OpenBookQA57%—
TriviaQA79.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ScienceQA55.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1024—
LMArena Chinese1001—
LMArena French1043—
LMArena German1009—
LMArena Japanese894—
LMArena Korean953—
LMArena Russian1055—
LMArena Spanish1086—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1046—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1064—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1085—
LMArena Creative Writing1047—
LMArena Multi-Turn1050—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.1 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 2-13B or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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