Model comparison

Llama 2-13B vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.1

Rank #304 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #259 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-13B scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads 46.9 to 30.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 42.2% for Llama 2-13B and 62.9% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.

Side by side

Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Llama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.131.5
Released2023-07-182024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked3243

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.4 (#287), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32.8 (#256)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding10621293
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.0 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 12.3 (#333), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 21.4 (#197)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10511271
DTBench42.2%62.9%
BIG-Bench Hard58.2%79.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index105.8129.01
HellaSwag80.7%84.8%
PIQA80.8%82.6%
WinoGrande72.8%82.3%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMCA—13.4%
ForecastBench—57.5
LAMBADA76.5%—

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Llama 2-13B: 28.7 (#226), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 18.1 (#281)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Math10651283
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
Omni-MATH—33%
MATH Level 5—63.2%
GSM8K36.9%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Llama 2-13B: 27.5 (#244), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 26.9 (#247)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Expert10301245
ARC (AI2) Challenge60.3%94.5%
MMLU55.6%85.3%
TriviaQA79.6%71.9%
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
Confabulations—19.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
BoolQ82.4%—
OpenBookQA57%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 2-13B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ScienceQA55.8%—

Multilingual Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 26.7 (#274), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.2 (#208)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English10241252
LMArena Chinese10011272
LMArena French10431279
LMArena German10091234
LMArena Japanese8941180
LMArena Korean9531188
LMArena Russian10551264
LMArena Spanish10861255

Instruction Following Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 53.5 (#282), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.7 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10461254
IFEval—80.6%

Long Context Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#264), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#183)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query10641282

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads

Llama 2-13B: 30.0 (#284), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.9 (#210)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 2-13BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text10851269
LMArena Creative Writing10471221
LMArena Multi-Turn10501272
WildBench—80.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 2-13B better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.5 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 2-13B or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 2-13B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-13B has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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